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Helpful hints on starting a rose garden
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Q: One of my friends has a backyard just full of rose bushes. I would love to have roses in my garden but don’t know how to choose or where to plant. Can you give me some hints? A: Perhaps first of all we should look at site selection because that is important. Roses need six hours of sunlight or more each day. It would also be nice, according to Doug Welsh, Extension Horticulturist, to have an east facing site so that the foliage will dry quickly from the morning dew. The third guideline he suggests is to plant in...