How to Plant a Rose at Home // Bare Root & Potted
In this video I am going to show you how to plant a rose at home bare root potted. Planting a rose at home is easy. Roses are very forgiving but you do need to offer them a few basics for them to thrive in your garden. Getting them off to a good start when oplanting your rose is important. I'll take you step buy step through planting bare root roses and potted roses, either in the ground or in containers.
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When pruning be sure to cut just above an outward facing bud. This way the new growth spreads outward instead of crowding the inside of the plant
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So beautiful! I love that you planted pinks and whites in your cottage garden. I am also glad you explained the planting of dry roots. Hydrating roots are important.
Hi Brian, I am so glad you are expanding out and including videos on flowers. Love to learn so new every day. 💚
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So glad you said Rose's are hard to kill, it's a misconception many, including myself, had about Rose's. But safe to say 4 years working in David Austin, if the roots are there the flowers should follow :)
Great tips! I am waiting for my bare root David Austin roses to get delivered so this was perfect timing. 💐
OMG...I hope you gave the Gertrude Jekyll some room! Galloping Gertie puts out astonishing 10' canes when she's happy. And if you want a spectacular bloom, try the "self-pegging" technique of pulling a long cane back down to the bush and attaching it. The entire arc of cane will put out a new floral shoot at every leaf joint on the upper edge of the arc. It's gorgeous! My other two favorites are Abraham Darby, a peach color, and Graham Thomas, a lovely yellow. Both very vigorous, so if you have room elsewhere where those colors will work, try them!
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Wow! Yes definitely going to do the training 💯
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Hi Brian, I enjoyed watching your video. I have had roses in the past; however, the Deer have destroyed my garden over the years. They eat things that deer are not supposed to like. I live in NE Pennsylvania in a heavy shale area. Planting in native soil is impossible so when I do plant, I purchase mushroom soil from one of the local nurseries. My home's front and rear yards are sloped so I have an erosion problem. Additionally, I don't get much sun so it not the best for most plants. 🙄 I have cut back on what I plant over the years. I really like learning about plants and gardening from your informative videos. Best wishes in your new homestead. I am looking forward to seeing your beautiful roses. Funny note, I belong to a garden club. 🤫
Love seeing all the different roses you are planting, especially the David Austin’s. I always dig my holes twice as big as needed, and deeper, and line them with wire cages. Before that I lost them to gophers! I have rerooted a couple and saved them, then replanted in the cages. Keep an eye on them, hopefully the gophers won’t find them, but they can take them out very quickly.
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All of my David Austin's got gopher cages. I wasn't going to chance it 👍🏼
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I love the joy in your voice. I know the joy a pet gives.
Wow those are going to be beautiful in the cottage garden! Can’t wait to see the colors!
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You will love those David Austin roses!!!! So beautiful! Lovely dried, too. Looking forward to seeing your roses bloom and your journey with your cottage garden 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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Again you are an inspiration. Looking forward to companion plants for the rose. I'll check your book on that too. I've got time , it's only 20 degrees outside with snow and freezing rain in the forecast. ❄ Think Spring 🌹
Thanks Dave, I was only yesterday telling my love that we need to repace three bush roses an one climber, she is old now, my love, older than me, but she so loved her roses, i try to take care of them for her but I’m not that good at it, not like she was. I don’t know why.
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You got beautiful roses, Brian! Can wait to find out about companion plants, since I didn't unpack yet and don't have your book handy.🤗🤗
I love my David Austin roses
Gorgeous selection of roses❤❤ We are going to love watching them Thrive❤❤❤
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Love your tutorials.
I have loved roses my entire life. Floribunda are my favorites....Over the years I moved away from Hybrids and GrandiFlora. I dont have time for anything that blooms once !
Aww wollerton old hall. You skipped on lady of shalot! They're the most disease resistant and prolific. I have so many cuttings that grew so big from my main rose. And I gave some away to families and friends.
I love the climbing roses!
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I love most flowers, except roses. Not sure what it is, but the smell from roses gives me a headache borderline migraine. I admire them from a distance & plant my lollies, dianthus, marigolds and milkweed. Anyway, watching you planting flowers gives me hope for spring! I know my garden is somewhere under the 3 ft of snow we have in SD.
my favorite climbing rose is Pierre de Ronsard - I planted it some weeks ago - first time planting a bare root rose- and it is doing fine - fingers crossed
Great advice and demos. Thanks, as always!! 👏🌹
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Those roses you picked are beautiful 😍 I live in an apartment so I can't grow roses but I'll admire yours and learn too cause I love learning new things.
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I started growing roses in pots in an apartment in MN 40 years ago. I knew very little other than to keep the soil moist and give them as much sun as possible. MN has very little light in the winter so I supplemented with a fluorescent light. They survived and bloomed a little all winter long. We were broke newlyweds and I couldn't afford to buy my lovely bride roses in the winter. This was a good solution. I now have over 20 bushes which produce hundreds, maybe even thousands of blooms every year.
Gertrude Jekyll is a lovely rose. I have one in my garden in the UK. It has a beautiful scent.
I bought a DA rose a couple of years back that was on its own root, no graft. It was literally a stick and looked very unpromising, but it has grown well, though it was slow at first. I have several DA roses and other hybrid teas. None of them get full sun, so they tend to get kind of leggy, but a pruning in summer keeps them good. They don't bloom as much as they might, in fuller sun, but they do bloom.
Greetings from TRInidad and tobago in the Caribbean tropical
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Watching u veideo now bro I love roses
Thanks Brian.❄️💚🙃
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I've been growing David Austin and other roses for years in my zone 5b Canadian garden. I bury the graft union about 2in. below ground. They have been healthy and survived our cold, windy winters.
Thank you for this video. I live in the same zone as your garden and I planted a potted rose that did not survive. After watching your video I found the mistakes I made in the planting hole. Thank you for your videos!
Perfect timing! I just planted my first bare root rose yesterday. It is Francis Meilland
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I had a Jens Munk rose from the Canadian Explorer series that looks a lot like your Perfume Breeze. Loved it, but left it when we moved, and now can’t find one to buy! Fortunately, the new owners will let me come get some cuttings. It smells wonderful, blooms all summer, grows in partial shade, has great hips in the fall and can stand our -30 F winter.
I'm in zone 9A and David Austin Roses can only handle our morning sun. Olivia Austin survives our brutal heat just fine.
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I am so glad you are sharing this! I ordered David Austin’s Generous Gardener climbing roses to train over my Southern porch. I haven’t had roses in a decade and need to brush up.
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I planted 10 bare root roses last month (zoon 9b) and just bought a Rio Samba (orange/red) potted rose today 😁 I call it my Sun Devil/ASU ROSE 😁 I like the idea by the ckn coop 🤔
Gruss an taplitz is my favourite rose
Lol, I have Gertrude Jexkyll and Austin but my favorite is the discontinued Evylyn.
Awesome! Can’t wait. Maybe you can teach us how to do rose cuttings too one day. I am very interested in this topic- roses and flowers in general
Thank You for sharing your passion. Greetings from the UK.
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My favorites are Double Delight. Two color blooms with wonderful scent. Actually, the only roses that lasted several years even though I had no idea what I was doing. Most others don't make it to start or come back next year. Double Delight were hard to find and very pricey, so I may not try again until I have raised the planting bed for them. Good work Brian.
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Crown Princess Margareta & Vanessa Bell. I was a novice gardener in the early 90’s when I planted a dozen or so roses. Eventually they all came out and I told myself never again. Until last Fall when I got sucked into David Austin’s catalog… They arrived very small with barely dime-sized leaves. I planted them in 12” ceramic pots and put them in the greenhouse in November where they continued to grow. When Margareta started blooming in December I thought uh oh maybe I should be letting them experience winter? So they have been doing well to take a few chilly frosts into the low 20’s near the front porch. Vanessa Bell is still tiny, spindly and slow but Margareta doesn’t have a clue it’s winter. The buds are tiny with open bloom of maybe only an inch-and-a half. I know I should be removing buds but my curiosity has the best of me. Neither dropped any leaves and have continued to put on growth 🤷🏻♀️so I am somewhat confused and will be looking forward to some rose care videos.
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Impressive David Austin collection. Kinda jealous I’m not gonna lie. However I’ll enjoy yours until I can find a good area for my own.
Anything David Austin are my favorite! However I only have one . This is its third year and it is a climber and hoping it’s growing more to climb this year! I do have a cattle panel arbor for it ❤❤❤
I love DA Roses! I have jubilee celebration in a pot. The most fragrant rose I have and just full of blooms through the growing season. I bought Neptune's Harvest Roses for my tomatoes per one of your videos but ended up using for the roses too. Our roses perk right up during the stress of the summer heat. I alternate with a granular rose every month during growing season.
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Graham Thomas is my favorite DA rose! Have you checked out The Antique Rose Emporium in Texas? It's amazing! I have several of their Rose's in my garden and they do not disappoint! Thanks for a great video!
Good to know
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Are you doing OK? You are not getting snow where you are? I wish you and your garden to do well ♥
Above or Below the graft point... THAT is my new question. The extreme changes in recent weather are making me wonder if I should change my gardening style on this subject. I'm in Central Texas, where we USED TO only have slight freezes, and then maybe one deeper freeze, or small ice storm, once every few years. I had both roses & citrus that were grafted, and planted them with the graft point above ground level. They always grew beautifully! Of coarse, I had to protect the citrus during the occasional cold spell. It was no big deal protecting them for such short periods. (Like a day, or 2.) And I always planted my graft point ABOVE the soil line. For decades this has worked great! But now... Everything is different. Everything with the weather has been different these past 3 Winters & 2 Summers, with the 3rd El Ninò Summer in a row coming up... First, there was the infamous Snowmageddon in Feb 2021. (Yep, let's just all roll our eyes in unison right here.) That shocker of a Winter was followed by a super rainy Summer with our normal hot temperatures & humidity (high temps around 103°F). That much rain in the Summer is just unheard of around here! Any Rosemary who somehow survived the Winter was definitely now dying from being too wet. It was soooo hot & humid, I was starting to feel like I was living in a rain forest! Complete with rain forest mosquitos. Now, I'm not complaining about the rain, nope, far from it! When you live in Texas, it's against the law to complain about any kind of rain! So even tho that weekly Summer rain was weird, it was good, bcuz it DID help the plants and trees which survived "The crazy Winter" to grow nicely again. (I was talking about Snowmageddon again, I promise, that's the last time I bring it up!) Next came a Winter with deep, super cold storms, and the drought started in the previous Fall. We used to have Winter & Spring as our "rainy season", but that seems to be over too. The Winter storms were odd in the way that they somehow seemed colder than what the thermometer registered. And the death of plants that normally can take cold temperatures confirmed that theory. The coldness was sneaky. And somehow colder. I wondered if it too was wearing a mask to avoid the pandemic... The following Summer, record high temperatures of 113°F not only came early - in JUNE - but it lasted for WEEKS!! Still no rain to speak of. That's when I was feeling like I lived in the West Texas desert. Like, for real. Hot & dry, I kept expecting to see the tumbleweeds rolling by any minute. Fall & Winter came, but still barely any rain for us. This brings us to now, with a very warm Winter season. Which is not so odd for us, and we really like it that way! But this has been the weirdest February I've ever seen here! February is usually our coldest month, with March bringing nice 70°F days. And I've been here for 30 years. It's generally been very cold in February. Which is not all that unusual either, except... This last week we had a very warm front, or should I say, HOT FRONT, move in! The first day it was 95°F, and the next day it was 105°F !! 105° in February is just bizarre!! Luckily, the humidity was low, so it was strangely bearable. Now it's back to "normal" 60° & 70°F days. I mean, what the _!!! And the plants are all very confused too! All that weather talk has EVERYTHING to do with the question of the day with my roses & citrus... Naturally, those that did make it thru Snowmageddon, did NOT make it thru the last giant ice storm which was the heaviest amount of ice I've ever seen, even when I lived up in North Texas! (Oops, I said Snowmageddon again! Sorry!!) But this year it wasn't snow that gave us a problem, it was ice. Most every Oak & Cedar tree had major damage bcuz of the amount of ice weighing them down. To say woodchips are plentiful right now is an understatement! So now, I'm trying to plan for these super cold Winters. And super scorching hot Summers. And when it comes to HOW DEEP to bury the crown on a grafted plant, I'm now wondering if planting the graft UNDER the soil line will be a better strategy for surviving these super cold temperatures? Isn't that what cold zone gardeners do? I'm always seeing Monty Don do that... Yes, I realize when burying the graft UNDER the soil line the root stalk could easily grow shoots. But I can easily prune those off. What to do... What to do?
I just planted 4 bare root roses 2 days ago. One climber and 3 hybrid Teas. Now in is raining like the dickens!!! I hope they don’t drowned! I have grown roses for many years but I am looking forward to all of your advise in the coming year.
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I gave up on roses after realizing I just didn't have enough sun in my yard for them to grow successfully. I can't wait to see yours though! :)
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We had a (almost) dead juniper in the parking area. It's Arizona, so shade is golden. We planted a yellow Lady Banks rose at the base and it grew up into the tree. However, watering the rose revived the tree... it's still beautiful but not as much rose as I had imagined.
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I have a coral Tropicana that blooms all Summer and is 20 years old. I just got last year a white John F Kennedy, a Chrysler Red and a yellow I forgot the name. Raining so not going out to look at tag. Lol. I have a red and a white miniature rose also. The Tropicana is in ground. The others are in containers for now.
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I love my Gertrude Jekyll rose - so fragrant. Do dry the petals as the rose is ready to drop!!! 💖 Looking forward to seeing how your roses thrive!!!
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If you want a really high scented climing rose, get an Iceberg, it's one of the most scented roses I have. I have others too, I have a hedge of Young Lycidas, everyone want's cuttings of this. I have another hedge that I hate 'Susan Williams Ellis' it may not make the cut this year, I'm not impressed with it. It's far too thorny and the blooms are far from beautiful. Maybe a replacement is needed, perhaps some daphne, but it's too sunny there for it... thinking cap on. One thing I have noticed... I'm seeing some reverting from my David Austin Roses. I'm seeing some pink ones on my Young Lycidas and the Susan Williams ones, they were planted with the graft above the soil. I'm too old and infirm to investigate it, but you need to look into this.
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Beautiful x 1000 😍
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I had an Issac maderia but it died I have a small variegated rose that I plant an sell also need to buy more
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Really interested in companion planting to reduce black spot and mildew. Have been using need oil with limited results. I really need some help.
I have many varieties of Heirloom roses own root roses... They don't have a graft to protect or rootstock to take over the rose. I purchased them last year for the first time and hoping they survive the extreme cold we got this winter.
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Wow, you described that so well for people. That's how I like planting roses. Great information.
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is "graft union" the same as the "crown"? also my roses were mailed to me , im in Arizona and our weather has been snow and in the low 30's. So its too cold outside I soaked it and then filled the bucket with soil.and have it in the house. will that suffice till it warms up?
I had a white rose on the corner of the building that did not go through this nightmare. If I left the roses alone along the porch they would eventually begin growing back. After a few years of this they were black and looking dead more then alive. Everytime it rained. I finally pulled them out. I love roses broke my heart.
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I bought a kiwi,pomegranate and fig tree is there anything special I should do when planting them?
I am planting a fragrant Rose garden with Marigolds.
I know this is kind off-topic. But I need a solution for fire ants in my garden area!! Any good suggestions on how to get rid of them and not just move them place to place safely without ruining my plants and vegetables!!!
I unfortunately killed several barefoot roses because i have what is called "Sugar sand". New to Texas soil, Help!
Thank You and another informative video. So now for the dumb question of the day. Last Spring we planted a bare root rose. Looked good for a couple of months and then died. So we want to replace the dead rose. I had read and never to plant a rose where a rose has died. What is your thought and/or knowledge about such and Thank You!
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Left one thing out Brian what about your Gopher problem??? I did not see any wire cage for the plant roots.
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Yes all of the David Austin's got gopher cages.
Can I ask does this work the same for bare root fruit trees, sorry if you've already covered that, fab vlog Brian can't wait to see the flowers 🥰
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Sort of. I did a video on fruit trees a couple weeks ago though
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Have a lovely peace rose to plant in a pot can you comment on about whether I can plant where a rose has been before ?
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I know this isn’t a rose question but … I did the aspirin advice on my tomatoes. It was like I poured acid on them. I did it two weeks before & was ok. Could I have used too much in the mix? There melted! Help!
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I never had issues with planting roses. I had the most beautiful 2 toned roses in front of my porch. They grew so gorgeous. Then suddenly everytime it rained all the leaves and flowers would turn black and fall off. I asked experts and friends and no one could tell me why.
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You guys ok over there? What’s with the blizzard warnings???
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@@NextLevelGardening The weather is something else this year. It’s unusually hot here for southeast Texas in February. I have lettuce bolting! 🤷♀️
I've tried, spent so much I gave up..
Great information! I live in south Alabama and have a rose that I planted underneath a pecan tree in our backyard. Woah….. 🫤 now I know why it’s never grown more than about a foot tall after 5 years!! I give it rose “food” and have fought “spotted leaf 🍃 disease” for the last 2 years & to no avail!! I just told my boyfriend today that I wanted to dig it up and move it somewhere else but I didn’t know where. And then… it wasn’t 15 min. and I get notification with this rose video!! So, THANK YOU!! Do you have any advice on how to make the “spotted leaf disease go away??? Or a video? 😊
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There is a 3 in 1 spray you can buy for spotted leaf. It’s in a white spray bottle. Also, make sure you pull any yellowed leaves and don’t let any gather under the plant. Make sure there is plenty of air circulating around the stems and leaves so they can dry out. Also helps prevent the mold.