With their unmistakable grace, their wonderful scent and the rich abundance of flowers, roses are one of the most popular flowers in the world. The following article will tell you how you can turn your garden into a rose paradise.
How do I create a rose garden?
To create a rose garden, you should determine the location and purpose of planting, select suitable rose varieties, design the garden according to the color wheel and plan seating and walkways.
Plan a rose garden
Even in Goethe's time, roses were either white, pink or purple; Today's variety of colors did not yet exist. Modern roses delight with their incredible variety not only of color tones, but also of flower and growth forms. In order to create a harmonious overall picture, precise planning is extremely important.
Selection of rose varieties
There are suitable roses for every garden and almost every location. Therefore, before selecting a specific variety, you should first check the exact conditions in your garden: What is the condition of the soil? In which places there is a lot of sun, in which there is little or only at certain times? In which direction is the garden facing? Where are there protected corners for sensitive rose varieties, and where should rain- and frost-hardy varieties be planted? But it's not just the local conditions that influence the choice of variety, the purpose also plays a major role. For a lush rose hedge, wild or larger shrub roses are suitable; for a colorful rose bed, choose between bed, shrub and noble roses. Standard stems, on the other hand, are better planted as solitary plants in order to fully develop their effect. If possible, choose he althy varieties with the ADR seal (€22.00 on Amazon) to avoid later disappointments.
Planting a rose garden according to the color wheel
Once you have determined the location and purpose of planting and selected suitable rose varieties, you can start thinking about the combination of flower colors. If you follow the color wheel rules when designing your rose garden, you basically can't go wrong.
Harmonic tone-on-tone compilations
Colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel, which contain pigment components from each other, always appear harmonious. Examples of this are pink with purple or yellow with orange. However, for this effect you should only combine warm or cold colors with each other.
Contrasts enliven the picture
Contrasts are more stimulating than tone-on-tone compositions. To do this, you combine so-called complementary colors with each other; these are the colors that lie opposite each other on the color wheel. Beautiful examples are green and red, yellow and violet, blue and orange. You can use warm and cold colors together. Color sounds, on the other hand, are created by combinations of several colors that have the same brightness and color quality. They appear harmonious yet lively, such as violet, yellow and apricot.
Don’t forget: seating and walkways
When planning your garden, don’t forget the seating and walkways! Plan your rose garden so that you can walk through it and be able to access each plant at any time to care for it. Seating does not necessarily only have to be on the terrace. A second seat a little away from the house is ideal, where you can sit in the middle of your roses and enjoy them.
Tip
When selecting rose varieties and their companions, pay attention not only to color and shape, but also to the final height of growth and whether the plant grows more slenderly upright or more bushy.