Resources for Rose Growers

When you become a rose grower, it's vital to know the different rose terms to help you produce beautiful, healthy flowers. If an outside company decides to hire you to provide flowers for its arrangements, you must know how each key word plays a roll in your business. No matter if you own a large commercial rose company or a smaller nursery, if you are not knowledgeable when it comes to roses, your customers will find another business that's up to par.

Sport

A sport is a spontaneous mutation that ultimately creates a new rose. For instance, climbing roses are a sport of bush roses. Other common changes in a sport involve different colors or number of petals.

Black spot

Black spot is a common fungal disease that attacks roses. Small black spots form on the leaves, and the leaves turn yellow and fall from the plant. Black spot tends to occur during warm, humid weather.
University of Maine to learn how to manage and prevent the spread of black spot on roses.

Prune

To prune a rose means to remove woody material from the plant. It's best to prune a rose by removing dead and diseased wood and then selectively trimming the remaining plant to form the shape of the plant.

Propagation

In order to produce new varieties of roses, you may want to use propagation, which involves growing the plants through seeds. Asexual propagation or reproduction occurs when you take the cuttings from a parent plant and create a clone plant.

Deadhead

When you deadhead a rose, you remove the spent or already-bloomed flowers from the plant. This prevents hips from forming. It also encourages the rose to continue producing flowers.

Hips

Hips do not refer to the rose grower but rather the plant. They are the colorful fruit inside the rose flower that is full of vitamin C, although there are certain varieties of roses that do not produce hips. When dried, you can use hips in herbal teas or make them into syrups and jellies.