Tips to design an English rose garden in your apartment society

Who would not like to have a lush space filled with fragrant and colorful roses in their apartment garden? Roses are known for their versatility among the garden plants as well as for their economical way to increase the value of the property and their evergreen beauty.

However, creating an English rose garden in your apartment will let you to beautify your apartment space and express your personality. Plants like the ramblers and high Victorian roses along with floribundas and hybrid teas can be used to create an English rose garden. Here are some ideas to make your own English rose garden:

Select the area:

Choose an area to cultivate your English rose garden and evaluate the space based on the rose breed. Decide if you have enough space for climbing roses, ramblers, rose trees or bush plants. If you do not have enough space, you can opt for smaller ground species or ground cover roses.

Select companion plants:

Decide on what type of companion plants would you like to cultivate along with your English rose garden. Do not forget to keep space for the companion plants which can be chosen based on their foliage, flower color, fragrance and benefits.

Garden structure:

Garden structures should be built on a permanent basis like a stone or a brick wall along with garden beds and water fountains. An English rose garden should have designs made up of gravel or brick which can create a sharp geometric planting area. Also one can have informal designs to incorporate curved pathways and planting borders along with graceful fences.

Select roses:

Ensure that you cultivate roses which suite the climate and limit the amount of maintenance required. Avoid cultivating any sort of plant during the summer season as excess heat will not let a plant thrive.

It is important that you cultivate the plants in an area where your roses can get appropriate amount of sunlight.

Testing your soil allows you to cultivate your English rose garden in a healthy manner with the appropriate set of companion plants.

While selecting roses for your English garden:

Ensure that you choose the roses based on their height, colour and fragrance. If you wish to cultivate strongly scented roses, plant them near patios and porches.

You can also train the ramblers/climbing roses against the garden walls or pillars to create the charm of an English rose garden.

To make your English rose garden more attractive, you can plant colorful roses like the Graham Thomas which can produce bright yellow double blooms in every corner of your garden.

You can plant breeds like hybrid tea and floribunda in the entrance areas and driveways. You can hide their gangly stems behind short box hedges used in formal English rose gardens.

If you wish to create an arch in your garden, you can cultivate the ramblers like salmon-pink Albernite roses which can raise colour above eye level and create an English rose garden feel.

Few rose breeds which can be cultivated in your garden are;

Grandiflora

Hybrid tea

Miniature roses

Bourbon

Hybrid perpetual

Centifolia

Moss

Alba