About to plant 10 hybrid tea roses in their prepared bed

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I have prepared a 55 x 4' bed between my driveway and a new picket fence to be a rose bed. All the resident crabgrass has been removed and some topsoil+compost has been tilled into the native clay soil. Since I have 10 hybrid tea roses maturing at different sizes, I thought I should plant the roses 5.5' apart all the way down the line. About the planting hole---should it be twice the diameter of the rose rootball knocked from the sales pot? Is there anything I should apply in the planting hole before placing the rose bush in it? I won't apply Plant-tone until spring, with winter not that far off now. I want to apply a couple inches of shredded bark mulch over the soil once I tamp it down firmly. Anything else I should do to give my roses a good start? I have quite a variety of colors in this collection. Does anyone have any suggestions about what might look nice as to what order I should plant the roses in? Tallest in the back, progressing to shortest? All the yellows, then all the peaches, then all the pinks? Draw the names of the roses out of a hat?

Here are the roses to be planted by the picket fence in the front yard: Fragrant Cloud, Touch of Class, New Day, Double Delight, Chicago Peace, Love, Strike It Rich, Queen Elizabeth, Julia Child and Sol Desire.

I will be excited to see all these beauties in bloom next summer!

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judijunebugarizonazn8

last year

A random mix can be really pretty and informal! I’d also suggest planting companion plants interspersed among them…something blue, preferably. Blue looks good with any and every color rose, IMO, and plantings around the bases of Hybrid Teas helps to balance everything so you don’t end up with the stark, bare legs look. I don’t know what climate you have, but nepeta does well almost anywhere and of course there’s a salvia for every garden. I’m also a fan of chartreuse foliage and something like Drops of Jupiter Oregano could really shine in there. Besides, many of the salvias, oreganos and nepetas have an herbal smell that discourages pests and varmints and even fungus diseases, so it’s a win-win!

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mmmm12COzone5
last year
I don't know enough to be of any help but it sounds like it is going to be lovely.
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked mmmm12COzone5
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
last year
That’s a great looking space you created, looks like you both did your homework and put in the work. Tilling an entire bed and adding compost is much superior to only putting amendments into the planting hole. I think you’ve done everything right, but if your soil is alkaline I’d also spread some sulfur over the whole bed. I planted beds with all mixed colors, and I think similar colors should not be right next to each other (In other words, Queen Liz, Touch of Class and Chicago Peace should not be all in a row. `It’d be a big grouping of non-matched pinks, which you’d want to avoid). Just let the mixed colors be really mixed. Since your garden is out front, I’d plant Fragrant Cloud and/or Double Delight at the very front, since they are super scented and will make you many friends.
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
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Ya know, ya'll all say that HTs do not bloom well the first year and that Bare Roots do not do well the first year, but man I have not found that to be true. I mean, my potted roses last year were 5 foot tall (many of them) the first season I had them. This year they are already approaching 4 foot and have been pruned pretty tight in Feb. The bare roots I planted this spring, early on, are ALL covered in blooms. The bands I planted in September are also already huge and covered in blooms.....what am I doing that you arent doing or that defies conventional wisdom? OH and they are all in pots which is also not supposed to work. I would try a few but be prepared to add in annuals if needed. I had blooms in my potted HTs from May when I bought my first roses through January last year and all I did was fertilze with the nursery reccomended fertilizer and keep them sprayed (blackspot is a huge problem here) and watered and deadheaded.
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The hybrid teas are usually the long stemmed florist type blooms. BUT that's not a hard and fast rule as it depends a lot on the individual variety of rose. In your zone hybrid teas will generally be more winter tender and will need to be well protected to survive a WI winter but it can be done. And there again there are some varieties that are more winter hardy than others. Some varieties, both hybrid teas and floribundas, that have been hardy for me (even this winter, and remember I'm a zone warmer than you) are: Red Crimson Bouquet, good health for me Veterans' Honor, will black spot Oklahoma, does black spot Mauve Angel Face, always black spots Paradise, fairly good resistance Love Song, good disease resistance for me Peach/Apricot/Orange Sisters at Heart, fairly healthy Tuscan Sun, good resistance for me Granada, will black spot English Sonnet, fairly healthy If you're interested in a yellow my favorite is Julia Child. She's very vigorous and healthy and blooms ALL the time. I make no guarantees about disease resistance because that seems to vary a great deal from place to place. You might want to check out some of the Griffith Buck roses as well as the Canadian Explorers series as these roses were bred for colder climates.
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Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
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Personally, I would put Fragrant Cloud in the center with yellows on either side and Double Delight farthest away on the street curb, although you may have flower thieves helping themselves lol

Nepta and Mystic Spired salvia are great between plants and I toss alysum in the front. It is going to be beautiful . You have a fabous selection of roses
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
Esther-B, Zone 7a
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Thank you all for the suggestions. I'm in suburban Baltimore, zone 7A. It has hot humid summers.

I want to do my rose bed right. Aside from tilling in some good topsoil mixed with wood shavings and leaf shavings to improve the solid red clay soil that's here, do I need to mix in some Plant Tone while tilling? My roses are peach, yellow, deep and medium pink. How would a deep pink or purple gomphrena look scattered between bushes, with maybe some short variety of shasta daisies, dwarf marigolds and dwarf snapdragons?
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
last year
I think the Plant Tone is a good idea, I added a bunch of organic fertilizer myself when I started some new beds this year. It’s wholly organic, so once your soil cools, there won’t be microbial activity that would create available nitrogen to induce a growth spurt at the wrong time.
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
mmmm12COzone5
last year
Love to see pictures when you have it planted. One thing that might be useful is to create a planting plan with colored circles that match the colors of the roses. Then you can move them around until you have a color order that you like.
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked mmmm12COzone5
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
last year
I was thinking about your lay out( I tend to over plan ) and am wondering about different heights of your roses. I know that Fragrant Cloud is a tall one and Double Delight is shorter.

I have tall Fiji next to short Rosematic fuschia and it looks weird
Esther-B, Zone 7a thanked Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
Nippstress Nebraska z5
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Do make sure to cover that soil with something for mulch to avoid weeds moving into that lovely tilled soil. Early in my gardening career i did all the work of double digging a bed but stalled for two weeks or so before planting in it and I had the most spectacular waist high collection of weeds by that point.

Sounds like you have great ideas and it'll be fun to see how it turns out!

Cynthia

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