The 2 Minute Gardener

Monday, May 7, 2012

Gardening Tip - Feeding Roses

Roses can be pigs. They just love to be fed. To get a prize winning pig, you need to feed it the good stuff. Roses are the same. To get great roses, you need great food. The best rose food available in San Diego is Ada Perry’s Magic Formula. This food is only available at Walter Andersen Nurseries in Point Loma and Poway. Ada Perry’s Magic Formula is made up of blood meal, gypsum, epsom salts, bone meal and other micronutrients. In others words, it is a terrific stew for making your roses happy. One twenty pound bag will feed about 30 roses. Each rose gets 2 cups in January and 2 cups in July and always water your roses thoroughly before feeding.

Photo - Floribunda Rose 'Tuscan Sun'

This is a wonderful multicolor floribunda.

Photo by Doug Kalal

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Do You Love Roses?

Then you will want to come to the 2012 San Diego Rose Show on Mother's Day weekend and see over a thousand of your favorite rose blooms. Also on hand will be consulting rosarians to answer your questions about growing great roses. The show will be held May 12-13 at the Scottish Rite Center, 1895 Camino Del Rio South in Mission Valley. It will be open from noon to 5pm on Saturday the 12th and 9am to 4pm on Sunday the 13th. Tickets are are just $5 each, with children under 18 free. Tickets may be purchased at the door or at www.sdrosesociety.org .