Around the Garden: Getting Ready for Roses

Jessica Blohm is Interpretive Specialist for Public Education.


Peter Kukielski, Curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, stakes and prunes this tree-form shrub rose named Rosa Home Run™. Spring is the time Peter cuts back the dead wood to promote flower production. This rose begins producing beautiful red roses in June and continues to bloom all summer long.



Gardeners Ken Molinari, top, and Jonathan Riggers prepare the beds for planting David Austin roses in a new English border—just one of many new additions to the Rose Garden this year in an effort to make the collection more disease-resistant.

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  1. keewee says:
    April 2 2009, at 10:15 am

    I have been wanting to get out and feed my roses, but it has been raining these past three days. Soon I hope, soon.

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