{"id":2282,"date":"2009-04-02T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/wordpress\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2009-04-02T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T13:54:58","slug":"around-the-garden-getting-ready-for-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2009\/04\/gardens-and-collections\/around-the-garden-getting-ready-for-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Garden: Getting Ready for Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/images\/wordpress\/jessicablohm.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/td>\n<td><em><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Jessica Blohm is Interpretive Specialist for Public Education.<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a title=\"Peter staking roses by NYBG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/newyorkbotanicalgarden\/3402632494\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3596\/3402632494_5dba107ae5_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPeter Kukielski, Curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, stakes and prunes this tree-form shrub rose named <em>Rosa<\/em> Home Run&trade;. 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.<br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n<a title=\"getting ready for roses by NYBG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/newyorkbotanicalgarden\/3401825481\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3649\/3401825481_24c8b6c05d_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><a title=\"getting ready for roses by NYBG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/newyorkbotanicalgarden\/3401825237\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3569\/3401825237_2afe32c0c3_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nGardeners Ken Molinari, top, and Jonathan Riggers prepare the beds for planting David Austin roses in a new English border&mdash;just one of many new additions to the Rose Garden this year in an effort to make the\u00a0collection more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/wordpress\/?p=1877\">disease-resistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&trade;. 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&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2009\/04\/gardens-and-collections\/around-the-garden-getting-ready-for-roses\/\" title=\"ReadAround the Garden: Getting Ready for Roses\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"btn btn-info\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/button><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[63,60],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}