Whether you are choosing yellow roses, red roses, or English Rose flowers, here are some helpful Gardening tips for planting a rose in a container. Come spring time you will see lots of rose buds!
Before planting, remove roses from their packaging and soak the roots in water for ~24 hours to refresh them after travel and packaging. Pulp Pot Roses are similar to Bare Root plants, and they are easier to plant.
Use a container that can fit a hole twice the width and 1.5 times the depth of the pot.
Mix potting soil for roses and starter fertilizer, and backfill a layer of this mixture in the hole. The starter fertilizer will give our native soil the necessary phosphorus it needs right at the root level, which will help the rose plant to produce beautiful blooms in the spring.
Scour or slit the bottom and sides of the compostable pulp pot.
Place the pulp pot in the planting hole. You can make a mound of the soil in the bottom of the hole to raise or lower the pot to match the soil level inside the pot. Ensure none of the pot is showing above ground – the fiber material will wick moisture out of the soil if exposed to air.
Fill around the pot with more soil mixture. Be sure the graft of the rose is above the soil level.
Use leftover soil to create a basin around the plant to retain water.
Soak the root area with water to settle the roots into the planting space.
After planting with starter fertilizer, roses will only need fertilizer again once you see 2 inches of new growth.