Gardens around the world, growing roses, Northeast New Jersey, tips on how to create your own rose garden, recipe for Blueberry Smash, shopping, fashion
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Sunday Guides, Beginners Guide to Planting a Rose Garden
Cover
Country Mile Gardens
Our Favorite Roses
Garden Cocktails
Gardens to Travel to
Editor’s Letter
Michele Rosenthal. Follow me on Instagram @theparishouse
In this Sunday Guides, we have outlined our tips for planting a rose garden. Starting small & using our step by step guide, we will help you grow the most beautiful roses. We curated our favorite gardens to visit nearby & other favorites to travel to around the world. Our travel sponsor can help you plan an amazing getaway! Our readers are worldwide, so we hope to have something for everyone to enjoy! If you love roses but not gardening, no worries, pack a picnic, take a garden tour, and stop and smell the roses. For our local readers, our new sponsor - Country Mile Gardens, located in the Morristown area - has a beautiful greenhouse, store, and large selection of flowers, trees and more. It is a must visit.
We listed affordable items to add to your garden shed & home! The Winter months are the perfect time to dream of flowers, garden parties, travel, & planning your very own rose garden. The designing & journaling is one of our favorite creative parts. If you are like us & live in a cold part of the world, it gives you something beautiful to dream about on a crisp snowy day. Our team is available to shop with you & help you create your dream rose garden! We also provide tours of the NYC Flower District.
Happy Gardening!
Michele Rosenthal
The Rose
Winter is a wonderful time to begin dreaming up and planning a new garden. It is also a wonderful time to plan any updates to an existing garden. We recommend keeping a garden journal to document all of your ideas, dreams, plans and sketches. In this article we will share our decades long experience creating beautiful rose gardens. We would also like to thank our sponsors for being a part of this Sunday Guides issue!
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
The Rose Garden
We are often asked for tips on caring for, planting, and designing a rose garden. We have been growing roses for 30 years at our historic home in zone 6a Northeast New Jersey
There truly isn’t anything like a beautiful rose. Their sharp thorns are perhaps indicative of what’s to come. Like their thorns, they can torture you a bit with how much care goes into them. Don’t let that discourage you! Gardeners are all too aware these beauties are high maintenance. Yet with all things we love & find fulfilling it is enjoyable & worth the effort.
Once you successfully grow roses in your home garden you will be rewarded with their beauty & scent. Some roses have the most enchanting scent, perfumed fragrance floating through the garden. Others bloom repeatedly if pruned regularly. Then there are the ones that show up for a short time leaving us speechless with their beauty and then, just like that they are gone until next year. Gardeners can feel “both mortal and immortal in their garden” I can understand that sentiment, as the garden needs us as much as we need the garden.
Some favorites Rose are:
Constance Spry by David Austin Roses
Eden
New Dawn
Gertrude Jekyll
Zephrine Drouhin
I could live a million Springs & that would still not be enough time in my Beloved Garden. We grow hundreds of roses in our New Jersey Garden. Follow our tips and you too can successfully have a rose garden.
I don’t take this responsibility lightly, I have a team helping me & we work hard keeping them healthy. We use our gardens for our companies photoshoots etc, so it needs to be “picture perfect” year round!
Beginners Guide To Planting A Rose Garden
In this article we will focus on the “Beginners Guide To Planting A Rose Garden.”
Our garden is situated on 5 acres and requires several people to maintain. So let’s start small here as to not overwhelm.
Before you get started chose a sunny spot and prepare your soil. Clear out grass, debris and weeds.
-Planting - dig hole twice as big as pot, plant at same level - usually those instructions are on every label.
-Dirt - 3 parts good garden soil, 1 part peat, maybe some rose tone, fill hole to top of plant, water in and add more soil after first water cause original soil will settle. *** before planting gently loosen up the root ball so roots can thrive and add a layer of mulch to keep moisture in and weeds away.
-Some plants will be shipped bare root. Typically these are soaked in water before planting. Follow the directions in the box carefully or on the label very carefully
-Make sure to water.
Ten Tips
Choose a sunny location & read the care instructions on your roses
Amend your soil with a rich compost - your garden center can help you with this.
Plant according to the instructions. Give your roses plenty of space.
Feed and water regularly
Spray to prevent black spots, do this in early spring before spots appear!!!
Remove Japanese beetles
Prune all dead canes each spring to prevent disease
Deadhead regularly to encourage healthy roses and encourage more flowers
Visit gardens for inspiration
Educate yourself on the different varieties of roses and their care
Rose Sources We Love
The Paris House Garden, Constance Spry
David Austin Roses
Antique Rose Emporium
Heirloom Roses
Jackson & Perkins
Home Depot
Lowe’s
Local specialty gardens in our area
Supplies
Country Mile Gardens, Morristown, NJ, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart for pruners, shovels, organic sprays, Miracle Grow, garden gloves (get gloves that come up to your elbows to prevent thorns from cutting you)
Various Types of Roses
There are many. We highly recommend reading garden & rose books to learn more.
Floribunda
Hybrid Tea
Climbers
Ramblers
Knockouts
Noisettes
The Paris House Garden, Zephrine Drouhin
The Paris House, Rose Allee
Garden Books & Magazines We Love
The English Roses by David Austin
Flower Magazine
Marther Stewart Gardening
Carolyne Roem
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry
Niagara On The Lake
Niagara Park Botanical Gardens
Pillar and Post garden
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Travel & Visit Gardens
Niagara On The Lake
Botanical Gardens
Gardens in The Cotswolds and throughout England
Giverny
New York Botanical Gardens
The Mount Lenox MA
And many more
Mirbeau Inn & Spa
Paris House Yellow Rose Arbor and Rose Allee
Travel & Visit Gardens
Garnish a mocktail or cocktail with rose petals from your garden. Be sure to only use pesticide free! We make a fresh raspberry/strawberry purée from our gardens as the starting point!
Blueberry Smash Recipe:
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The Paris House, Luxury Lifestyle Brand
The Paris House is your one-stop-shop for travel destinations, unforgettable events, and editorial and personal fashion styling. Their floral arrangements are sourced from New York City’s Flower District and elevate the beauty of your events and hotel rooms. Michele’s international travel show, “The Paris House, Luxury Travel and Lifestyle Show”, is featured in the Paris based “Joie de Vivre Network”.
Whether designing in Rome, Reykjavik, NYC or beyond, Michele is always creating gorgeous moments for her clients and partners. The Paris House’s locations range from elaborate sets at its rooftop studio near NYC, events of all scales across the Northeast, and Michele’s historic New Jersey country home and gardens which has hosted parties, music videos, and photo shoots.
Company founder, Michele Rosenthal, has 30 years of experience and studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Travel and Tourism at Endicott College and holds degrees in Interior Design and Business Marketing. She helped launch a multi million dollar division of Saint Clare’s hospital in the early ‘90s.
Whatever your needs are, our company will make your vision come to life. We are content creators, portfolio builders and memory makers.
Michele is the Editor of Sunday Guides, Luxury Lifestyle & Travel media. https://theparishouse.com/