7. You should avoid the white plastic cones when doing your winter protection because they trap too much heat during the winter thaw. They are also quite unattractive.
8. You should feed your roses water often, but lightly. When you water your roses, avoid directly watering the foliage because it will cause fungal diseases. You should water the roses at the roots.
9. Keep the area around your roses cleared to prevent them from getting locked in an area that doesn’t provide enough circulation.

You should never fertilize plants that are heat or water stressed. Water stressed plants that grow under a lot of heat will cause leaf and bud burn.
You want a steady temperature of approximately 70-80 degrees because your plants will get the most nutrients that are available to the plants. During the growing season, you can give the plants a water soluble fertilizer
every two weeks.

Bouquets
This is the most usually used  ways of give roses as a gift. Rose bq’s look wonderful in every colour when they’re mix with another Spanish moss and an additional green leaf plant. Is’s an special and cheap gift that goes with any occasion.

Potpourri

Potpourri is a lovely and simple way to get all of the great joys out of a rose, without having to do all of the upkeep that goes along with giving fresh roses. Turning roses into potpourri is a simple and rewarding process that gives off a delicious fragrance that lasts for weeks.
All you have to do is follow the air dry technique that is listed in this manual. Once the roses are dried, simply take the blooms and separate them. You can put the shreds in a nice porcelain container, or a sealed piece of hosiery.Dried rose bouquets are beautiful and last as long as you want them to. All you have to do for this is to follow the sanding method for drying your roses, and plant them in a makeshift pot. You can mix your roses with dried green, fresh or fake moss and any other dried flower that you would like to use in your arrangement. It is an economical and fragrant gift to give anyone. You can also ask your local garden center professional which types of clear sprays you can use to give your
flowers a glossy look.
Candied Roses
You do not necessarily have to use completely fresh or dried roses alone in making up the perfect gift. You can mix real roses with candied or chocolate roses to add to the originality of your gift. It is a delicious way to let someone know that you care about them.

Here a brief list of cold climate roses. Naturally, there are many more, but to list them all would make up the entirety of this guide. The cold climate roses are as follows:
· Rugosas
· Griffith Buck
· Modern Roses
· Centrifolias
· Species Roses
· Gallica
· Alba
· Shrub Roses
These are just some of the cold climate roses that will thrive during the harsh winters of some localities. If you live in an area that is prone to harsh winters, you may want to see if your local garden center has any of these to start with

Air Drying
Air drying is by far the easiest and cheapest method of drying flowers including roses. It is simple; all you have to do is follow these simple instructions.
1. Start with perfect and unflawed roses on their stems. If the roses are not in perfect condition, they will wither and the
petals will fall off.
2. Remove any leaves that may be on the branches.
3. Bunch them up together in a manner that lets them fan out.
4. Tie the bottom with string or a rubber band.
5. Hang them upside down in a dark, dry place for two to three weeks to be certain that they are completely dry.

Sand Drying
1. Start by picking the roses that are in perfect condition. They shouldn’t have any dew on them and the stems should be dry as well.
2. You can reinforce the stems and blossom with either white glue or florist wire.
3. For florist wire, you will want to cut off most of the stem. Leave about one inch of stem.
4. Push about 3 inches of wire through the stem and rightthrough the flower head.
5. Next, you want to bend the end of the wire into a hook over each rose head and pull it down. This helps to keep the head secured to the stem.
6. When choosing to use the glue, begin by diluting the glue in a dab of water.
7. You will take a toothpick and dab a thin coat of the glue mixture at the base of each petal.
8. Next, you will work the glue into the base of the stems of each flower so that you can attach each petal to the base, wait till the glue dries completely
9. Now for the sand, slowly and carefully cover the flowers with sand in deep open boxes.
10. Make the sand in the box deep enough to hold the flowers upright.

Try this recipe for the greatest spring start to your roses.

Be certain to apply in the early spring after you have removed any of the necessary winter protection that you put up.
Here is a list of the ingredients that you will need to make this mixture. You should mix them in a 5 gallon tub or bucket.

• l 2 cups of alfalfa meal
• l 2 cups of Epsom salt
• l 2 cups of fish meal
• l 2 cups of gypsum
• l 2 cups of greensand
• l 1 cup of bone meal

1. You will first have to pull back the mulch that has been placed around your rose bush.

2. You will next, want to work one cup of this tonic into the top inch ofsoil if you have a smaller bush.

3. You will do best to use a trowel or a hand cultivator for larger bushes.(that would be bushes that are 6 feet or taller) For these sizes, youwill need to use three or four cups.4. Now you will have to replace the mulch and water your roses very well.Tip #1: You can do this again in the middle of June if you want to keepyour roses blooming. Just scratch 2 cups of the mixture into the soil.Tip #2: You should wear a dust mask while you are mixing your ingredientsfor the tonic.