ENROL NOW

Roses

Course CodeBHT231
Fee CodeS2
Duration (approx)100 hours
QualificationTo obtain formal documentation the optional exam(s) must be completed which will incur an additional fee of £30. Alternatively, a letter of completion may be requested.

Grow Roses for Pleasure or Profit

  • Grow better roses at home
  • Start a rose nursery
  • Grow cut flower roses

This rose course is suited to the professional as well as the amateur grower.

 

START BY UNDERSTANDING THE ROSE FAMILY

Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

  1. Introduction - identification & classification (modern and species roses are considered).
  2. Culture - pruning, nutrition, pests & diseases, planting, watering, etc.
  3. Propagation - seed, cuttings, layering, budding & grafting, etc.
  4. Hybrid Teas and Floribundas.
  5. Old World Roses.
  6. Climbers, Miniatures, Standards & Weepers.
  7. Using Roses - cut flowers, tubs, hydroponics.
  8. Special Assignment.

Aims

  • Distinguish between characteristic plant features in order to identify different types of roses.
  • Determine cultural practices for growing roses in different situations.
  • Perform all operations associated with pruning roses.
  • Distinguish between the culture of different types of roses, including hybrid teas, floribundas and species rose groups.
  • Plan the establishment of a rose garden.
  • Plan the production of a commercial rose crop.

What You Will Do

  • Distinguish between the morphology of different groups of roses.
  • Compile a resource collection of thirty contacts to assist with identification of roses.
  • Prepare a collection of 32 photographs or illustrations of rose varieties.
  • determine how to grow roses in your locality, detailing:
  • soil preparation
    • planting
    • fertilising
    • staking
    • watering in
    • Describe how to propagate roses, using various techniques including:
    • Grafting
    • Budding
    • Layering
    • Seed
    • Identify the pests and diseases afflicting rose plants.
  • Differentiate between the culture and use in the garden of different types of roses, including:
    • climbers
    • miniatures
    • standards
    • bush roses
    • Differentiate between the culture of roses in a greenhouse, and in the open ground.
  • Distinguish between the pruning of climbing, ramblers, bush, miniature and standard roses,
  • Compare the culture and application of Hybrid Teas, Floribundas and Polyanthas in a garden or nursery visited by you.
  • Determine appropriate rose varieties to be included in a proposed rose garden, in accordance with given
    • specifications.
  • Prepare a plan for a rose garden including:
    • Scale drawings
    • Plant lists
    • A materials list
    • Cost estimates.
    • Develop criteria for selecting rose varieties to grow as a commercial crop, for a specified purpose.
  • Evaluate rose flowers offered for sale.
  • Determine factors which are critical to the production of various rose products, such as:
    • Cut flower roses
    • Rose hip syrup
    • Rose oil
    • Dried rose petals
    • Nursery stock roses.

Did You Know?

  • Roses are the most widely grown commercial cut flower in some parts of the world.
  • There are varieties of rose that are grown successfully across climates as varied as Singapore and Scandinavia
  • Many of the worlds commercially cultivated roses are grown in greenhouses or in hydroponics.
  • Roses are grown as an oil producing crop for the perfume industry?
  • Roses are one of the most purchased types of plants in garden centres across countries like Australia and the UK?
  • Some roses are weeds (even banned) in some parts of the world.

What Are the Different Types of Roses?

Roses have been cultivated since as early as 2000 years BC (in China).  Modern roses have largely originated as hybrids of the species roses which have been grown for centuries. Until 1975 the popular modern rose with the conical type flower was referred to as a Hybrid Tea.  Hybrid teas are now called Large Flowered Roses by the experts. Floribundas (until 1975) were roses which were produced as a hybrid between miniature roses (ie. true polyanthas) with larger flowering roses.  Floribundas are now called Cluster Flowered Roses by the experts.  'Hybrid Tea' and 'Floribunda' are still commonly used terms though.

Modern Garden Roses

  • Climbing types (Recurrent and Non Recurrent Flowering)
  • Climber (with stiff stems)
  • Miniature
  • Pillar
  • Rambler (with lax stems)

Non Climbing types (Recurrent and Non recurrent Flowering Types)

• Cluster Flowered bush (Floribunda)
• Grandiflora (an American term not widely used elsewhere)
• Miniature
• Large Flowered bush (Hybrid Tea)
• Recurrent flowering shrub (various sizes and forms)

Old World Roses/Species Roses

  • Climbing
  • Climbing Tea
  • Noisette

Ramblers
• Multiflora
• Sempervirens (wild rose)
• Wichuriana (wild rose)

Non-Climbing
• Alba   tall and white
• Bourbon   flowers normally large, leaves glossy
• China   usually small, compact and twiggy growth
• Damask   open bushes/diverse group
• Gallica   very prickly
• Hybrid Perpetual   similar to modern roses but better leaf cover
• Portland
• Sweet Briar
• Tea   resulted from crosses with Rosa gigantea

The English Roses
An important modern classification - these roses have extraordinary favour with the buying public. They are old world roses crossed with modern roses (mainly by the breeder David Austin).

 

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?

  • Commercial Growers
  • Horticulturists
  • Florists
  • Cut flower growers
  • Nurserymen
  • Interior plantscapers
  • Home gardeners
  • Plant enthusiasts

 

  

 

HOW TO ENROL

 

Click box below on left hand side - follow instructions.

 

 

IF YOU NEED ADVICE - click here to use our FREE ADVISORY SERVICE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More from ACS