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• Steps
• Tips
• What do you need

If you purchased a bare-rooted rose from a nursery or garden center, it is important to know how to plant it in a way that creates good growth conditions. Nurseries purchase bare-rooted rose bushes from a grower who has already taken care to cut the roots to accommodate the plant in a planting container; This article contains instructions for planting a rose in your chosen container.

Steps

1. 1 At the time of purchase, check the following signs that the plant should have:
   • Fresh fluffed roots
   • Juicy top
2. 2 If the bare-rooted rose is dry, soak it before planting. Place it in a bucket of water for a few hours.
3. 3 Prepare the pot. Choose a pot that is the right size. Cover the drain holes with broken terracotta pieces or small pebbles.
4. 4 Fill the pot halfway with a potting mixture that is suitable for roses. Make a small hill for the rose bush.
5. 5 Place the bare-rooted rose bush in the pot. Make sure the grafting site is at the same level as the edges of the pot: the bare-rooted rose is trimmed so that it is half the height of the pot when the grafting site is at the edge of the pot. If the grafting site and the roots of your rose are not arranged in this way, then your pot is too large or too small.
6. 6 Gently spread the roots all over the inside of the pot so that they cascade down the hill.
7. 7 Add some more potting mixture to the pot and finish forming the soil around the root system. Continue filling the rest of the pot with the mixture so that the soil level is 2 to 3 cm above the edges.
8. 8 Place the pot in a tub of water to allow it to soak up the water from the bottom.

Tips

• The potting mixture should be suitable for growing roses and contain fertilized granules that dissolve as slowly as possible in water.
• The "grafting site" is where the shoots grow from.

What do you need

• Rose bush with bare roots
• Suitable container for plant size
• Rose-Suitable Potted Mix
• Gardening gloves (optional)