How to Plant Roses- Drainage

Great Drainage ensures your roses don't drown and bloom all season.

If it takes more than an hour for the hole to drain, you and your rose have a challenge. You want a whole that drains because a rose, like us, can't breath when it is under water.

If its roots are submerged in water for extended periods of time, a rose will die or, best case, struggle for some time, then succumb to pest or disease and then die.

If you have a drainage problem you have a couple of options-- dig a bigger whole and fill it will as much loose gravel as it takes to get it to drain, OR (and this is my favorite) listen to the environment and find another location.



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