Master these few care essentials for roses, and any variety will bloom abundantly

Entering July, with the summer heat blazing, are you still worried about having no flowers to admire? Although the peak season for roses has passed, you can still catch the last train now. Master a few key points, and you too can have the "Farewell My Concubine" among roses, with summer blooms still blooming like crazy.

Almost everyone thinks that in summer roses go dormant, that even growing is difficult, let alone blooming, so of course fertilizing is unnecessary too. Actually, this is wrong. Maybe high temperatures will make roses go dormant, but if high temperatures combine with high humidity, plus breathable soil and sufficient water, roses will not only fail to go dormant, but will also bloom continuously with vivid flower colors.

If there is only high-temperature weather, roses will of course go dormant, but when it rains, roses instead start growing well again, because after rain the soil moisture increases, the environmental humidity increases, and it also cools things down, thus increasing the possibility for roses to absorb nutrients, breaking the dormant state of roses, and letting roses bloom like crazy in summer too.

After entering summer, roses that are growing normally all need appropriate fertilizing. You can use relatively dilute fertilizer, with a relatively rich and balanced content of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, with various organic matter, minerals and amino acids added, to promote root absorption in roses, break the dormant state, and keep blooming vigorously as usual.

However, with summer's high temperatures, be cautious about bringing in new seedlings, be cautious about changing potting soil, and be cautious about diseased or pest-infested seedlings becoming further infected. If the potting soil has already become compacted, do not rush to change it either; the root system will be damaged, and with summer's high temperatures it is relatively hard to recover.

In summer, if cared for properly, roses will not go dormant. Generally it is in winter that they mostly go dormant. Summer dormancy in roses is a kind of self-protection triggered by high-temperature conditions, that is, false dormancy. As long as fertilizer and water are appropriate and the temperature is suitable, roses can grow again and bloom in a bursting pot.