​Love Your Roses? Treat Them To the Best Garden Hand Tools From Frostproof!

What is it that people love so much about roses? Is it the great beauty? The incredible variety? Perhaps it’s the distinctive scent that’s hard to match? Part of it has to be that they keep coming back again year after year so you can enjoy them without having to replant again and again.

No matter the reason, roses can be found in the yards of hundreds of thousands of homes across the country. And if you truly love your roses, you want to make sure that you’re treating them properly. After all, you don’t want a bad cut to lead to infection or a bad budding to invite disease. Here’s how to keep your roses healthy and enjoy them as much as possible.

Budding

One of the joys of roses is that you can take a healthy plant and make it diverse by grafting roses buds from other rose plants onto it. This is a great way to get that variety we talked about earlier, only now you’re getting it on a single plant!

Budding is easy, and is made even more easy when you use the right equipment. The first thing you’ll need is a knife that’s perfectly designed for rose budding, and that’s the rose budding knife from Tina. It’s perfectly balanced in the hand and stays sharp longer, giving a perfect cut so that you’re not accidentally harming the plant as you perform the budding. Also, don’t forget the grafting tape, which holds the host plant and the scion together while also expanding so that you’re not restricting the transfer of water and nutrients.

Sharp Clippers

One reason that so many of us enjoy growing roses is so we can clip the blooms and take them inside to enjoy. Not only that, but we want our rose bushes to grow as strong as possible, and that often includes pruning them. While these processes can be beneficial to the plant, it’s also important to remember that you’re technically damaging it.

That’s why you want to make sure that the cuts are as clean as possible. Poor cuts with dull pruners can lead to cracked and torn stems, which can cause fungal and bacterial infections, as well as be an invitation to pests that can’t normally bother your roses when they’re healthy.

When you’re looking for garden hand tools that will cause the least amount of damage to your roses as possible, Frostproof Growers Supply has them. We have the best in anvil pruners, bypass pruners, ratchet pruners, and pruner snips to give you clean cuts every time.

De-Thorner

When you think about it, roses are kind of an odd choice to associate with love. After all, what does something that’s so beautiful yet can hurt you have to do with OH WAIT now we get it! Clever...very clever.

Well, while love sometimes hurts, wouldn’t it be nice if the roses didn’t have to? After all, once you get them in the house or give them to a friend, you want to make sure that fingers are left unpricked. That’s where this Barnel thorn stripper comes in. All you have to do is place the prongs on either side of the stems and pull. Voila, no more thorns and leaves!

Frost Protection

Why not keep your roses around for as long as possible? Our plant covers can keep your roses warm as you get closer to winter, meaning that you can enjoy the blossoms even more days of the year!

Here are Frostproof Growers Supply, we love flowers, and roses in particular. We want to help you make the most of your rose bushes, no matter how many you have!