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Show Use rose fence to enhance home property If you'd like to add a fashionable fash-ionable touch to your home property, plant an everbloom-ing everbloom-ing rose fence Everblooming roses have two heavy blooming bloom-ing periods, one in the spring or early summer and the other in the fall, usually with many flowers and lavish color in' between be-tween these seasons. The modern rose blooms for an extraordinarily long period every year, longer than almost any flower that can be named. The rose fence can be particularly par-ticularly lovely and fashionable fashion-able and it requires only a moderate amount of care. One can have red, orange, white, pink, yellow, lavender and in-between in-between shades. Roses of different dif-ferent colors may be mixed, or the fence may be solid with one color. In planting your rose fence, select varieties wisely. Climbing Climb-ing red roses along a white fence can afford a brilliant contrast. Other colors may also be used. Climbing roses may be preferable pref-erable where they have such support as a masonry wall or wood or wire fence. Thick-growing Thick-growing rose plants such as Rosa Multiflora are not suitable suit-able as a rose fence for small homes. Floribunda and grandiflora roses will grow into a living fence of striking color without with-out support. Plant them close together, about . two feet apart, using approximately 50 plants for a hundred foot fence. Your nurseryman can recommend varieties to grow to any desired height. A fence of roses growing on a trellis also can form a lovely background for the family swimming pool, at the same time giving privacy. The rose blooms are reflected in the water of the pool, making it even more inviting. According to the American Association of Nurserymen, some interesting effects are created with rose fences by planting them in short lengths 10 to 12 feet, at several locations loca-tions around the property. If correctly done this can give the effect of greater depth to the back yard, or garden living liv-ing area, even though the latter lat-ter may, in fact, be quite small. Your nurseryman can adivse how to achieve this effect. - - |