PLANT SEEDS: Fall / Cold Stratify PLANT HEIGHT: 36 - 48” PLANT SPACING: 24 - 36” BLOOM TIME: Late Spring - Fall (Repeat Bloomer) HARDINESS ZONE: 2 - 11 LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average QUANTITY: 5 Seeds OTHER: What is a garden without roses ...PLANT SEEDS: Fall / Cold Stratify PLANT HEIGHT: 36 - 48” PLANT SPACING: 24 - 36” BLOOM TIME: Late Spring - Fall (Repeat Bloomer) HARDINESS ZONE: 2 - 11 LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average QUANTITY: 5 Seeds OTHER: What is a garden without roses? Their lovely very fragrant double blooms will delight you all season long! Roses make an excellent cut flower and these large blooms will last for up to 2 weeks once cut. They are also a popular dried flower. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to give your friends or family a beautiful bouquet of roses cut from your very own garden? About the Rainbow Rose - Rainbow Roses are created, they do not grow naturally in rainbow patterns & require human assistance to achieve this look.
Although there are many seed sellers that would like you to believe that their seeds will grow multicolored roses, it is simply is not true. There is no such thing. Now that I have broken your heart, let me give you the good news.
All of the lovely photos you see of these roses are real, and the roses can be made (with your help) to grow like this! The technique used for dying flowers has actually been around for over 1000 years and is used on other flowers such as chrysanthemums, carnations, & hydrangeas. The method exploits the rose's natural processes by which water is drawn up the stem. By splitting the stem and dipping each part in a different colored water, the colors are drawn into the petals resulting in a multicolored rose.
There are special types of roses that are used in this dying process. Specific species absorb the colors much more easily, quickly, and completely than others. The roses must be white in order for the dyed colors to appear as they do on the petals once they are dyed.