Guaranteed Growth and Variety
Beautiful roses begin with good care — and good care becomes much easier when you know what your roses need and when they need it.
Our Rose Care Guides bring together practical experience from Famous Roses with established horticultural principles to help you plant, grow and care for your roses with confidence.
From planting a new rose to preparing an established garden for winter, these guides are designed to give you clear advice without unnecessary complication.
New to growing roses?
Start with our Rose Planting Guide. Once your rose is established, return here throughout the year for watering, seasonal care, pruning, feeding and practical growing advice.
Practical, step-by-step advice for the most important stages of growing and caring for your roses.
Give your new rose the best possible start with our step-by-step planting advice.
Learn how to prepare the planting position, place the rose correctly, water after planting and help the roots establish successfully.
Useful for:
Bare-root roses · Potted roses · New plantings
Good watering is one of the foundations of healthy, vigorous roses.
Learn how deeply to water, how watering needs change through the season, how to care for newly planted roses and why light rainfall may not always reach the roots.
Useful for:
New roses · Established roses · Seasonal watering
Help your roses finish the growing season well and enter winter in the best possible condition.
Learn when to stop feeding, how to manage watering and pruning, what to do with diseased leaves, and when additional winter protection is needed.
Useful for:
Autumn care · Winter preparation · European climates
Some situations need more specific advice than the general planting guide. These focused guides cover particular conditions and help you adapt the basic planting principles to your garden.
Summer planting needs a little more attention. Learn how to acclimatise a rose after delivery, keep the root ball protected, water correctly and decide whether conditions are suitable for planting.
The guide also explains how summer planting and aftercare differ across mild Atlantic, continental, Mediterranean, northern European and mountain climates.
Useful for:
Summer planting · Potted roses · Hot weather · European climates
These two guides answer different questions: first, what your rose should look like when it arrives; then, the practical steps to take once you open the parcel.
Roses can look very different depending on their delivery format and the time of year.
Learn what is normal for bare-root and potted roses, why plants may arrive dormant or shortened, and how their appearance changes through the growing season.
Useful for:
Seasonal appearance · Bare-root roses · Potted roses · Delivery expectations
Your roses have arrived — now make sure they recover from transport and are prepared correctly for planting.
Follow the first-hour checklist, then see the appropriate next steps for bare-root or potted roses, including watering, temporary storage and planting.
Useful for:
First-hour care · Transport recovery · Bare-root roses · Potted roses
We are building a practical library covering the questions rose growers ask us most often, so you can return to one trusted place throughout the growing year.
Our care guidance is written for rose growers across Europe. Where climate changes the recommended timing or level of protection, our guides explain those differences clearly.
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