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Tips for Growing Knock Out Roses
12.06.2023 - 00:59 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
Tips for Growing Knock Out Roses Rosa ‘Knock Out’While David Austin may have set the standard for modern rose growers, Knock Out roses totally changed the landscape.
Those of you who remember gardens in the ‘80s know that roses had fallen out of favor. People saw them (justifiably, sometimes) as fussy, difficult, and ridiculously tender.
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You’d be most likely to find them in your grandma’s garden, and unless she was a talented or dedicated gardener, the shrubs were usually covered in aphids and powdery mildew.
Most of them bloomed once for a short time and then needed deadheading to return the next year. Until they came back, you had a fairly boring plant that didn’t add much to the yard.
Then, along came Knock Outs. Suddenly, people who couldn’t grow a rose to save their life could have big, beautiful plants that bloomed all summer long and needed hardly any maintenance.
It’s hard to overstate how much of an impact this line of cultivars has had on the modern rose market.
If you are looking to grow one in your yard or you’re just curious about where they came from and what sets them apart, this guide has you covered.
Here’s everything we’re going to chat about:
Are you ready to become a Knock Out expert? Let’s jump right into the plant’s fascinating history.
Where Did Knock Outs Come From?Many of the roses we know and love today were bred by horticulturalists or scientists. But what are arguably some of the most successful of all time were bred by a hobbyist with no technical training.
Will Radler fell in love with roses while reading a Jackson & Perkins catalog in the 1950s.
At just nine years old, he was cognizant of
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