Tagawa Gardens Roses

For 28 years Tagawa's has carried some of the finest roses, providing the best blooming plants available to grow in our metro area. This is the place where you can discover unusual as well as the newest varieties of roses ready for your garden!

Looking for an introduction to the New Roses for 2010? Ask for Lynn, our Rose Department Supervisor and Certified Colorado Nursery Professional. She will be happy to give you information on the new roses for this year.  

Lynn and her staff, will take care of your rose needs for our 2010 season. Visit with Lynn and her rose staff about all of your rose bush concerns and questions on varieties.

Click Here for our 2010 Rose List (Please note that availability is not guaranteed, this list is provided as a general overview and not an availability list for any given time.)

 

Bailey's Nursery Easy Elegance Series®

Paint the Town Garden Path Series® Clusters of red hybrid tea-shaped blooms that carpet this rose from head to foot.Glossy, dark green foliage highlights the flower effect all season long. Even spreading-to-mounded habit is well suited to container gardening.Highly disease-resistant.

Pink Gnome Garden Path Series® Pink Gnome rose, Rosa 'BAIpome' (PP16,602), as the name suggests, is a tough rose that is small and compact, with a wonderfully tight, round habit. Pink buds open to delightful, light pink, cup-shaped flowers with white centers. Highly disease-resistant.

Sunrise Sunset Garden Path Series® Stunning blend, with bright fuchsia-pink petals, blending to apricot neat the centers. Blue-green foliage is disease-resistant on this everblooming shrub rose. Its dense, spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover and is also well suited to mass plantings.

My Hero Lifestyle Garden Series ® Self-cleaning rose that has bright red blooms, which turn to deep pink as they mature. Massive displays and continuous blooms are quite attractive against the satiny, light-green foliage. The My Hero rose has good resistance to blackspot and mildew and is crown hardy.

Grandma's Blessing Garden Art Series® Resembles a hybrid tea with large, full, dusty-pink blossoms. This beauty is so sweet it is named after Margaret ‘Grandma’ Bailey. Grandma’s Blessing has a symmetrical, vase-shaped form and dark-green, disease-resistant foliage. Stunning color combines beautifully with many perennials and also makes an elegant low hedge.

Kiss Me Garden Art Series® One of the most fragrant roses in the Easy Elegance Collection. Kiss Me bears clusters of large, double, clear pink blooms, reminiscent of English roses. It flowers all season, and is especially attractive in the perennial border. The highly disease-resistant foliage adds to its appeal as a cut flower.

Click here for a complete list of our over 200 varieties of roses

This list is for the convenience of our visitors living in Denver and the surrounding metro area. We are unable to deliver our roses outside the southeastern Denver Metro area or out of the country.

Our availability changes by the hour, so please use this list for reference only.

Our Specialties Include:

• The current AARS winners

Over 200 varieties of roses

• Own-root English roses
• Winter hardy roses- Canadian and Shrub
• Hybrid Teas, Floribundas and Grandifloras
• Popular Climbing roses
• Hedge, Groundcover and Miniature roses
• Unique, own-root roses
• Tree roses
• Rugosa and Species roses

Rose care tips under water conservation

Roses like Hybrid Tea, Floribundas and English should be grouped together in their own garden bed- not placed randomly in you landscape. These beds should first be amended with compost, aged manure, DRIED grass, leaf material or a combination of all.

A bed that is mainly clay soil, these amendments improve air circulation in the soil, drainage, root development and speeds up absorption. Prepare at a rate of one part amendment to two parts clay soil and only be concerned with the top 6-8”.

A fast draining sandy bed needs compost at a one to one ratio to help retain moisture and improve fertility. Use only compost and aged manure in the sandy soil bed. If possible, prep the beds in the fall for a more thorough mingling of compost and soil.

By planting the graft of the rose 3” below the soil line in Colorado, we add protection from our change of season temperature fluctuations. Grouping roses together with similar moisture requirements helps you direct your water to where it really needs to be and spares the other, drought tolerant areas of the landscape from needless, frequent watering. If at all possible, place in a location where they will benefit from all morning sun followed by afternoon shade to slow moisture consumption and evaporation. The grouping technique should also be applied to perennials, flowering shrubs and annuals.

Add shredded or small chipped mulch to a depth of 3-4”. This aids in moisture retention and reduces the frequency of watering. It also improves the soil environment for good root system development. However, as the mulch breaks down, it may “tie up” or block the available nitrogen in the soil (a growth promoting nutrient). If increasingly yellowing of the new leaf material is noticed AND it is not due to incorrect watering practices, then it can be countered with a fertilizer high in nitrogen and low in phosphate and potassium. Use with caution as too much nitrogen can burn the roots if the concentration is too high for the moisture content of the area.

Alternatives to the mulch are low growing, drought tolerant shrubs and perennial ground covers. Contact your local garden center or county extension office to help you explore you options. Using drip irrigation, a soaker hose or a watering needle helps conserve water by channeling moisture directly to rose roots. If using a drip system or a soaker hose, apply moisture slower than the rate of run off while watering in a series of cycles often enough to moisten the top 4” of soil. Some drip systems can dispense water fairly quickly so observe how long it takes your system to do so and let this be a guide on how long to water the area.

To improve watering efficiency, bury the soaker hose under 3-4” of mulch. A watering needle is another efficient and more direct way to water wisely. Insert the needle no more than 4” into the soil and leave on in one spot for no LONGER than 1 minute in any one spot. Insert in areas outlining the plants branching diameter and apply 2-3 insertions for each rose bush depending upon its size. The plant will tell you when to water again when its youngest leaves show signs of limpness. Roses planted together should be watered as a group, not individually. Using the methods above can allow early evening watering so that moisture lingers in the soil longer to our plants benefit.

Consider incorporating hard working, beautiful roses like ‘Knock Out’, the ‘Morden’ roses or  the ‘Flower carpet’ roses for durability, garden bed filler plants, borders or hedge plantings. After establishment, these and other shrub roses become fabulous, durable plants that come in a great array of colors, sizes and fragrances. Some even offer super fall color and rose hip display.

TAGAWA’S TOP 10 ASKED ROSE QUESTIONS FOR  WINTER            

       

 

1. How late can I plant new roses?
   Mid to late October for the Denver Metro area is the recommended cut off point. More opened areas and higher elevations should consider early to mid September as the end of rose planting season.

7. What kind of mulching material is suitable for covering roses?

Soil, dried tree leaves, chipped or shredded bark, dried grass clippings, top soil or a combination of any of these is suitable rose mounding material. What is not suitable are the dried rose leaves. We want to remove the danger of hidden diseases or insects getting an early start on weakening the roses for next year.

8. Can my potted, patio roses over winter outside?

Colorado’s dry winter season can pose serious freeze damage to a root system that is above the soil line. Although it is possible with shrub, groundcover and miniature roses, it is not recommended that roses over winter in outdoor pots. The best options are to plant the roses in the landscape to properly over winter or move the potted plant into the garage for protection and dormancy sake. Remember to water 1 to 2 times a month during this time.

9. Can tree roses be brought indoors to flower over the winter?

Like potted patio roses, they need the protection but coldness of the garage for the winter. In Colorado, they cannot be planted outdoors in an upright position for the winter because of the temperature sensitive graft just below the crown area. This acts like an exposed root system subjected to freeze damage that would result in the death of the crown. After they have experienced a cold spell that induces dormancy, plant in a pot (if not already in one) and place in a naturally lit area of the garage or a protected, southern, outside area against your home. Make sure it gets watered 2 times a month during the winter.

10. How can I protect my climbing rose for the winter?

Mound the crown of the climbing rose 12-18” high with mulching material mentioned in question 7. Additionally, spray the longer canes with an anti-desiccant product such as ‘Wilt Pruf’ to help conserve their internal moisture and increase their over wintering success.