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Hi, I'm Angela Price from Eden Condensed, Small Space Garden Design, and this is Garden Space. So, how best to fertilize your roses? There's a lot of different products out there that are good for roses and roses actually need regular fertilizing in order to have optimum bloom. I like to fertilize my roses quarterly, so I you know, set out a calendar and I do them in every three months. And I actually prefer using a time release fertilizer. This one's called Osmocote, but there's other time release fertilizers that are out in the market. And all you have to do is follow the instructions; you put a couple of scoops around the base of your rose bush and scratch it in with your rake. If you have potted roses, then you can just sprinkle a bit here and what will happen is that over the course of the three months, as you water the roses, they will slowly, the little beads will slowly dissolve in and feed the roses the food that they need. Do take the time when you're looking for fertilizer for your roses to pick the appropriate fertilizer. You want to use one that's either meant for roses, a bud and bloom fertilizer which is made specifically for flowering plants. Or, you can use a water soluble fertilizer like Miracle Grow which will also do well for especially greening up the leaves on your roses, but you have to use this a lot more often. The time release fertilizer, you'll want to use quarterly, once every three months. A liquid fertilizer you'll want to use probably every two weeks and a powdered fertilizer usually every six to eight weeks. So, if you don't like the fertilize that much, stick with your time release fertilizer. But, do make sure that you're choosing a fertilizer that's either an all-purpose fertilizer, one that's made for flowers or one that's made for roses specifically. And always fertilize early in the morning or at dusk so that way you don't worry about any burning of the leaves. Rose leaves tend to burn very easily if they get too much water on them or if you get fertilizer on the actual leaves. So, make sure that you're putting your fertilizer around the base of your rose bush here scratching it in, so that way it will get in and start to soak into the soil and then into the roots. If you have any questions about how to fertilize your roses and which fertilizer to use, please contact me at www.edencondensed.com. Thank you very much.