r/flowergardening

Help! What do I need to do to prevent these from floppy from the weight of the flowers? I did a heavy pruning last year after this happened for the first time but it’s still happening. Do I just need to do a hard prune in the fall? How do I make the stems stronger? There is way too many bushes to use stakes.

My 14ft monster only has one flower that follows the sun.

A new favorite for sure!

It opens as a yellow rose, then the edges turn light purple, the middle of the petals becomes white, but the core remains yellow. An interesting rose, and also highly fragrant.

I bought these shrub roses from a local nursery about two months ago. They are planted in full sun in my garden. Our soil is pretty heavy on clay but the side areas drain well. We are currently in a drought and I've been trying to keep everyone watered but it's difficult. I have two roses planted near each other and both are turning yellow from their inner leaves, but both pictures are of the worst looking bush.

They were fed with a slow release food upon planting and top dressed with compost. I'm new to roses and clearly am failing these ones somehow. How can I help them?

I got a clipping of this around May, immediately planted it and it’s done pretty well throughout the summer! It’s in mostly sun, partial shade. I’ve had some gorgeous blossoms from it! Only recently has it started to droop and grow on the floor so I had to stake them up as you can see in the photo. Another worry is the color. It’s like greenish and browned edges. I’m not sure if it’s just end of season and this is normal for it. I live in southern Michigan for zone reference.

Came across this...couple of bees on it too...any idea🤔

We also had a bunch of lotus flowers but our dogs decided to declare war on them and completely obliterated them!!