Rose Gardens require large amounts of water. Even in areas where rainfall is considered plentiful, occasional watering will usually be beneficial. A regular irrigation program is necessary to produce good
I became a rose gardener by talking too much. I declared within earshot of a lifelong rose grower and hybridizer that roses were difficult, picky, and hard to care for,
Summary: Climbing roses are effective where many other plants are not. Some are valuable for covering walls; others are ideal subjects for training on posts. Is there a climbing rose
Spring pruning of established roses is always a gamble. If you prune too early, late spring frosts can kill all the canes. If you prune too late, some of the
Believe it or not, caring for garden roses needs “pruning” all summer. You probably have accomplished many of these described tasks but not called them “pruning.” If the essential jobs
I buy budded roses for the same reason you do, it is the only kind offered for sale by the nurseries. That is not to say l do it because
The first step in planting a rose garden in Arizona, Kentucky, or anywhere else is carefully selecting the plants. After deciding on the varieties, you’re going to grow (and how
The disease of roses “crown gall” has often been cited as one of the most insistent rose diseases. It appears as rough, knobby, tuberlike growths either above or below ground
What my busy family likes most about floribundas is that they are practically as easy to grow and to maintain, in our southern Michigan landscape as common hardy shrubs. Actually,
Blood lily, botanically named Scadoxus multiflorus (ska-DOKS-us mul-tih-FLOR-us), is a bulbous herb belonging to the genus Scadoxus and from the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It’s formerly known as Haemanthus multiflorus, initially