Know Your Roses: 5 Popular Roses Types, Culture and Uses
Everyone loves roses, but it’s easier to love them than to understand their classification! And so when the beginning rose fancier sets out to choose plants for their garden, they
Everyone loves roses, but it’s easier to love them than to understand their classification! And so when the beginning rose fancier sets out to choose plants for their garden, they
Looking for a barrier hedge or a screen planting, for a decorative way to divide garden areas, or for colorful plants to define a path or drive Roses can solve
Your roses can be beautiful right up to frost if you maintain constant vigilance with a spraying or dusting program. How well you keep the foliage and stems protected from
In addition to the highly cultivated and often finicky hybrid tea roses, which are so generally prized for the rose garden, many free-growing types are particularly suitable for effective planting
To find the sweetbrier (Rosa eglanteria), the favorite rose of Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare — and a galaxy of other English poets in the rugged granite country of our southeastern
The next time someone gives you a rose, don’t throw it away after the petals have fallen. Instead, stick it in the ground in a shaded spot, cover it with
September is the last month for heavy rose feeding. Feeding now will stimulate new growth for bloom next month. The exhibitor who expects to enter October rose shows will need
Would you like to grow a miniature rose in your window garden this winter? A delightful replica of a regular rose bush with perfectly formed, fragrant flowers? Of course, you would!
Our old garden had garnered, over 15 years, a nice casual collection of 55 hybrid tea roses and a half dozen climbers. Then we moved and left them all behind.
Today’s rose gardens sparkle with color and vigor. Their long-stemmed beauties spring from thickly branched, well-foliaged plants, and each season sees many additions to the list of novelties from which