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 likely will run into considerable confusion. The purpose of the “old graphics” below is to distinguish the more popular types of roses, list some of … Read more
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 any of these landscape problems. But which roses should you use? Barrier “Hedge” Roses Barrier hedge roses produce impenetrable growth, grow tall, and flower continuously … Read more
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 September to frost may well determine how old man winter treats your roses, plus the number and quality of blooms you get next year. Spots … Read more
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 in the wild garden, in shrubbery borders, in hedges, and as specimen plants. The wild or species roses have a charm and elegance in the … Read more
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 Ozarks was an experience quite as delightful as it was surprising. Find it we did with all its fragrance and red berries — apparently as … Read more
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 a glass jar and keep it watered. It may reward you with a plant. Rose Propagation Through Cuttings Propagating roses from cuttings is not at … Read more
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 to get ready now. If liquid fertilizer is used, soak the soil before and allow one pint of solution per plant. Do not use a … Read more
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! Who wouldn’t? But wait! How do you rate yourself as a gardener? Does philodendron thrive for you? If you can answer “yes,” then proceed to … Read more
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. We were in the new place for seven years without planting or growing a single rose. Suddenly last year we had to have roses and … Read more
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 to choose. Perhaps the patent tag with which so many of our newest roses are hung may lead to the belief that they are turned … Read more