After seeing the enticing roses pictured on the cover and the pages of our Home Garden Guide to Roses, have you decided to grow at least a few rose bushes in your garden this year? Or have you always admired roses but refrained from growing them because you thought it was difficult? Roses are not … Read more
The time for planting roses in spring varies according to the section of the country in which you live. In the middle Atlantic and New England States, this should be done just as soon as the ground can be worked even though heavy killing frosts may follow directly after planting. These do no harm to … Read more
You don’t have to be an expert to grow roses. Witness the showers of brilliant blooms often seen hugging the walls of an Old World cottage. Roses belong to history and the storied gardens of ancient castles. They also belong in your garden and mine, where they lend an air of beauty equaled by few … Read more
Growing roses for the exhibition is an exceedingly fascinating hobby. The blue ribbon winners in the show take something more than average care— pruning, feeding, dusting, and spraying keeps the process from being entirely “a bed of roses.” The use of antibiotics in feeding roses makes the competition in rose shows more complex every year. … Read more
Southward from our location in the far north province of Saskatchewan, tender roses of the hybrid tea, floribunda, and other classes are often filled up with earth for winter protection. Here in the North, the method does not function well, and we have worked out alternative, more reliable methods. Tins raise the question of whether … Read more
In ancient days, it was common for home gardeners to plant hardy shrub roses like Harison’s Yellow, eglantine, moss, cabbage, the hundred-leaved rose, and many others in their dooryards where they flourished and bloomed year after year with little attention. As a result of this practice, these grown roses have come to be known as … Read more
Every year, from spring until fall, our garden is visited by rose lovers from all parts of the country. They come singly, and they come in groups, small groups, and large groups. Some stay only a few minutes, some stay for hours, and some stay for days. And all of them, I think, ask questions. … Read more
“Of all flowers, me thinks a rose is best,” said Emilia in Two Noble Kinsmen. This has been man’s sentiment since he first began to garden. The rose has a variety of colors, scents, forms, and landscape value for any taste. No other plant gives more pleasure. Yet most gardeners know only modern hybrid teas, … Read more
The history of roses begins far in the past. Dried specimens have been found in Egyptian tombs. Roses are mentioned in the oldest known writings. Fossilized remnants dug in Oregon prove that a rose bloomed 50 million years ago. Native rose species grow throughout the United States and in many foreign countries. What comes to … Read more
The quality and the quantity of the roses you will enjoy next June are determined largely by what you do with your shrub rose bushes during the next few weeks. If drought or neglect has left your bushes in poor condition, your effort to bring them back to normal should begin now. Even bushes in … Read more