Growing Roses

Winter is a good time to think about roses, for we usually order some early in spring, and the earlier, the better, providing the ground is suitable.  So let’s think a little about some kinds of rose we can enjoy. There are many we like, have tried and found they only stayed with us for … Read more

No garden is complete without roses. I have 80 – hybrid tea roses, some climbers, and some Polyanthus roses, and I try to add a few new ones each year to my collection. Cutting A Slip When cutting a slip, I pick a woody one or cut a piece of mallet shape off the old … Read more

Rose enthusiasts are increasing astonishingly in numbers and knowledge. Beginners and experienced gardeners decorate their grounds using hybrid teas and floribundas.  Where and how to place them for full effectiveness combined with successful rose culture is a problem that always calls for study, often for ingenuity. Most Attractive Rose Setting Culturally, roses thrive only in … Read more

Hybrid tea roses need not go half dormant during July and August. They are benefited by being kept in full growth. They are more attractive, too, because they can and do bloom during this period. Under the old system, the plants were pruned rather severely right after the June bloom, and any buds which formed … Read more

More and more gardeners are discovering the value of growing shrubs and roses. Requiring a minimum of care, they lend themselves readily for hedges, as specimen plants, in shrubbery borders, or for use in a naturalistic setting. In addition, shrub roses are particularly vigorous, hardy, disease-resistant plants. Many produce striking flowers; others bear attractive fruits. … Read more

Few plants will give you the satisfaction that roses will, both in the garden and the house. But like anything worthwhile, roses demand little care and attention, even during summer. Growing roses you can be proud of will be your reward if you follow simple rules. Watering Water throughout the growing season whenever the ground … Read more

Gardeners in our area are becoming more and more rose-conscious. Roses have been grown and cherished in America since the early pioneers grew them from slips and carried them westward to furnish beauty to their new surroundings. Roses have had some schooling for many years, but they have been to college in the last 20 … Read more

Sloping down from the leafy seclusion of my Summer house, where I am writing, my new rose garden blooms gayly as a catalog page, though to an unimaginative eye, it appears as only an expanse of ground corn cobs. Yet, I see roses, for, in October, I shall begin to plant after a year of … Read more

Just outside the quaint New England town of Little Compton, Rhode Island, are the Brownell Rose Research Gardens. For more than 35 years, Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Brownell have bred better roses for home gardens, emphasizing winter hardiness. From the start, one factor was regarded as prime importance – a resistance to extremely low … Read more