The question of spring and fall planting of dormant roses is often asked and is among the most controversial. I have practically ceased to regard rose planting as divided into separate camps – spring versus fall, wherever you may live, reserving the right to recommend the time according to the place. Rose Varieties Varieties also … Read more
Roses are an all-season crop – the most continuous one in the flower dome. Perhaps for this reason, many gardeners assume that roses can wait if other jobs are pressing when it comes to early spring chores. Consequently, the early attention roses should receive often gets put off from weekend to weekend. If you want … Read more
I gladly accede to the request of your editor to write a short essay on the subject of roses, for I know, full well, that if I am successful in stimulating present or new interest in rose growing, my time will have been well spent. Gardening of any kind, from the growing of vegetables to … Read more
How many roses did you lose last winter? How many more are borderline cases—weak looking and with a lot of die-back when you start to prune them, but still with a bit of life left so that as you go over them you decide to let them remain, on the slim chance that they may … Read more
There is an increasing interest in rose shows and, therefore, in timing techniques or methods that enable gardeners to grow flowers in perfect condition for exhibition. Our method of growing roses for this purpose is good but is not guaranteed. Nothing in the growing of roses can be “guaranteed” except the inevitable bugs and blight. … Read more
Here’s how simple it is to plant and successfully grow roses. Plant Location Any location which receives sunlight at least half of the day (or in which annuals, perennials, or vegetables have been successfully grown) can be made to grow good roses. In selecting a location for the rose garden, choose one that will receive … Read more
Roses don’t have to be grown in rose beds. They can be grown anywhere in the garden where they’ll get at least five hours of full sunshine a day, and they can be used for just about any kind of garden effect you may think of. That’s what makes roses such incomparably wonderful garden plants. … Read more
Spring is the time to plant roses, and the climbers are among those to set out. Every garden, no matter how small or large, has room for a few plants which require little space and not too much care. Climbing roses may be grown for screening or ornamental purposes. For example, they can be trained … Read more
If you are not a present devotee of the rose, now is the time to become one. No need here to go into the qualities that make this flower a favorite. Its popularity bespeaks its many virtues. Of late, the traditional manner of growing roses in special beds (still the easiest way to take care … Read more
On one of his visits to America, the late rose hybridizer Francis Meilland remarked that the American does not use and grow roses nearly so extensively as he should. Seldom are the different rose types used as borders, edgings, screens, hedges, entrance plantings, or for masses of color with evergreens and shrubs in residence plantings. … Read more