Growing Roses

The two roses in my garden that most often hold the attention of rose lovers or other visitors are the dainty beauties Rosa rouletti and the blended-color polyantha called Baby

The spring gardening season calls for the planting of rose bushes. You may want to replace old bushes or add to the plants already in your garden.  You may be

A few warm days in March and early April and our rose-hungry souls hurry over anxious hands to the clippers. Out we go to start pruning, which will create new

Would you like to grow roses with a minimum of care?  Roses in my north Louisiana are evergreen and bloom 10 months of the year. Roses with foliage in spring

For cheerful splashes of color from early June until frost, no plant excels the modern floribunda rose.  These versatile plants fit into any garden design, formal or informal, and lend

A rose that has been very commonly grown in the “blizzard zone” of the Canadian and American Midwest is the Banshee rose. Banshee is unusually hardy for a rose of

About 1830, Colonel Roulet found an exceedingly small rose growing in a pot on the windowsill of a Swiss cottage.  The Colonel immediately informed a friend, the botanist M. Henri

Few rose lovers realize how versatile shrub roses can be. The value and use of the popular bedding type roses are well known, but other members of the rose family

Why old-fashioned roses?  The answer will not be found in a catalog of names or repetitious advice on planting and priming, all essential for happy shrubbery roses.  We suggest, instead,