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 Doll or Tip Top. Both are hardy, appealing in color, form, and size, easily grown, and not difficult to increase by cuttings. Rosa Rouletti Rosa … Read more
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 new homeowner and are planning a new garden entirely. Whatever the case, there are tried and proven steps that lead to successful rose growth. … Read more
The King is dead! Long live the King! The old phrase just about sums up the present situation (if you will pardon the mixed gender) concerning the “Queen of Flowers,” the rose. No matter what transpires, roses are the most popular plants among gardeners and the uninformed public. Within this broad classification, however, there are … Read more
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 growth. Or perhaps we cannot wait to uncover those roses and get that tiresome work out of the way. Two Things To Do To Succeed … Read more
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 are colored from pink or chartreuse to blood and bronze-red, making the plant almost a bouquet. Then grow TEA roses. Pleasant Tea Roses Tea roses … Read more
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 interest and charm with their attractive growing habit and prolific bloom. Floribunda Rose’s Features Floribunda roses have inherited their desirable qualities from the modern hybrid … Read more
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 European origin, although it kills the snowline annually in my exceedingly severe district. Its extraordinary hardiness must be attributed to its popularity and the vast … Read more
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 Correvon, and cuttings were obtained from the plant which was estimated to be 150 years old at the time. Although this rose was not officially … Read more
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 deserve more consideration for decorative garden purposes. Under the heading “Shrub Roses” come the species, the old roses, and a few moderns. Indeed they are … Read more
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, an air of old-fashioned interest. Through carelessness, someone said, we cut ourselves off from intellectual resources. Many still think of caring for old-fashioned roses as … Read more