Should you find yourself in the countryside this weekend, look out for Britain’s biggest rose exhibition. Admission is free and the exhibits adorn almost every hedgerow. The star plants, dog roses ...
Roses are the jewels of the summer garden with their gorgeous color and fragrance, and they look equally at home in a cottage or formal outdoor setting. And, considering how many varieties are out ...
Most shrub roses reach about 3 or 4 feet in both height and width, he says. Some varieties, such as Drift, don't grow quite as tall or wide and could even work as a form of ground cover. Stauffers of ...
Finding the best shrub roses takes a bit of research. A cross between certain species of roses and modern bush varieties, shrub roses are hardier and larger than traditional bush roses. Most of them ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As we near the busy outdoor gardening season, it’s time to stop and smell the roses. As cliché as this sounds, there’s no time like the present to consider ...
For some people, they’re also synonymous with too much work. Gardeners might remember the roses their mothers or grandmothers grew that were prone to diseases, had few blooms and had to be tied up in ...
Mother’s Day is coming, and the flower and candy ads are everywhere. There’s nothing wrong with either, of course, but both are fleeting. Instead of gifting your mom a bouquet of roses this year, why ...
As befits their name, 'Knock Out' roses are showstoppers in the garden. A real sensation, well, a knock out, if you like. Loved for their easy opulence and lack of disease, in the capable hands of the ...
As a gardening educator, one of my biggest challenges is to get people to do the right thing at the right time. Take planting roses, for instance. Nurseries generally get in their new roses in January ...