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 ...

Roses are universally loved with good reason! They’re lovely plants that offer undeniable romance and charm to your garden, whether they're groundcover roses edging a walkway or climbing roses ...

You love the roses - so do I. I wish the sky would rain down roses, as they rain from off the shaken bush. Why will it not? / Then all the valley would be pink and white and soft to tread on. / They ...

Gorgeous, fragrant roses are highly desirable and a favorite among gardeners. Although healthy rose bushes can provide beautiful blooms for years, they are often challenging to grow. The trick to ...

Learn how to plant and grow the easiest rose varieties for the best blooms all season long. One of the most popular flowers in the world is the rose, with over 100 species, primarily native to North ...

Roses are among the most admired garden plants – and they are also among the most expensive. So, when taking the first steps toward introducing roses to your landscape, you’ll want to give them the ...

Sometime during the year you will probably plant roses in your rose garden. There are many opinions on how to do this but I will tell you what has worked for me. First let me distinguish planting rose ...

Baldo Villegas grows close to 3,500 rose bushes in his Orangevale garden. Now is the time to get planting if you want to add roses to your garden collection. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] ...

In the North, planting roses in the spring while the roses are still dormant is the best time. In the South, where the ground does not freeze, fall is the ideal planting time. Summer planting is ...

“If you don’t know where you are going, you are going to end up somewhere else.” This sage adage, credited to Yogi Berra, pinpoints the importance of planning. If you are a novice gardener and you ...

The snow that slowly melted was great for landscapes! Inches of snow do not equal the same number of inches in rainfall, but enough snow fell to provide a good dose of water for plant roots. And it ...