If you want to plant your potted roses into fresh ground for your garden or in a rose bed, there are a few considerations that you’ll need to know. You’ll need to understand that you just can’t do it any way you please. Roses are on a bush, and bushes are finicky and require a [...]

Poets and lovers have sung their praises for centuries, and now you too have decided to proclaim your love for roses by planting a rose bush in your garden. You’ve heard the names of strange-sounding diseases that afflict rose bushes, and all the complicated pruning methods—it all sounds so complicated! Fear not. [...]

Rose gardens are not as difficult to care for and maintain as many people seem to think. In fact, roses tend to be one of the easier plant species to grow. This is due in large part to the excellent plant stock that growers are now offering for sale. Couple that with the superb plant [...]

There’s nothing quite like walking into a rose garden in spring. Roses provide a beautiful atmosphere in your yard and garden.
But before you can have great rose bushes in the spring, you have to get your hands dirty in the fall and my newly released An Introduction to Rose Gardening will guide [...]

There’s nothing quite like walking into a rose garden in spring. Roses provide a beautiful atmosphere in your yard and garden. But before you can have great rose bushes in the spring, you have to get your hands dirty in the fall. Here is a guide on how to plant your roses [...]

Roses are probably the post popular and desired garden plants around. They are pleasantly fragrant and often considered to be one of the most beautiful flowers available. However, if you’ve decided to plant roses in your garden, you’ve probably already discovered that there are many more varieties than most people imagine. While [...]

You’ve made the right choice by choosing to put roses in your garden. After all what would a garden be without them? The various shapes, sizes and colors bring out the best in any garden. But now comes the difficult part- the part where you have to choose which roses to plant. With so many [...]

Once a rose has bloomed it needs to be removed from the bush. This removal is called deadheading. To have a healthy plant that bears beautiful flowers, it’s essential that you know how to deadhead properly. The most obvious reason that you deadhead your rose bushes is to get more blooms. Once you cut off [...]