Better than a Moat and Drawbridge: Old Garden Roses
If you are looking for fast-growing plants that will create a barrier but also be beautiful, try old garden roses. The apartment complex in my backyard has been a decided nuisance. Before we started the garden, tenants used our yard to walk their ... [... more]
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Landscaping with Old Garden Roses
Using both once-blooming and repeat-blooming old roses in the landscape. Old Garden Roses provide a wealth of landscape design opportunities. The gardener, having made the "how, why, where and which" decisions, has yet another choice to make [... more]
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Landscaping with Shrub Roses
The second major division in the IRAR's rose classifications is Shrubs. As a group of roses, they are a "catch all" collection but provide the designer with a multitude of original and diverse landscape uses. Like the Old Garden Roses, many of . [... more]
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Growing Roses in Cold Climates
 Wonderful rose reference for northern gardeners: Not only is this book the best reference, but the only one that gives novices as well as the advanced growers the information on growing healthy roses in the colder zones. It classifies the different types [... more]
CDN$55.95
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The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book
Good book for rose historians or other rose gardeners: I love this book, but found it a little daunting when I first unwrapped it. It is not your standard "lots of beautiful pictures" book. There are a few pictures, but they are not [... more]
CDN$84.00
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Smith and Hawken: 100 Old Roses for the American Garden
From Amazon.com: While gardeners often start out with hybrid tea roses, they most often end up growing the healthier and supremely fragrant old roses. Who can resist their crumpled petals in soft watercolor shades and their penetrating fragrance of baby [... more]
CDN$19.95
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