A Collection of Heirlooms: Antique Roses, Part 1
Tired of thinking of roses as high maintenance and lovely nusiances? Try the antique roses! Unlike it's haughty cousin, the hybrid tea rose, which takes endless tending, spraying and deadheading, an antique rose is almost carefree. Some, like the ... [... more]
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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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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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Hardy Roses: An Organic Guide to Growing Frost- And ...
Hardy Roses earns its space on my bookshelf!: This book is as useful as a reference as it is lovely to look at. Growing roses at my home in USDA hardiness zone 3 limits choices to a few shrubs found at the local garden center, but 'Hardy Roses' provides [... more]
CDN$30.05
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Botanica's Roses: Over 1,000 Pages & Over 2,000 Roses Listed
This is a smaller version of the hardcover Botanica's Roses: This is a neat little book with great high quality photos. However, the big Botanica's Roses book has two or three times as many roses. So this is not a listing of basically every rose like the [... more]
CDN$20.02
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The Rose Expert
Well organized presentation with detailed information: The New Rose Expert divides roses by hybrid tea, floribunda, patio, miniature, ground cover, climber & rambler and shrub with small labels at the bottom of each category for quick location and [... more]
CDN$19.95
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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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Camellias - The Roses of Spring
Our climate is ideal for growing these spectacular shrubs, as long as you choose the right Camellia and site it carefully. The flowers of Camellia are one of the few that rival the beauty of hybrid tea rose blooms. But Camellias, unlike hybrid ... [... more]
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Pruning Your Climbing Rose - Part 2
When do we do this pruning of Climbing Hybrid Teas? When you would normally prune your other, shrub-form roses. For me, that's generally late winter/very early spring - just as the nodes are beginning to swell and we can tell whether we have any ... [... more]
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Classic Roses: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia and Grower's ...
I never knew how many different kinds of roses there were: Publishers, please bring "Classic Roses" by Peter Beales back into print! I bought a copy for a friend and now I can't bear to give it up. It has everything for the rosarian: thousands [... more]
CDN$46.88
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