How to Pick Old Garden Roses
Old garden roses are often known by many names. Some of them are old fashioned roses, antique roses, heritage roses, or just old roses. These are the roses that were known before the year 1867, when the first hybrid roses was bred called the La ... [... more]
eHow |
Taylor's Guide to Roses: How to Select and Grow 380 ...
 DIVNo variety of plants can contribute as much beauty to a garden - and as much satisfaction to the gardener who knows how to grow them - as roses. In this guide you'll findbrbr* photographs of almost 400 roses, with a quick reference to fragrance, [... more]
$1.50
A1 Books |
Planting Roses
A general rule of thumb suggests that roses should be planted about 24 inches apart. This spacing will vary depending on the type of rose you are planting. Old garden roses will need wider spacing, while miniatures can be planted closer. ... [... more]
University of Illinois Extension |
Winter Protection of Roses
Many of the roses that are classified as old garden roses are extremely tolerant of cold temperatures, while others like hybrid teas experience considerable damage. Also, budded roses stand a greater chance of injury or death due to severe cold ... [... more]
University of Illinois Extension |
Shrub Roses
Shrub roses and old garden roses are gaining national popularity as gardeners realize the excellent floral quality, good disease tolerance, and winter hardiness of these plants. By planting shrub roses, pesticide usage can be minimized and some ... [... more]
Colorado State University |
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]
Suite101 |
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]
Suite101 |
Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book
Book Description: An omnibus edition of three classics-The Old Shrub Roses, Shrub Roses of Today, & Climbing Roses Old & New-that were largely responsible for kindling modern enthusiasm for historical roses. All have been revised & expanded [... more]
$50.00
Amazon.com |
Roses for Washington and Oregon
Good start for NW rose beginners: This is the book I recomend to people who live in the Northwest and want to learn about roses. There are many great rose books out there, many more informative and with more pictures... but for folks who are just [... more]
$18.95
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In Search of Lost Roses
Whose rose is this?....: Thomas Christopher, a garden writer with a great deal of experience went looking for wild roses. His trip took him all over the United States from Connecticut to Texas to California to the American South. He discovered a unique [... more]
$11.00
Amazon.com |
Wild and Old Garden Roses
Author: Gordon Edwards Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 635.933372 EAN: 9780028441603 ISBN: 0028441605 Publication Date: 1975-04 [... more]
$12.95
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