Pink Roses for Weeping Standards
Karen Standards, also called tree roses, add elegance and formality to a garden. They provide a vertical accent and making pruning and spraying easier. Weeping standards are especially graceful and can…
Hybrid Hulthemia Roses
For over forty years rose breeders have been intrigued by the possibility of producing a repeat-blooming rose with a red blotch in the center. The inspiration for this endeavor is…
Hybrid Musk Roses for the Garden
The hybrid musks are a small group of roses that was mainly developed by the British rosairian, Rev. Joseph Pemberton, in the early 20th century. As a group, hybrid musks…
Top Five Exhibition Floribunda Roses for the 2014 Show Season
The American Rose Society announced the top exhibition floribunda roses in the March/April issue of their magazine, American Rose. The list is important to people interested in exhibiting roses because…
Top Five Exhibition Hybrid Tea for the 2014 Show Season
The American Rose Society published its list of top exhibition roses in itsMarch/April 2015 issue of its magazine, American Rose. If you are interested in competing successfully in local or…
Easy Hybrid Tea Roses for the Garden
Hybrid tea roses have a reputation for being difficult to grow, requiring great attention to fertilizing, application of pesticides, and pruning. Inspired by the Earth-Kind Program which focuses on shrub…
Biltmore International Rose Trials
Biltmore International Rose Trials, held at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina are the first international trials on the East Coast and one of two in the whole US.…
Large Flowered Roses
Rose flowers come in many sizes from ¾” to six inches across but there is something very special about huge blooms. An average flower size of five inches or more…
Thornless Roses
Roses that lack thorns (actually, prickles) are rare but very desirable. They are especially good choices for areas where children play and along walkways and paths where people pass by.…
Five Roses to Use in the Garden as Edgings
An edging along a flower bed gives structure and definition to the bed. It also has the practical purpose of helping to keep the grass in its place on one…