Roses always have been popular in the garden, but their care requirements limited them to homeowners willing to put up with their high maintenance. New breeding breakthroughs brought easy-care, ...

Drift roses are a cross between low-growing ground cover roses and miniature roses. From the ground cover roses they inherited toughness, disease resistance and a spreading growth habit. From the ...

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Roses come in many forms. They can be bushes, upright tea roses or grafted tree roses. A rose can climb, produce long-stemmed blooms for cutting or bear miniature flowers. It can be many-petaled or ...

Roses need at least six hours of direct sunlight daily, ideally morning sun. Some shade is beneficial if it's extremely hot. Roses thrive in soil that drains well and has a loamy texture. Avoid ...

“If you don’t know where you are going, you are going to end up somewhere else.” This sage adage, credited to Yogi Berra, pinpoints the importance of planning. If you are a novice gardener and you ...

Roses are a popular flower. And, believe it or not, they're not hard to grow. As a matter of fact, with so many varieties for sale, the hardest part just may be choosing the right plant for your ...

Now is an excellent time to consider adding roses to your landscape. For many gardeners, particularly those just getting into roses, a rose is a rose. But several different categories or types of ...

Q. Our ground cover roses are getting too large for the site. When can I prune them back to the desired size? A. Good pruning weather arrives now through winter. While heavy rose pruning normally ...

Winter is a good time to check the garden for large bare-soil areas that would benefit from ground-cover plantings. Areas with chronic weed problems or where existing ground cover is struggling are ...