Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first ...
“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 among the oldest flowers in cultivation, although many have earned a reputation as fussy or difficult to grow. Some of the newer shrub rose hybrids, however, are disease-resistant, carefree ...
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening: The season for roses

Roses are going dormant, so the fall season is the time for annual care for roses in the garden,” writes columnist. “Today’s ...
As a gardening educator, one of my biggest challenges is to get people to do the right thing at the right time. Take planting roses, for instance. Nurseries generally get in their new roses in January ...
A vigorous and easy-to-care-for shrub rose is Sunny Knock Out (Rosa hybrid 'Radsunny'). The Sunny Knock Out rose is a small- to medium-sized rose, with a strong, rounded growth habit. The leaves are ...
The rise of the shrub rose – led by the ubiquitous Knock Out family – turned the rose from a collector’s plant into an every-person’s plant. These roses may not have the sleek, tulip-like blooms of a ...
Once the first winter freeze has hit, you will want to take protective measures to keep your rose plants safe through the ...
For those rosarians who like to be the first in the neighborhood to grow the newest roses, here is a peek at the brand-new 2025 roses. They will be in nurseries very, very soon, and these beauties are ...
This time of year, you might be fortunate enough to see a large shrub blooming along the side of the road that has large, exquisite, colorful, pink flowers. People are often taken by this shrub and ...
Plan a visit to this enchanting garden in Georgia, where towering canopies, seasonal light displays, and rare plant ...