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Roses Floribundas Designed for the Landscape
What my busy family likes most about floribundas is that they are practically as easy to grow and to maintain, in our southern Michigan landscape as common hardy shrubs. (Actually, floribundas are...
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Moving Rose Plants
Almost every month in the year someone is moving from one home to another, or moving rose plants from one garden to another. Many plants are left behind but many more are killed because they were not...
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Bad Advice – Following Exact Cultural Directions
Summary: Many people follow plant culture instructions without stepping back and asking themselves what is different or the same in their growing environment. Every growing area has its own...
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Ways to use Climbing Roses
Summary: Climbing roses are effective where many other plants are not. Some are valuable for covering walls, others are ideal subjects for training on posts. Is there a climbing rose in your garden? If...
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The Potted Patio Rose – Polyantha Roses
Summary: Love roses but only have a small area or you prefer potted roses over those planted in the ground? Learn about the polyantha rose – the potted patio rose – its history and how it may fit in...
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Roses From Cuttings
The next time someone gives you a rose, don’t throw it away after the petals have fallen. Stick it in the ground in a shaded spot, cover it with a glass jar and keep it watered. It may reward you with...
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Rosa Virginiana – The Beautiful Native American Rose
Not all of our “Best” ornamentals come from the Orient and this beautiful native American rose is proof of that. A native from Newfoundland to Virginia and westward to Missouri, it will grow almost...
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How To Make A Hedge of Roses
Looking for a barrier hedge or a screen planting, for a decorative way to divide garden areas, or for colorful plants to define a path or drive? Roses can solve any of these landscape problems....
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Thinking Of Prehistoric Flowers – Roses Iris and Crocuses
The common garden flowers “beloved,” according to many garden books, “by our grandmothers,” date beyond our grandmothers to ancestors far too remote to be included in any family tree. We are never...
View ArticleControlling Black Spot in the Rose Garden
Somewhere in rose growing country the season will prove to be one of the worst for blackspot in recent years. Often this can be attributed to a very early and warm spring which produces early growth of...
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