A recent column featured the genus Rosa, one of the most popular garden plants. This week, we’ll look at a few of the roses in bloom in my garden, and touch upon seasonal rose care. The accompanying ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Roses are going dormant at this time of the year. This is the season for annual care for your roses, including propagating, pruning, and adding plants to ...

Roses are a highly polarizing plant in the garden community – while many enthusiasts adore their iconic blooms, and won’t hesitate to add another to the garden, other gardeners find them simply too ...

Like many of you, I had a few plants that flowered through the winter. But my roses were the rock stars in the winter, blooming right through December, even though the temperatures were chilly. Roses ...

“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 ...

As the winter begins, roses need extra care to get them ready for winter. Hybrid tea roses are most often grafted woody shrubs. Ornamental rose varieties might be grafted on to a hardier rootstock for ...

Roses can be vulnerable to fungal diseases like black spot, mildew, and mould in January and February, but there is a simple ...

Roses can easily become diseased in January which will prevent them growing in spring, but there is a simple gardening chore ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As we near the busy outdoor gardening season, it’s time to stop and smell the roses. As cliché as this sounds, there’s no time like the present to consider ...

We are well into bare root rose season, which began in January and continues to May. This is a good time to add roses to the landscape: mail order nurseries and garden centers offer lots of rose ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many gardens include at least one rose and perhaps several. Roses are dormant from late winter to early spring (when buds begin to swell), so now is the time ...