Roses long have been regarded as the queen of flowers. Their beauty and sweet aroma have been tantalizing mankind since at least the days of ancient Rome with evidence that roses may have been held in ...
Prune hybrid tea roses now. Cut out crossing branches and remove suckers and dead wood. Cut canes back one-half to one-third. Make the cut at a bud facing to the outside of the plant. This allows more ...
Claude Graves grows 250 varieties of roses at his Richardson property. Hybrid teas are his favorite, but he also cultivates climbers, miniatures and heirloom roses in his backyard. His garden will be ...
All over America, yards have older hybrid tea roses languishing for lack of care. These are often specimens planted any time from a decade to a century ago. They’re discovered when you buy or rent a ...
June is “National Rose Month.” Perhaps you already have roses in your home garden in the form of the Knock Out Rose, the Drift Rose or the Oso Easy Rose. But Allen Owings, of the LSU AgCenter, ...
The American Garden Rose Selections (AGRS) 2026 winners: • ‘Buttercream Drift,’ introduced by Star Roses and Plants. • ...
July 8 -- For the brown thumbs out there who have had trouble growing tea hybrid roses, there is a new, tougher type of rose. Traditionally, tea hybrid roses are very difficult to grow. But the Love ...
Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first identifying sites where roses would grow well and then selecting the rose category ...
Phil Edmunds’ earliest memories revolve around roses. He grew up in the family business pruning, deadheading, fertilizing, all the things that keep these royals of the plant world healthy and ready ...
It is time to deliberate on our must-have roses, says rosarian Rita Perwich. Here are the beauties coming in 2023. Last week, we celebrated Thanksgiving. We reflected and gave thanks for our many ...