Do you want to have a beautiful rose garden but hesitate at the springtime price tag for potted plants? If you live in a location where the ground doesn't stay frozen throughout the winter, there's a ...

Roses are meant to mingle with other plants in the garden. Their bold blooms pair beautifully with floral sprays, spikes, spheres, and spillers, while the leggy stems of climbing roses provide the ...

“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 ...

Gorgeous, fragrant roses are highly desirable and a favorite among gardeners. Although healthy rose bushes can provide beautiful blooms for years, they are often challenging to grow. The trick to ...

The Greek poetess Sappho crowned the rose the “Queen of Flowers.” Rosarians wholeheartedly agree with her, because roses light up and illuminate the garden. When planted with a “court” of compatible ...

The rose is one of the oldest flowers in cultivation and is still considered one of the most popular garden flowers today. The flower is so popular that in 1986, Congress named the rose our national ...

Mother's Day is coming, and the flower and candy ads are everywhere. There's nothing wrong with either, of course, but both are fleeting. Instead of gifting your mom a bouquet of roses this year, why ...

An age-old question circles the gardening world each year: Can you plant new roses in an old rose bed? If you’re learning how to plant roses, you might have come across the term ‘replant disease’ — it ...

In the North, planting roses in the spring while the roses are still dormant is the best time. In the South, where the ground does not freeze, fall is the ideal planting time. Summer planting is ...

These unique perennials are one of the very first plants to bloom in early spring, or even late winter, ushering in the new gardening season. They begin blooming well before tulips and daffodils and ...