Best Rugosa Roses

Just don't buy a rose only because it's beautiful.That said, let's start with that classic single red rose that I believe is the image that pops into most people's heads when they hear the word "rose"; the hybrid tea.

I am so looking forward to spring in my rose garden. No question that Mr. Moore knows what he is doing. The fragrance is very mild and it is susceptible to mildew, but with the stunning color and form this rose can be forgiven almost anything.(1990, Moore)...

Just what I look for in a rose. Color with a capital. Besides, it looks like scoops of orange sherbet. With many thanks, the credits are listed with each photo. Her love of her roses comes through in her photos.

You can see in the photo below that one of those roses was a fairly typical pink cabbage rose, the other a more unusual dusky type.Somebody told her that the latter was called the coffee rose.Although its flowers are certainly dark, they are more maroon...

Just because I love it! In this case I'm willing to take on the extra effort. It should make quite a splash. The rose I intentionally bought arrived dead and was not available, so I was offered a refund or a substitute.

With a fragrance like myrrh and anise, the 3.5" to 4" blooms have 40 petals. Both of our rose gardens are young, started last season, spring of 2007. An extra benefit is round orange hips in the fall.

If you do not have a dehydrator, place your material on a cookie sheet and turn your oven on as low as it will go. Use 1 tea bag to 8oz of boiling water and let it steep for 15 minutes.I had to try some of the tea and it was nice.

They may have interesting foliage or hips or fruits that prolong their seasonal interest. Climbing roses allow you to use vertical space - an important dimension in any landscape design.

While I am proud of this achievement, the story does not end here.I wanted to give a very special gift to a very special friend I met here at Dave's Garden. After reading the article, I decided I would assist with this cause in any way I could.

I was careful not to plantthem in a wide open area, where Minnie could damage them with her running - I thought! The very next day after I planted them, I found all the bottles I buried over the rose cuttings, on the lawn.

Here is one of his brief poems"[My favorite rose is] the one I haven't made yet because it's perfect."Eurekalert.org, Texas A&M University Horticultural Communications, 11-Jan-2008, 'More roses blooming at Texas A&M, thanks to Moore'web site with permission;...

If the wind is still a problem, a windbreak of junipers or other appropriate shrubs could be planted upwind of the rose beds.Now, what about size? I had a nice space about 40' x 22' to work with.

You have the ability then, to assure more privacy, once the vines fill in. As a matter of fact, make it down right painful for them, yet aesthetically pleasing for you. It has a 2.5 inch bloom that is pink, yellow, or white.Another option for windows...

All-America Rose Selections is a designation given to roses that have passed a very rigorous evaluation.These evaluations are conducted at 20 AARS trial gardens throughout the country.

We will take a stroll in one of those magical places. You can first have a stroll using just your eyes and enjoy all the different colours and subtle shades that roses petals are able to display, then close your eyes and have a ‘nose stroll' enjoying...

There were buds and two little blooms on Peggy Martin. My late husband grew up in the Beaumont, Texas area, and during the hurricane, we had 9 members of his Texas family staying at our home for two weeks.

Pictured are some other early decals of roses. Roses are probably the most widely used flower for decorating dinnerware. Floral patterns have been used to decorate just about everything and appear almost everywhere.They have been used so extensively,...

There are lots of songs and even band names with 'black rose' in them. The quest goes on with the rose breeders. We also have some funerals devoid of flowers. There seems to be some controversy or sour grapes; you can sort it out if you wish.

When I checked into the conference, I discovered that Sean would only be speaking at a luncheon. His home was nestled alongside a racetrack and from a very early age he was surrounded by horses, which may explain his lifelong love of them.

For those of us who are Helen Hayes fans, we will always have fond memories of her. Due to a severe allergy to dust, her doctor ordered her to quit the stage or she would die. She won three Tony awards, two Oscars an Emmy and a Grammy.

That's not generally a recommended time to prune roses, but ZD is very forgiving. 'Zephirine Drouhin' is my kind of rose. This location does get several hours of afternoon sun, but that's not the all day sun that most roses prefer.

I didn't own a garden hose that year and it was an historically dry year. I gave roses to other people who were discovering that the old roses were easy to grow. I had Stan build another fence.

It is never fertilized and the only pruning it gets is when I need to shape it. It is a fully double rose, having more petals than some of the others. It takes up a large footprint in my garden.

I discovered this fact by accident. They come in a variety of colours just like the bigger roses. They are, of course, succeptible to the same pests and diseases as other, larger types of roses.Your newly acquired mini rose is planted the same as larger...

I use a 2 gallon watering can on each plant. This will give you an accurate indication of the chemical makeup of your soil. By following these procedures I produce a pretty good rose garden.Here is a recipe for an organic rose fertilizer you can make...

Introduced species roses have in many cases naturalized into the landscape so early that they are sometimes assumed to be indigenous to North America. It has orange-red hips in the fall.

STOP! DON'T CUT DOWN THAT TREE! She shouted just in time for the blade of the chain saw was millimeters away from the trunk. First, were the two thirty story holly trees. Along with the geraniums, many weeds were pulled and finally I more or less had...