Patio Rose Garden

Months of big hybrid tea blooms with a shrub rose that gives you superior heat & cold hardiness. Easy Elegance brings you the best of both worlds. As they age the blooms turn a luminous lipstick pink before they drop cleanly off of the plant.

The Livin' Easy rose is easy to care for, is very hardy, and disease resistant. The foliage is a very glossy green that looks great even without its beautiful flowers. This rose is very consistent in all climates and is great in the landscape or in mass...

The delicate blossoms begin early and continue their bloom all summer and into fall. As its name implies, this remarkable rose variety is not only “pink” but also “easy” to grow.

The double fuchsia blooms are 2½" across and have a moderate fragrance. This plant exhibits dark green foliage until fall and then it turns yellow. The birds love the rose hips! Use this plant for general gardening, mass planting, and hedges or screens.

Make each cut slanted and about 1/4 inch above an outward-facing leaf bud, with the cut slanting away from the bud. Staggering the cuts will give a shrub a dome shape.from Knock Out rose bushes.

There are a number of reds and the debate goes on as to which is the best. 'Rouge Royale' (2000, Meilland), technically a hybrid tea, is a wonderful example (photo at rightI actually took a poll on red climbers last year because I was looking for one...

So I am looking forward to clusters of these light pink, cupped, smaller blooms on a 2-foot by 2-foot bush this year.(2000, Carruth) is just amazing to me. It is hardy to zone 6, blooms in flushes all season, has a mature height of about 5' and a strong...

This is my brightest, 'orangest' orange rose. Those of you who read my previous article on purple roses. It is one that particularly struck me from a thread. The following are credited to her with much gratitude.'Chris Evert' (Carruth, 1997), hybrid tea,...

It's a miniature and in the last group I bought before Ralph Moore closed his Sequoia Nursery. They might just show up in my garden next year.All photos are taken by the author and from the author's garden with the exception of 'Ghislaine de Feligonde'Links...

As with most shrubs, it blooms in clusters of smaller, 2.5" blooms all season. Hardy to zone 6.'Shocking Blue' (1974, Kordes), floribunda, mauve) [l], floribunda. What it is: very fragrant, repeat blooming, height of 30"-40" by 24" wide, large fully-double...

A bell at the entrance of the garden is to be vigorously shaken to make yourself known, in case nobody shows up you can proceed to visiting, an honesty box it hung for the fees, people under 18 years old get free entrance.

You will need to get into the beds for pruning, spraying, mulching and other garden chores. If you are interested in what specific cultivars I have planted, you may read myFor a different take on rose garden design, please take a look at* If you are interested...

Knockouts are the perfect rose for the lazy gardener. While the mite does not live in the soil, traces of roots will remain, so roses cannot be replanted in the same area. Even if rose rosette isn't in your own garden, if it is in your neighborhood, your...

''Why Earthkind?", you may ask. Well don't throw in the towel just yet. Planting roses like Earthkind, and other resistant roses, reduces our need for harmful chemicals that pollute our earth; Earthkind roses also thrive in a variety of soils.

She was however "heartened to see the lush growth of her thornless climber, a testament to its toughness and status as a true survivor. That seems to be how it happens doesn't it? If ever you are trying to discover the true meaning of this time of year,...

I was a bit upset and scolded Minnie for doing that, but then I patiently took them all and put them over the rose cuttings again. She was deliberately going there, taking the bottle and sometimes, even the cutting.

There are even climbers among the tiny miniature roses. Shrub roses include modern shrubs, hybrid musks and hybrid tugosas, English toses (David Austin Roses) and China toses. The American Rose Society classification has 56 categories.

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...

Moore has decided to give all of his plants, research, notes and as much of his wisdom as he can impart to Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where a rose breeding program already exists.

They were often used at funerals.", and it continues, "...a true black rose is impossible to produce."We have here another vote against the reality of the true black rose in nature.

I need to buy around 50 patio tree rose seeds urgently for the coming christmas. I want to send these seeds to an address in the USA asap. How long does it take to deliver the seeds?

This step will help you visualize the garden before actual work has begun. The 'Helen Hayes' rose grows up to 4 feet tall and is resistant to most common rose problems; however, it is susceptible to mildew.

It has a 2.5 inch bloom that is pink, yellow, or white.Another option for windows that are ground level that you want to protect, for example, your baby's nursery, your child's room, or the bathroom is a Taihape Rose.

That's not generally a recommended time to prune roses, but ZD is very forgiving. Sweetly scented, fluffy pink blooms, tough as nails, shade tolerant, and nearly thornless? We've planted them in much shadier locations in our parents' yards, and their...

I like everything about this rain guage except the guage holder is made of plastic. It even made it thru a rain storm which produced 2 5/8 in of water. It really surprised me! But it was cheap and it works great so far.