Both beauty and beast, the 'Mermaid' rose produces creamy-yellow, fragrant blooms on wickedly thorny long canes that can snatch you off your riding mower. "She's a mean rose," said Mike Shoup, an ...

Over the last few centuries, roses have captivated gardeners worldwide due to their natural beauty and charm. Because of their strong scents and deep symbolism, these flowers are commonly used for ...

“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 ...

Timing your pruning just right can help your roses thrive and bloom for longer - but when is best to give them the chop?

For many gardeners, a rose is a rose. But before you plant one, you need to delve a little deeper. There are several categories of roses, and within each one, there are numerous cultivars. Now is an ...

Roses are an iconic symbol of love and romance, making a popular Valentine’s Day gift for spouses and significant others. More cut roses are sold than all other cut flowers combined in the United ...

People love roses, and roses are among the more commonly planted shrubs in our landscapes. Tough, reliable landscape roses are generally incorporated right into landscape beds like any other shrub.

If your roses are looking a little lackluster, you might not need to visit the garden center to give them a boost. A common kitchen staple, used coffee grounds, can offer surprising benefits when used ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the time of year when garden roses struggle. As temperatures rise, roses stop flowering and the leaf edges turn brown and scorch. The month and week they stop flowering depends on their ...