January is historically a dry month in the garden, so most years it is a fine time to plant roses and deciduous fruit trees, such as apples and plums. They will be more plentiful at nurseries in the ...

Planting bare-root roses in autumn is the secret to beautiful blooms next year. An easy (and cheaper) alternative to potted roses, bare-root roses tend to establish more quickly in the garden, often ...

Clear plastic shoeboxes make for suitable rooting cases. Learn how to grow a rose from a cutting and a slip using the hardwood or softwood propagation technique. Roses are surprisingly easy to root. I ...

Winter is the perfect time to repot your container roses. During this season the roses are slowing down, resting and dropping leaves in preparation for the surge of growth to come in early spring. At ...

For the adventurous, pots allow for growing almost any rose you want. You could encourage a large climber to grow as a shrub ...

The earth is soft, thanks to more rain, and is perfect for planting bare root roses, which are plentiful in nurseries now. It's the best time of year to plant roses, although the plants are available ...

Now is the time to buy and plant bare-root roses. For years, my favorite roses have included David Austin types because they are more like the old-fashioned roses with lots of smell and few disease ...

There they sit. Your dreams of a glorious rose garden resting on a few thorny sticks – pruned, leafless, severed at the roots and packed in wet sand or worse, a cardboard box. Here we are at the ...

Question: My mother-in-law says that you have to prune roses to the ground and cut off all branches. I tried this a couple of years ago and now my roses have turned into “wild” roses. What is going on ...