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 ...
When it comes to gardening, we can count on Martha Stewart to always provide us with sound advice and fantastic tips, and this stands true for bare-root roses. The gardening expert recently shared a ...
This is a busy month for the rose gardener. One of the most exciting activities is the selection of new roses for the garden. Choosing the right rose involves picking the color, fragrance and bloom ...
Bare root roses are cheaper, and more disease resistant than containerized roses. Ciscoe shows us how to plant these beautiful alternatives, touching on the book Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...