If you love roses and are looking for a vertical accent for your garden, try climbing roses. The best climbing roses have all the attributes of rose bushes, but their gorgeous blooms and accompanying ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first identifying sites where roses would grow ...

Roses are meant to mingle with other plants in the garden. Their bold blooms pair beautifully with floral sprays, spikes, spheres, and spillers, while the leggy stems of climbing roses provide the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Roses are going dormant, so the fall season is the time for annual care for roses in the garden. Today’s column outlines seasonal tasks for pruning and ...

Close-up of pink roses on a bush - Norman Posselt/Getty Images Roses have a reputation for being difficult plants to grow, requiring clever tricks to thrive in gardens. It's true that they're prone to ...

When it comes to selecting a rose to grow, you need to consider the source of the rose, what grade it is, does it grow on a root stock or its own roots, and many other features. When buying larger ...

“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 ...

The Greek poetess Sappho crowned the rose the “Queen of Flowers.” Rosarians wholeheartedly agree with her, because roses light up and illuminate the garden. When planted with a “court” of compatible ...

Late January to early February is a crucial time for roses, and if you want them to thieve in spring, then now is the time to ...

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

Many flowers in your garden won't require shaping or pruning, but roses benefit greatly from being cut back. These classic perennials reawaken each spring after the dormant season, filling the garden ...