If you’re dreaming of a garden bursting with beautiful roses by next spring, this budget-friendly trick is for you. According ...
For traditional roses, choose from the popular shrub roses and modern bush roses. Shrub roses include old garden roses, species (wild roses and hybrids), modern shrub roses and groundcover roses.
Pruning roses can "encourage dormancy" and "sets the stage for an earlier burst of beautiful blooms and protects new growth ...
Shrub roses have an open and spreading shape, often with arching prickly branches that flower along their length. Flowers are single, semi-double or fully double in a huge number of colours – many ...
Ants are attracted to rose bushes because of another pest that has already taken up residence in the garden, the aphid. Ants love to feed on the sticky, honeydew residue left on the plants by aphids.
Liam Beddall of David Austin Roses recommends using an organic, biodegradable mulch rather than something like an aggregate.
It's not difficult to remove a rose bush but it does require some care—and if it's a wild variety you'll need to take extra ...
Unlike bush roses, the more you cut back modern shrub and English roses, the more leafy growth they'll produce at the expense of blooms. They need an established framework of branching stems on which ...
String trimmers are a lazy gardener's best friend but they can cause bark damage on rose bushes. A lawnmower can also make a wound that starts peeling on taller stemmed roses and climbers. Deer have ...
What could be better than rose bushes covering your yard? Unfortunately, if they're multiflora roses (Rosa multiflora), there's a lot that could be better. Multiflora roses are actually an aggressive ...