The rose has always been my favorite flower and my favorite rose would have to be “Mr. Lincoln.” Someone said giving a dozen roses is a clear statement of love and I believe it. Growing up in White ...

Water of course is another crucial element to growing roses in the fall that you will need to keep up with for successful blooms. "Water well on the day of planting and then as needed going forward," ...

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 ...

Jeanette Marantos is a Features reporter focused primarily on plants, gardening and Southern California’s changing landscapes for the Los Angeles Times. She also writes the monthly L.A. Times Plants ...

Grow Earth-Kind roses for beautiful buds that don’t require the fertilizers, pesticides and extra fuss most roses do. Choose from 21 hardy rose varieties. It is often thought that growing roses is a ...

Now is an excellent time to consider adding roses to your landscape. For many gardeners, particularly those just getting into roses, a rose is a rose. But several different categories or types of ...

NITA-JO ROUNTREE’S enthusiasm for roses is infectious, and her Eastside garden a showplace of healthy, voluptuous rose blooms. She’s written a new book, published this month, packed with photos and ...

I first heard about Fortuniana rootstock a few years ago at a rose society meeting. The presenter, master rosarian Dona Martin, told us that rose plants grafted on Fortuniana rootstock grow larger ...

You love the roses - so do I. I wish the sky would rain down roses, as they rain from off the shaken bush. Why will it not? / Then all the valley would be pink and white and soft to tread on. / They ...

I had the most beautiful rose bush. She was so beautiful, I gave her a human pronoun instead of just “it.” She was a climbing deep purple and white rose who covered our aging fence. I bought her years ...