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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Afriend who's a fine rosarian specializing in Modern roses decided that she wanted to give heirloom roses a try and visited her local garden center. "The nurseryman asked if I wanted my 'Fantin-Latour ...

“The care and attention a rose gets underground is even more important than the care a rose is given above ground.” — Sam Jones, Master Rosarian Everything we rosarians do in the rose garden is geared ...

When one of my favorite hybrid tea roses died during a tough winter and I was left with only straggly shoots from the wild rose used for its roots, I became a fan of “own-root” roses. Unlike roses ...

I’m going to be in the market for a couple of rosebushes to plant in my display garden next spring, and I’m doing my homework now. If you don’t know a lot about roses, it’s not a good idea to impulse ...