What Are the Best Types of Roses to Grow? Roses generally are grouped based on their growth habit and flower form. You may see the words heritage, antique, heirloom or Old Garden roses in descriptions ...

Prune hybrid tea roses now. Cut out crossing branches and remove suckers and dead wood. Cut canes back one-half to one-third. Make the cut at a bud facing to the outside of the plant. This allows more ...

Roses are an iconic symbol of love and romance, making a popular Valentine’s Day gift for spouses and significant others. More cut roses are sold than all other cut flowers combined in the United ...

Roses are heavy feeders that need plenty of nutrients to produce blooms and healthy foliage. Learn more about how and when to fertilize roses. Fertilize roses starting in early to mid‑spring, once ...

ROSES ARE A labor of love because they are laborious. Tend them all the time and make sure their soil is full of organic material, well weeded and cultivated. Next and most importantly, realize how ...

This is a great time to be thinking about roses, as February and March are the best months to plant them. (Nurseries generally get in their new ones in January and February.) Planted early, rose ...

Singer Lynn Anderson never promised you a rose garden, but I will. Anderson obviously didn't have access to the right plant material. The world of roses can be a bit intimidating, but let's sort it ...

Improved varieties of roses are now in garden centers. It’s time to look at how these newer roses are different from your Mom’s high-maintenance roses of a few decades ago. Remember when the rose was ...

This article was prepared with input from Frank Wells, a former Permian Basin Master Gardener and an expert rosarian. Frank retired from Master Gardeners and moved away to catch fish. We miss him and ...