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Roses for Dummies
by: Lance Walheim
publisher: For Dummies, published: 2000-01-24
ASIN: 0764552023
sales rank: 166756
price: $8.36 (new), $2.80 (used)
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“American Beauty,” “Dublin Bay,” “Rocketeer,” “Betty Boop,” “High Noon,” “Pearly Gates”…with a distinctive name for each of hundreds of varieties, the array of roses that could adorn your garden is both dazzling and daunting. So which ones survive hardily on their own for weeks on end, and which ones wither and die without constant attention? How do you tell a climber from a shrub, and how does each thrive? And don’t even start with pruning! Despite all the (ahem) thorny particulars, gardeners still love to grow these beautiful flowers that would by any other name still smell as sweet. Roses for Dummies does away with the myth that roses have to be high maintenance, instead showing how to choose a type that will blossom in your care. Inside, rosarians of all levels will find useful information on: - Shopping for roses
- Planting
- Watering and mulching
- Fertilizing
- Pruning
- Protecting roses from weather and pests
- And more
Roses for Dummies contains everything you need to know to get started, or, if you’re more advanced, refine your knowledge of roses. Now in a new Second Edition with more than 100 new varieties described, as well as new information on insect and disease control, this helpful guide also covers: - Landscaping with roses
- What makes a rose fragrant
- Roses and their partners in the garden
- Growing in containers
- Drying roses and making potpourri
- Rose societies and other places to see roses
- Ten roses to avoid if you’re not an expert
Whether looking for nothing more than a sweet-smelling decoration to brighten your doorstep, or looking to enter a major rose competition, discoveries about this much-loved flower await you. Full of pointers, resources, pitfalls, vocabulary, and an eye-popping full color insert, this book will help you grow the roses of your dreams.
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A Year of Roses
by: Stephen Scanniello
publisher: Cool Springs Press, published: 2006-05-02
ASIN: B001SAREOG
sales rank: 355224
price: $7.70 (new), $4.28 (used)
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Author Stephen Scanniello has earned an international reputation as a rose scholar. A Year of Roses encompasses his advice and recommendations on how to care for roses throughout the year. It is unique because of Scanniello's expertise on the subject and his approachable style. Includes month-by-month recommendations to properly care for roses. Written for anyone interested in learning the best practices for maintaining beautiful roses, and includes all rose categories. The American Hort. Society named it one of the seven books of 1997 to receive the 1998 American Hort. Society Annual Book Award. This society described the book as: "...special because of its approachability. Scanniello is one of the country's rising rosarians-thoroughly grounded, yet new enough to the game to calm the fears of beginners..."
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Trees, Shrubs, and Roses for Midwest Gardens:
by: Ezra Haggard
publisher: Indiana University Press, published: 2001-09-01
ASIN: 025321470X
sales rank: 662509
price: $14.76 (new), $4.94 (used)
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Ezra Haggard, author of the popular Perennials for the Lower Midwest (1996), literally takes landscape design to a higher level with this gorgeous book especially for Midwesterners. Trees and shrubs add mass and the all-important vertical element to a garden. If well chosen, they also contribute beauty, texture, and color all year long and for years to come, beautifying the home and adding to its value, screening out unattractive elements, providing privacy, and getting better as they get older.
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Gardening with Roses: A Practical and Inspirational Guide
by: Patrick Taylor
publisher: Timber Press, published: 2000-07-01
ASIN: 0881922862
sales rank: 1821998
price: $5.00 (new), $1.30 (used)
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Roses are the best loved of all garden plants. For beauty and variety of flower, and sweetness of scent, they are incomparable. However, they are not the easiest plants to use in the garden, and to encourage their glorious best they must be used with care. Enhanced by more than 200 color photos, Gardening with Roses is a practical and inspirational guide in which Patrick Taylor selects the best varieties, describes their special virtues, and explains how to use them effectively. Full information is given on hardiness and cultivation. The 'Rose Directory' at the heart of the book pays special attention to flower color and scent, the character of the leaf, as well as the plant habit.
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Landscaping With Antique Roses ("Fine Gardening" Books)
by: Liz Druitt
publisher: Taunton Pr, published: 1992-04
ASIN: 0942391640
sales rank: 608668
price: $44.39 (new), $13.99 (used)
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The Ultimate Rose Book: New Expanded Edition
by: Stirling Macoboy
publisher: Abrams Books, published: 2007-10-01
ASIN: 0810994100
sales rank: 460174
price: $38.47 (new), $32.99 (used)
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The spectacularly successful Ultimate Rose Book is back in a thoroughly updated and revised edition. Rosarian Stirling Macoboy’s book is a classic, not just for its beautiful pictures and comprehensive coverage, but also for its author’s good-humored, opinionated observations and his selection of 1,500 rose varieties to feature out of tens of thousands.
The expanded edition features 300 new varieties, selected for their beauty, fragrance, hardiness, and popularity, as well as new features on the history of the rose, the renaissance of garden roses, climbers, and ramblers, and great rose gardens of the world. There are also updated chapters on the classification of roses, as well as a glossary and bibliography. The 2,000 color photographs include the varieties named in the book.
An indispensable reference that possesses visual beauty and literary wit and soul, The Ultimate Rose Book is for gardeners and rose lovers everywhere.
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The New Rose Expert
by: D.G. Hessayon
publisher: Sterling, published: 1996-01-01
ASIN: 0903505479
sales rank: 509915
price: $0.01 (new), $0.01 (used)
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Reach for the world's most popular book on roses, newly revised and expanded, with over 3 million copies sold in earlier editions. You'll find 150 new varieties and ideas for care printed for the first time in any book. Yet the basics still remain: a guided tour through the seasons, an encycopedic description of 388 popular roses; advice on purchase selections, planting locations, and pest and disease control; growing instructions; and an array of useful information.
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Taylor's Guide to Roses: How to Select abd Grow 380 Roses, Including the New Hardy Ever-Blooming Varieties - Flexible Binding (Taylor's Gardening Guides)
by: Nancy J. Ondra
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published: 2002-02-05
ASIN: 0618068880
sales rank: 218919
price: $2.88 (new), $1.16 (used)
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No variety of plants can contribute as much beauty to a garden - and as much satisfaction to the gardener who knows how to grow them - as roses. In this guide you'll find
• photographs of almost 400 roses, with a quick reference to fragrance, winter hardiness, and disease resistance
• every important class of rose - Species Roses, Old Garden Roses, Shrubs, Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Grandifloras, Miniatures, and Climbers
• suggestions for carefree border and ground-cover roses
• an encyclopedia entry for each plant, noting its uses and limitations
• a pest and disease chart that describes the damage, its cause, and ecologically safe controls.
Whether you want to buy a single carefree bush or maintain a whole garden of perfect roses, this Taylor's Guide has everything you need to know to succeed the first time.
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All About Roses (Ortho's All About Gardening)
by: Ortho
publisher: Wiley, published: 2007-01-23
ASIN: 0696232170
sales rank: 511241
price: $3.20 (new), $3.19 (used)
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Whether you're eyeing a hybrid tea you remember from your mother's garden, or one of the new easy-care landscaping varieties, this book makes it easy to add the unmatched beauty of roses to your garden. Inside you'll find: • Expert advice on choosing the right rose for your space and nurturing it for years of beauty. • Detailed descriptions of more than 200 varieties of perennials in the illustrated plant encyclopedia.
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Roses: Placing Roses, Planting & Care, The Best Varieties
by: Editors of Sunset Books
publisher: Oxmoor House, published: 2003-01-01
ASIN: 0376036591
sales rank: 76201
price: $8.88 (new), $3.67 (used)
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Which roses grow best in a small garden?What companion plants complement a rose border? How do you 'modernize' a rose garden? All these and more are answered in the new edition of Sunset's Roses. Everything for the novice or experienced rose devotee is here-the latest advice on shopping for roses, growing techniques, planning a rose garden, maintaining healthy roses, regional tips, and yes, detailed pruning instructions (no more 'ouch.') With its lush photography showcasing over 350 roses, plus a gallery of choices hand-picked by Sunset experts, this is the resource book rose fanciers will reach for time and time again.
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