Step into a landscape anchored by blooming roses, and you’ll feel it right away—that soft stillness, like the whole yard just paused for a second. There’s something undeniably magnetic about them. Maybe it’s their velvet-soft blooms that seem to hold old memories—like the smell of damp earth after a summer storm or flipping through a…
The world’s all time favorite flower and the most romantic color of all! What’s better than a pink rose? Whether you are looking for a shrub, climbing or rambling variety, a hybrid tea, multiflora or Damask bloom, the queen of gardens has a vast choice for you. And from soft, shell, and gentle, even dreamy…
Roses are wonderful; we all want at least one in our garden, but they can be a headache too. These shrubs are needy and delicate; if you don’t treat them right in fall, they can get sick over winter and they will certainly play up come spring… Taking care of the queen of flowers is…
There’s something undeniably charming about brushing past a rosemary shrub on a warm day. The resinous scent clings to your fingers, the silvery-green leaves shimmer in the sunlight, and for a brief, blissful moment—you’re in Provence. Or at least, it feels that way. But here’s the not-so-charming truth: rosemary doesn’t stay effortlessly beautiful forever. Left…
“Is fall a good time to plant roses?” The simple answer is a resounding YES! Actually, it is an ideal period to bring some new English shrub, hybrid tea, floribunda, climbing or other varieties of this stupendous flower to your garden. And let’s be honest no green space can call itself a “corner of paradise”…
If your roses looked tired last spring, the real problem probably started in fall. That’s the part most gardeners miss—thinking fall is the end of the season. But for roses, it’s the beginning of everything that comes next. The care you give them now determines how strong, healthy, and beautiful they’ll be when they wake…
Grow your roses in containers if all you can afford for gardening is a terrace! Yes, you can! And you can also grow them in containers even if you have a full blown garden, and this is especially useful if you live in cold areas. Roses and pots don’t instinctively spring to mind, but trust…
Spring pruning and fertilizing is the most important of the year for rose shrubs, and you have a short time, if you want them healthy and blooming vigorously. When you cut their branches and feed them at the beginning of the season, you give them strength and shape, and you remove all the sick and…
Essential in the kitchen, on roasts and in stews, gorgeous in your garden, with its fragrant, shiny and evergreen leaves and bright bluish lavender, or white and purple blooms, rosemary is also very helpful for your health! In fact, grow this aromatic shrub from the Mediterranean in your garden, or in containers, and you will…
Let’s be honest, rose bushes without their blooms aren’t all that pleasing to the eye. What makes roses so widely adored are their captivating and elegant blooms that add charm and romanticism to anylandscape they reside. To that end, it is both disappointing and vexing when our rose bushes don’t produce their prized flowers that…