Growing Roses Organically: Your Guide to Creating an Easy-Care Garden Full of Fragrance and Beauty

by Barbara Wilde

Book Overview

Not many gardeners can resist the beauty of a rose-- a flower so divine and graceful in appearance and, in many cases, so wonderfully fragrant that it evokes thoughts of love and romance at first... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875968805
• ISBN13: 9780875968803
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

This is the most thorough information I've ever seen on growing roses and why diseases happen! A must-have for all gardeners with roses or who want to grow roses.

Very Helpful

Growing Beautiful Roses: Your Guide to Creating an Easy-Care Garden Full of Fragrance and Color This is an easy to follow book with good suggestions about taking care of your roses. Liked its easy to follow style

Growing Roses Organically

This book is an outstanding resource not only for rose gardeners, but also for gardeners in general. I learned all sorts of useful facts about growing plants organically. The book is beautifully written and easy to understand. The illustrations are excellent. This book is attractive enough to be given as a gift. Wilde has given us a treasure: her vast experience and great love of gardening.

Great instructions and info, plus beautiful pictures

This is a practical, pretty, and highly useful book for anyone who wants to smell the roses, especially in climates less temperate than the west coast. The number of roses included is far from encyclopaedic, but for the roses Ms Wilde does include, she reports thoroughly on on their disease susceptibility, growth habit, hardiness, fragrance, and more. In nearly all cases, a gorgeous color photo accompanies. In fact, stripped of its useful information, this book would still be a fine buy for its large color photos. Before the gallery of roses, you'll find clear and helpful instructions about how to prepare for planting and how to accomplish the actual planting. Although the emphasis obviously centers on organic methods, this is a fine general reference on growing roses.The book itself seems reasonably well put together. I haven't spent months poring over it yet, but I do not have the early feeling of dread when a poorly glued book seems ready to fall apart in my hands. Probably part of the reason is that the book is large enough to be helpful, but not so large that its very size works to break it apart. The format, in other words, allows for some large and luscious eye candy, but it is not as big as many modern illustrated gardening books which should really come with their own stands. Photographs, clear drawings, and lucid instructions and descriptions make this book a pleasure to own and and treasure to use.

Direct, simple instructions and details

Growing Roses Organically: Your Guide To Creating An Easy-Care Garden Full Of Fragrance And Beauty by garden designer and horticulturalist expert Barbara Wilde is a fabulous, full-color guide to creating a beautiful organic garden tailored to the rose-lover's tastes. Direct, simple instructions and details on a wide variety of roses enhance this superb reference which is ideal for gardeners of all skill levels. From the basics of getting started; through issues such as watering, fertilizing, pruning, disease and insect infestation; to the details of designing rose gardens (included the Mixed Border; Wild Gardens, Hedging, and Wildlife Gardens), Barbara Wilde writes with an accessibility that is as informative as it is easy-to-apply. Of special note is chapter ten, "A Gallery of Roses". If you aspiring to growing a garden of roses, begin your preparations by giving Barbara Wilde's Growing Roses Organically a careful reading!