Roses: A Growing Guide for Easy, Colorful Gardens

by Mary C. Weaver

Burpee Basics: Growing Guides for Easy, Colorful Gardens Down-to-earth handbooks for beginning gardeners "Our new series of concise gardening guidebooks continues Burpee's proud tradition of giving gardeners the essentials they need. These handy little books have a great deal in common with seeds: each one contains all you need to start a wonderful gardening experience....Even the most experienced gardeners attend to the basic practices that you'll...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028626362
• ISBN13: 9780028626369
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A treasure of a book!!!

Exceedingly well researched and clearly presented, this book makes roses doable for everyone-no matter the climate, type of rose, or gardener's experience. There are terrific sections on choosing roses (grafting or own-root, grades, where to buy, etc.), planting, and general care. But the best part is "the rose gallery"-a list of 100 most carefree roses from among all the rose types, including old roses, modern ones, shrubs, and climbers. Weaver checked with some 70 rosarians, plant pathologists, and nursery growers in 40 states and weighed disease resistance, hardiness, general vigor, and overall performance to come up with the list. Each rose gets a good description and most have photos. A wonderful book.