Growing Guides

Things to Avoid When Roses are Weakened

Things to Avoid When Roses are Weakened

Your rose looks terrible. Yellow leaves. Droopy stems. No new growth in weeks. And your first instinct — the one every gardener feels in their bones — is to do...

Why do cut roses wilt quickly in a vase?

Why do cut roses wilt quickly in a vase?

You cut the most perfect roses from your garden. You arrange them carefully — the big fragrant ones in front, the little buds tucked in like surprises.

Common Mistakes in Watering Rose Plants

Common Mistakes in Watering Rose Plants

Here's a hard truth most rose growers learn the expensive way: It's usually not pests that kill a rose. It's not the soil. It's not even the variety.

Conditions for standardizing color and shape of roses

Conditions for standardizing color and shape of...

You know the feeling. You fall in love with a photo — that perfect, swirled, jewel-toned bloom — you plant the rose, it flowers… and the bloom looks almost...

Care and fertilization for vibrant colored flowers

Care and fertilization for vibrant colored flowers

Have you ever bought a rose for its catalog photo — that impossible crimson, that electric pink — and then watched your own bush bloom in… a polite pastel?...

4 rose varieties for mixed planting

4 rose varieties for mixed planting

Some roses can't decide what color they want to be. And honestly? We love them for it.