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Rose to the Occasion: An Easy-Growing Guide to Rose Gardening (Easy-Growing Gardening)
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About Rose To The Occasion: An Easy-Growing Guide To Rose
Product Description Roses are the Queen of Flowers. They're beautiful, fragrant, and elegant - and roses require all the pampering of a real Queen, don't they? Actually, they don't! Rose gardening can be easy and pleasant. I've worked 25 years in horticulture and cared for over 300 roses in a public rose garden when I was municipal horticulturist. I found ways to keep rose gardening fussbudgetry to a minimum while growing vigorous roses that bloomed their heads off. Rose to the Occasion: An Easy-Growing Guide to Rose Gardening shares tricks and shortcuts that rosarians use, plus simple ways you can keep up with your to-do list in the rose garden. Gardeners of all skill levels will find this book helpful, whether they be beginning gardeners or old rosarians, whether they have a green thumb or a brown thumb. Rose to the Occasion includes* old illustrations of roses in bloom, plus historical background on each flower * down-to-earth wisdom on how to plant, grow, and prune roses* the in and out of fertilizing roses to get the lushest foliage and best blooms * advice on choosing the right rose for your garden, as well as many easy-growing varieties * the latest on organic pest control and fungicide use in the rose garden * hardy, tough old roses that can take whatever Mother Nature throws at them * and general garden maintenance help that you can use anywhere in the garden.If you love The Rose Bible by Rayford Clayton Reddell, or books by David Austin, or books like Right Rose, Right Place; or Everyday Roses: How to Grow Knock Out® and Other Easy-Care Garden Roses; or The Organic Rose Garden, and if you like garden books leavened with humor -- then this book is for you. Rose to the Occasion is the ultimate resource for any rose gardener, or anybody in need of good gardening advice. Roses are filled with romance, history, color, and fragrance. Grow some. It is worth it. Review The quality of the writing is excellent. There are many beautiful photos of roses throughout the book. There are chapters on choosing the best rose variety, shopping for roses, caring for roses, pruning and training, solving growing problems, beneficial insects, propagation, and monthly checklists. As someone new to roses care and rose gardening, I found this book to be more than adequate. I inherited some roses at my house from the previous owner so I was looking to better understand how to take better care of my roses and also learn the differences between hybrid tea, floribunda, grandiflora and polyantha, etc, as I am starting from scratch in learning how to identify my roses. This book includes helpful information on using both inorganic and organic methods of controlling diseases and pests, which I found most helpful as I am also just learning about common rose diseases and pests and insects that are harmful to roses. In the 'Praying Mantis' beneficial insects section, the author writes: "If you put a mantid on your computer screen and start moving the cursor around on the screen,sometimes the mantid will chase it and try to catch it." I thought that was pretty cute. I also learned a new term, 'rose wranglers', apparently these are folks who seek out old roses that still probably grow on old cemeteries or abandoned houses, and the wranglers may sometimes come across old roses/antique roses on private property and talk to the owners to get permission to collect some. So if you already have roses which are pretty established, this book offers great information on how to control rose diseases, how often to fertilize, etc. If you are starting from scratch, then this book will be one of your go-to and must-have books with plenty of good information on how to select, shop and plant roses, and the whole cycle of ongoing care and maintenance.There seems to not be that many comprehensive recent books on the market about roses care and rose gardening, so I was pleased to come across this title. The author also has a humorous tone and will put the novice rose
