Profiles varieties of various types - approximately 1,000 different roses. With over 800 colour photographs and line-drawings, this book is a useful reference for those interested in roses. Each entry describes: flower colour, type and season; growth habit and foliage; particular merits or uses; the name of breeder; and date of introduction.

Product Description: Roses are the most popular garden flower--and this directory of over 200 species, from floribundas to climbers, simplifies every gardener's work while improving each garden's appearance. More than 120 images show possibilities most gardeners never consider--first on familiar topics such as selecting, planting, and pruning their favorites, and then on new choices that expand every year...read more

Product Description: Much more than a field guide, this beautiful and practical gift book will appeal to both the budding gardener and rose enthusiast. Specially commissioned photographs and illustrations demonstrate all the techniques needed to cultivate roses, and stand alone as artful depictions of this famous flower...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides instructions on choosing and buying roses; planting; propagating and pruning; coping with pests; and designing gardens, and describes the characteristics of popular varieties

Product Description: Every season sees the introduction of any number of new roses - big and bold, often garish, marketed to excess only to be found wanting and then to disappear from the catalogues as suddenly as they arrived. In the constant search for new varieties, the unchanging virtues of old fashioned roses have too often been lost...read more