The world's most respected rose breeder and expert offers fifty years of experience and knowledge, with advice on landscaping, care, and cultivation, including charming personal observations and plenty of sumptuous illustrations.

Product Description: Often called the “king of roses,” Peter Beales is the world’s most acclaimed professional rose grower, and this book is the distillation of his 50 years of experience and knowledge into one essential volume. Within these handsomely illustrated pages is Beales’s unequalled advice on landscaping with roses as well as care and cultivation―all based upon his decades of experience breeding and selling the world’s finest roses...read more

This is a landmark work by the world’s foremost authority on roses. Both a definitive history and an essential manual for all growers and lovers of roses, it contains a wealth of expert information on buying, propagating, feeding, and pruning old roses, shrub roses, and climbers. It is superbly illustrated with more than 600 color photos.

Product Description: Botanica's RosesR will prove to be one of the greatest rose books of all time. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the history and development of roses, examines roses in the landscape, and identifies and describes rose varieties (view table of contents)

A noted expert on roses leads a tour of some of the finest gardens in Europe and North America, providing interviews with the owners, profiles of two classic roses per garden, notes on cultivation, and more than two hundred full-color photographs.

A comprehensive, authoritative manual features information on nearly two thousand old, modern, and species roses, 1,096 four-color illustrations, a history of the cultivation of old and new roses, and much more.

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

A comprehensive work on the planting, cultivation, history, and definition of modern hybrid roses also includes a dictionary of more than 850 twentieth-century roses