Product Description: Even though nowadays roses are cultivated mostly for their beauty, previous ages have not been so singularly narrow-minded. Even at the turn of the century many people in appreciation of the fragrance, sweet flavor, and medicinal virtues of rose petals, hips, and leaves, still took pleasure in age-old traditional ways of making perfumes, sweet waters, jams, jellies, salads, sauces, and various kinds of confections with roses...read more

A celebration of the Queen of Flowers includes a look at the rose in history and literature, its influence on the fine and decorative arts, and the methods used by modern breeders and cultivators

Traces the history of five generations of the Meilland family and depicts their involvement in the cultivation, marketing, and breeding of roses

Product Description: Book by Richardson, Rosamond

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

Traces the history of the rose, shows how to use shrub, standard, rambling, and climbing roses, tells how to cultivate roses, and describes two hundred popular varieties

Product Description: Austin, David

Product Description: Reddell's first book, Growing Good Roses is a classic and can't be topped for beginning would-be rose growers.

Product Description: The rose has been celebrated throughout history as the queen of flowers. In breathtaking photos, Josh Westrich has magically captured the old rose varieties that are today's garden favorites, as well as some of the choicest modern hybrids. 168 illustrations, 84 in color.

Offers expert advice on selecting, planting, and protecting 79 different modern rose varieties, including floribundas, grandifloras, hybrid teas, and miniatures

Product Description: Which roses grow best in a small garden?What companion plants complement a rose border? How do you 'modernize' a rose garden? All these and more are answered in the new edition of Sunset's Roses. Everything for the novice or experienced rose devotee is here-the latest advice on shopping for roses, growing techniques, planning a rose garden, maintaining healthy roses, regional tips, and yes, detailed pruning instructions (no more 'ouch...read more

A brief history of roses in the garden is provided with commentaries on planning, planting, and producing, and with descriptions of some rose gardens in England

Tells how to select roses, and answers common questions about cultivation, pruning, pests, diseases, propagation, exhibiting, feeding, planting and staking

Cut in half your time and effort tackling garden tasks! Gardeners throughout the world have turned to Dr. D.G. Hessayon for authoritative guidance on everything from planting fruits and vegetables to house plants and flower arranging. His best-selling Expert series, which has sold more than 39 million copies, continues with expert tips on trouble-free gardening.Easy-Care Gardening Expert gives you solutions and shortcuts you never knew existed -- it's like having a professional gardener looking over your shoulder to share with you his years of hard-earned wisdom! Pick shrubs and trees to create a "skeleton" for great shape year-round; discover which herbs are practically worry-free, and where to plant them; or try the hundreds of other amazingly useful and easy-to-follow pieces of advice. Complete with gorgeous full-color photos ad illustrations of healthy blooms and gardens, this isn't just another gardening guide. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Secrets of the Miniature Rose is one of the first books devoted exclusively to miniature roses. This reprinted and updated edition, which includes more than 75 color photographs of all colors and varieties, is a complete planting guide for these lovely and popular household and garden adornments...read more

Shows and describes the background and uses of more than thirty kinds of roses, and includes advice on cultivating roses

Product Description: A bouquet of roses can signify friendship, concern, sympathy - and, of course, love. This book offers garden lovers a full-colour exploration of the world of roses.'

Product Description: 1st edition 1990 printing Sammis Publication Corp.

Offers advice on designing a rose garden, includes information on rose cultivation, and suggests useful companion plants

Provides historical background and detailed cultivation information for six hundred varieties of old roses