If you have a rosebush, one way to ensure it retains its beauty year after year is to prune it. Not only does pruning roses control the plant's shape and size, but removing dead, damaged, or diseased ...

February is traditionally a key month for pruning in the garden. George Washington's Birthday observed (Monday) has long been touted as the day to prune roses, but any time late February through ...

Gardening is an activity that really helps us to relieve stress, but it is not free of challenges. I am embarrassed to confess that I have had two unfortunate mishaps with tree roses. More accurately, ...

It’s been a tough year for roses. The cold snap in late fall hit before the plants had a chance to go dormant. The subzero cold in January with no snow cover was another punch to the plants. Then it ...

I have learned so much from my rose garden through the years. I have learned about roses, the insects in my garden and the value of companion planting. Interestingly, rose gardens and life teach us ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first identifying sites where roses would grow ...

I have an Austrian copper rose bush and this year a long branch came out from it that is red, like a Paul scarlet climber. Is it possible that this was a grafted rose and this was its original rose?