This is a busy month for the rose gardener. One of the most exciting activities is the selection of new roses for the garden. Choosing the right rose involves picking the color, fragrance and bloom ...

When it comes to gardening, we can count on Martha Stewart to always provide us with sound advice and fantastic tips, and this stands true for bare-root roses. The gardening expert recently shared a ...

Planting bare-root roses in autumn is the secret to beautiful blooms next year. An easy (and cheaper) alternative to potted roses, bare-root roses tend to establish more quickly in the garden, often ...

with the big fireworks display at Waterfront Park. Are you ready? The roses aren't -- unless we get some amazing weather. I don't have high hopes for that. The forecast is, however, conducive to ...

It is finally time to get the new gardening season started. Spring will be here before we know it and it’s good to be ahead of the game instead of playing catch-up for the rest of the year. While ...

WHILE the garden may be looking bare over the winter, now is the time to get your roses ready for summer. Gardening expert ...

Baldo Villegas grows close to 3,500 rose bushes in his Orangevale garden. Now is the time to get planting if you want to add roses to your garden collection. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] ...

With temperatures already feeling like spring, now is the time to take advantage of the vast selection of “bare-root” plants, specifically roses, in honor of Valentine’s Day. Why buy cut roses that ...

Rose lovers can brush up on winter rose care with Tom Carruth, curator of the Rose Collection at the Huntington, at a talk and sale on bare-root varieties on Jan. 12. Winter is considered prime ...

Bare root roses are cheaper, and more disease resistant than containerized roses. Ciscoe shows us how to plant these beautiful alternatives, touching on the book Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest ...

For Mother’s Day I was sent a bare-root rose bush. I put it into water in a pail. A week later I planted it. Now the thorns are all black and the buds are getting dried up. I have been watering it ...