Plants add height, color and visibility to a garden bed, but they require support and careful pruning to ensure dramatic display Gardening is an activity that really helps us to relieve stress, but it ...

A light fall trim keeps your roses tidy and resilient through winter storms. “A fall prune can be a little less precise when ...

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 ...

With the range of colors, shapes and sizes of roses available, it’s possible to have blooms from May through the fall frost. Here are tips and tricks for planting and growing potted roses. Laura ...

Tree roses look like children’s drawings of plants, with their straight trunks, bushy green balls at the top and colorful blotches of blooms. They look like lollipops, fantasy plants: Tree roses ...

As a gardening educator, one of my biggest challenges is to get people to do the right thing at the right time. Take planting roses, for instance. Nurseries generally get in their new roses in January ...

Roses are the jewels of the summer garden with their gorgeous color and fragrance, and they look equally at home in a cottage or formal outdoor setting. And, considering how many varieties are out ...

Roses are meant to mingle with other plants in the garden. Their bold blooms pair beautifully with floral sprays, spikes, spheres, and spillers, while the leggy stems of climbing roses provide the ...

Many people moving to Fort Myers from “up North” want to grow the same roses that they grew in their Northern gardens. They may find that some varieties are difficult to grow in Southwest Florida and ...

For many gardeners, roses get — and demand — more attention than most any other of their landscape plants. It is almost impossible to walk past a rose in full bloom without truly stopping to smell its ...

We have all experienced garden pests ruining our plants at some point. Those pesky tiny creatures can inflict significant damage on even the most meticulously managed outdoor spaces. Dealing with ...