Roses for Canadians for Dummies

, by Green, Douglas; Waldheim, Lance; Canadian Gardening Journal; National Gardening Association (U. S.)

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ISBN: 9781894413152 | 1894413156
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/2000

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Features a full-colour photo insert and hardiness zone map.Plant the rose garden you've always wanted! This book is your year-round guide to raising healthy, beautiful roses. Featuring Canada-specific information on hardy rose varieties, including the Explorer and Parkland series, plus advice for winterizing your plants, this book is your ultimate rose bible.Discover how to: Choose the best rose varieties for your area Protect against rose pests and diseases Plant your roses to encourage hardiness Water, mulch, fertilize, and prune Winterize your roses Locate Canadian rose resources

Introduction
About This Book Conventions Used in This Book Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Roses 101
Using Roses in Your Garden
All the Roses You Need to Know Colour Pictures
Growing Healthy Roses
The Part of Tens
Appendixes Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here
Roses 101
Everything You Need to Know about Roses Are Roses As Hard to Grow as Everyone Says?
Which Rose Should I Grow?
Where Do Roses Come From?
What Are Roses Made Of?
What's This Budding Thing All About?
How Are Roses Grouped?
Where Do Rose Cultivators Fit In?
Where Do New Roses Come From?
It's All about Flowers Anatomy of a Rose Petalling
Around Town Top Form But Does It Have Substance?
Where Do Rose Flowers Come From?
Hybrid tea roses Floribunda roses So When Do They Bloom, Anyway?
Roses That Bloom Once a Season
Rose Fragrance Locating Rose Scent Knowing Them with Your Nose Enhancing
Your Sniffing Pleasure Choosing Fragrant Varieties
The Climates of the Rose Cold Winters- Canadian Climate Conditions
Getting to know your hardiness zone Making some Canadian distinctions
A New Meaning for Red Hot Sultry Summers and Sweaty Roses Tiny Climates Not Just for Tiny Roses
Roses for All Roses for cold-winter climates Roses for areas with cool summers
Using Roses in Your Garden
Landscaping with Roses Painting the Landscape with Colourful Roses
Choosing Colour Schemes Mixing Plant Texture and Form Creating Style All Your Own Putting Roses to Work Using roses for hedges
Using roses for edgings Using roses for ground covers
Using roses for barriers Using roses on fences, arbours, and walls
Roses and Their Partners in the Garden
The Basics of Combining Plants Plants That Cover the Bases Perennials Annuals Roses and Herbs
Going for Leaves Silver-dusted leaves Grassy and spiky leaves White for When the Night
Is Bright
Growing Roses in Containers Putting the Right Roses in the Right Pot Containing the Roots Bigger is (usually) better Accessories for your pots
Potting Soil Simplified Planting Properly in Pots Caring for Roses Growing in Containers
All the Roses You Need to Know
Hybrid Teas Making Distinctions:
Unique Qualities of the Hybrid Teas Lining 'Em Up:
How to Plant Your Hybrid Teas Shearing Brutality:
Pruning Your Hybrid Teas Knowing Their Namesakes:
Hybrid Tea Types by Colour Red hybrid teas Pink hybrid teas Orange hybrid teas
Yellow hybrid teas White hybrid teas Lavender hybrid teas Multicoloured hybrid teas
Grandifloras Treat Them Like Hybrid Teas: Looking After Grandifloras
Grandifloras by Colour Red grandifloras Pink grandifloras Orange grandifloras Yellow grandifloras White grandifloras Lavender grandifloras
Multicoloured grandifloras
Polyanthas and Floribundas To France, Late 19th Century Floribundas: Workaholics of the Rose Garden
All This and Easy to Grow, Too Don't Plant Just One!
A Few of Our Favourite Things Red roses Pink roses Orange roses Yellow roses White roses Lavender roses Multicoloured roses
Miniature Roses Looking at Mini Form Tracing Their Tiny Origins Diminutive but not frail: Protecting and pruning Small but not less
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Roses for Canadians for Dummies

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