Product Description

Growing Roses in Cold Climates is also destined to be a landmark in gardening publishing. Providing gardeners with tips and techniques drawn from 60 years of rose-growing experience, this fully illustrated guide to expertly growing roses in cold climate regions includes easily accessible information on more than 700 varieties of roses best suited to cooler climates.

Eleven major classes of roses are profiled in detail, complete with photographs and guidance on achieving ideal growing conditions. Step-by-step photos, complete with instructions, show exactly how to protect roses in winter. Growing Roses in Cold Climates also illustrates common organic and inorganic rose problems and their remedies. This is the book that rose growers in colder climates have been clamoring for, for years!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #542737 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Ingram
As they did for perennials in the first book in this series, Whitman and Olson now do for roses. They give cold-climate growers the scoop on more than 700 varieties, a five-star rating system for selecting the best for an area, and offer organic and inorganic remedies for common rose problems. Tips and hints are drawn from 60 years of hands-on growing experience and detailed mail order source lists. Truly the cold-climate gardener's bible. Index. 200 full-color photos.

From the Publisher
The second book in the Cold Climate Gardener's Library, Growing Roses in Cold Cimates contains everything a gardener needs to know about growing healthy, hardy roses in cold climate conditions.

As many as 65 percent of America's gardeners live in colder regions, and based on extensive market research, gardeners in cold climates need, and are willing to pay for, specific information on growing roses under adverse conditions. This handsome, comprehensive, and fully-illustrated volume contains pertinent information for growing 700 varieties of roses; a five-star rating system based on extensive field testing that helps readers select the very best roses for cold climates; organic and inorganic remedies for common rose problems; tip and hints drawn from 60 years of hands-on growing experience; and detailed mail order source lists for each class of rose. From the basics, including step-by-step photos that show exactly how to winter-protect roses to advanced methods of propogation, this growing guide has it all. It is truly the cold climate rose gardener's bible.