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Growing Roses Organically: Your Guide to Creating an Easy-Care Garden Full of Fragrance and Beauty (Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
Barbara Wilde
Not many gardeners can resist the beauty of a rose-- a flower so divine and graceful in appearance and, in many cases, so wonderfully fragrant that it evokes thoughts of love and romance at first encounter. Many gardeners, however, also see a fussy plant that's hard to grow and needs special attention, as well as a host of chemicals to keep diseases and pests at bay.
In Growing Roses Organically, Barbara Wilde challenges the myth that growing roses has to be a time-consuming task that you can't do effectively without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In fact, she takes the intimidation out of growing roses by sharing her well-rounded, holistic approach for success. Wilde starts with tips for choosing healthy varieties, including hints for buying the best bareroot and container plants. She guides you through careful soil preparation and proper planting techniques and offers advice on how to gently intervene when it comes to pest and disease problems. Wilde also demystifies pruning-- a task that perplexes many gardeners. Her step-by-step explanation of various techniques makes this task doable for every gardener, including beginners.
You'll also find invaluable information in A Gallery of Roses, an eye-catching identification guide that boasts more than 100 roses best suited for organic gardening techniques. Each entry in the gallery includes a detailed description of the rose and its best uses, as well as ratings for fragrance, disease susceptibility, and shade tolerance.
To round out Growing Roses Organically, you'll discover how to incorporate roses into your garden. Wilde dismisses the notion that you need to grow roses in a formal setting and instead presents four garden designs that incorporate roses with everything from perennials and wildflowers to trees and shrubs. Her design do's and don'ts along with winning plant combinations demonstrate how naturally roses fit into the landscape.
In sharing her wisdom and experience, Barbara Wilde shows that growing roses doesn't have to be labor-intensive or frustrating. By choosing the right varieties and providing proper care, roses really can be a welcome part of every garden-- including yours.
About the author:
Barbara Wilde has been gardening organically since the age of 17, when her Swiss grandmother first introduced her to gardening. As owner of a midwestern specialty plant nursery, Barbara spent 10 years exploring garden design and ornamental horticulture and growing heirloom and European fruits, vegetables, and cut flowers organically. As a garden designer and education specialist for a premier midwestern landscape firm, she developed staff training curriculum and pioneered organic landscaping techniques still in use by the firm today.
Barbara has written for Horticulture magazine and Rodale publications and is the regular garden columnist for Indianapolis Woman magazine. A frequent public speaker on horticulture, she is known for her ecologically sensitive designs that use a wide variety of unusual plants.
Barbara currently lives in Paris, where she maintains her own Web site, www.frenchgardening.com. At the site, you can find articles on French gardens, practical gardening advice, favorite plants, kitchen gardening, her life in Paris, and even cooking-- her (barely) subordinate passion. When not writing content for the site, Barbara spends her time traveling throughout France searching for traditional French garden seeds and artisanal products, including tools, books, and decorating items, which she sells on her Web site. She also gardens with her companion, Denis, on their Parisian terrace and on weekends at an old Normandy farmhouse.
Hardcover: 278 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 9.44 x 7.84
Publisher: Rodale Press; (May 1, 2002)
$35.00
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American Rose Society Encyclopedia of Roses
Charles Quest-Ritson,Brigid Quest-Ritson,American Rose Society
Usually ships in 2 to 5 weeks Featuring a fascinating history of the rose, origins of individual names, and a showcase of the world's best-loved roses, the ARS Encyclopedia... [read more]
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Best Rose Guide: A Comprehensive Selection
Roger Phillips,Martyn Rix
Usually ships in 24 hours This authoritative guide covers 850 roses and bridges the divide between scientific texts and everyday horticultural books. The book explains how to... [read more]
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Complete Guide to Roses
Ortho Books,Michael McKinley
Usually ships in 24 hours Detailed information to select, plant, propagate, water, fertilize, and protect roses from pests and disease
Eye-popping color photographs and profiles feature the 500... [read more]
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Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book
Graham Stuart Thomas
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In Search of Lost Roses
Thomas Christopher,University of Chicago Press
Usually ships in 24 hours Once upon a time--before the 1860s--people loved old roses like "Pearl of Gold," "Marchionesse of Lorne," or "Autumn Damask." Then along came... [read more]
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Lois Hole's Rose Favorites
Lois Hole,Jill Fallis,Akemi Matsubuchi,Lois Holes
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Old-fashioned and David Austin Roses
Barbara Lea Taylor,Juliet Nicholas
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Rose and the Clematis
John, Dr Howells
Usually ships in 24 hours Author John Howells claims that the climbing rose and the clematis are natural planting companions; both have an urge to reach for... [read more]
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Roses
Hazel White,Philip Roses Edinger,Sunset Books
Usually ships in 24 hours Everything for the novice or experienced rose devotee is here--the latest advice on shopping for roses, growing techniques, planning a rose garden,... [read more]
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Roses (Garden Guides)
Richard Rosenfeld
Usually ships in 24 hours Covering all you need to know about your favorite plants in a beautiful and convenient format, DK Garden Guides profile one type... [read more]
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Roses for Dummies
Lance Walheim,The Editors of the National Gardening Association
Usually ships in 24 hours A rose book by any other name wouldn't sell as sweet! The first edition of Roses For Dummies "RM" sold 63,000 copies... [read more]
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Roses for Michigan
Nancy Lindley,Laura Peters
Usually ships in 24 hours A practical and beautifully photographed guide to over 100 recommended roses for Michigan. This common-sense resource covers the most important information concerning... [read more]
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Roses for the Pacific Northwest
Christine Allen
Usually ships in 24 hours Sooner or later every gardener comes around to roses. Of all flowers in all the gardens of the world, roses seem to... [read more]
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Roses for Washington and Oregon
Brad Jalbert,Laura Peters
Usually ships in 24 hours Color photos and descriptions showcase 144 roses, from heirloom varieties to new hybrids appropriate for the Northwest's growing conditions. Includes an overview... [read more]
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Roses: A Celebration
Wayne Winterrowd,Pamela Stagg
Usually ships in 24 hours Among the plant kingdom, Rosa is a relatively small genus, comprising only about one hundred species around the globe. But as these... [read more]
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The New Rose Expert
D.G. Hessayon
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The Organic Rose Garden
Liz Druitt,Virginia Brown
Usually ships in 24 hours Provides the comprehensive information needed to grow roses simply and safely, the organic way.... [read more]
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The Rose: An Illustrated History
Peter Harkness
In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. A spectacularly illustrated reference.
Roses are valued for many reasons including beauty, symbolism, fragrance, and history. The Rose tells the fascinating story... [read more]
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Arranging Roses
Emma Gray,Peter McHoy Arranging Roses features a wealth of projects which make the most of every kind of rose: miniature roses, modern and traditional roses,... [read more]
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Beautiful Roses
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Climbing Roses of the World
Charles Quest-Ritson Climbing and rambling roses are sources of grace and dignity in the finest gardens. This book is the first completely new volume... [read more]
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Complete Rose Encyclopedia
NICO VERMEULEN This comprehensive volume is a pictorial guide to one of the most popular groups of plants in the world, providing an indispensable... [read more]
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Growing Roses in Cold Climates
Jerry Olson,John Whitman,Paulette Rickard Growing Roses in Cold Climates is also destined to be a landmark in gardening publishing. Providing gardeners with tips and techniques drawn... [read more]
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Modern Roses XI: The World Encyclopedia of Roses
Thomas Cairns,Marily Young,Jolene Adams,Bob Edberg
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Rosa Gallica
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Rosa Rugosa
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Rose (Abrams' Books for Gardeners)
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger,Harry Haralambou,Theodore James
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Roses
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Roses (A Firefly Guide)
Orietta Sala,Monica Spezia Roses are the unrivaled divas of any garden. In this book, Orietta Sala presents a complete guide to roses that starts by... [read more]
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Roses (Naturebooks)
Peter Murray
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Roses for Today
Peter Harkness
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Roses in Modern Gardens
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Roses: Beautiful Ideas for Home and Celebration
Antonia Swinson
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Shrub Roses and Climbing Roses
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The Book of Roses (Book Of...)
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The Natural Rose Gardener
Lance Walheim,Scott Millard,Don Fox
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The Organic Rose Garden
Liz Druitt,Virginia Brown This is a delicious book! Taste tempting with recipes for rose petal jam and rose hip soup, The Organic Rose Garden, is... [read more]
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The Rose in My Garden
Arnold Lobel,Anita Lobel
Usually ships in 24 hours Start with a single rose. Add hollyhocks and marigold, sunflowers and zinnias. Voilà! A quiet, tranquil, beautiful garden grows before your eyes.... [read more]
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The Rose's Kiss
Peter Bernhardt
Usually ships in 24 hours Among the open alpine meadows of north-western America grows a beautiful wild flower, a species of Jacob's ladder. High in the mountains,... [read more]
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The Secrets of the Miniature Rose
Elizabeth Abler
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