Growing Beautiful Roses: Your Guide to Creating an Easy-Care Garden Full of Fragrance and Color

by Barbara Wilde

Growing Beautiful Your Guide to Creating an Easy-Care Garden Full of Fragrance and Color

Have you always wanted to plant roses but are afraid they are too difficult to grow? Fear no more. Growing Beautiful Roses takes the intimidation (and the chemicals) out of growing the world's most legendary flower.

This gorgeous and rich instructional guide offers a holistic approach to growing these perennial favorites. Author Barbara Wilde presents tips and advice for choosing healthy roses, preparing the soil, and recognizing and preventing disease; plus, she takes the mystery out of pruning. Perhaps even more valuable, Wilde includes a gallery of more than 100 remarkable roses that are the most hardy and the most disease and pest resistant, making them the best roses for organic gardening. In addition, she takes you beyond the rigidity of a formal rose garden by showing you how to combine roses with other plants, including grasses, herbs, wildflowers, vines, shrubs, perennials, and annuals.

Genres: Gardening

278 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

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.

When not writing, Barabara 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.

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has a lot of detail on specific roses, so it would be useful if you’re actively choosing which roses to plant next.

[Tilden · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book if you are planning to plant and grow roses. Not too detailed about how to organically grow organic roses once you have them. I inherited about ten rose bushes that have mildew and black spot and I don't know how to care for them so I want detailed instructions. I don't even know what kind of roses they are.

[Baroness · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good gardening info.