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1: Rose Types

Planning a rose garden may seem like an overwhelming task.  Simply visiting your local garden center may both inspire and intimidate you.  With so many varieties, sizes and colors to choose ...

By: Joe Dively

2: Tips to Improving Your Rose Garden

Although roses have unfairly earned a reputation for being difficult to grow, a rose garden can be both simple and rewarding for even the most beginning gardener.  Maintenance and protection as w...

By: Joe Dively

3: Must Have Tools for Every Rose Garden

These days, so many tools are available to the home gardener, whether at your local garden center, superstore or an infomercial touting the benefits of their most recent garden invention.  You co...

By: Joe Dively

4: Starting A Rose Garden: From Seed to Flower

While the most common way to begin your rose garden is certainly with plants that are about two years old and are already well on their way to flowering, it is also very possible to start a rose garde...

By: Joe Dively

5: Heirloom Roses

Centuries ago, William Shakespeare’s Juliet said, “What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." Perhaps the saying is not as true as we would ...

By: Joe Dively

6: An Overview of Rose Gardening

Although roses have a reputation of being difficult to grow and keep, rose gardening is actually very simple and rewarding.  With careful planning and good maintenance, you can enjoy a beautiful ...

By: Joe Dively

7: Protecting Your Roses From Pests

You’ve put a lot of hard work into your rose garden:  preparing the soil, selecting your roses and planting them.  Now, you will want to keep those roses safe and protected from pests ...

By: Joe Dively

8: Why Roses Get Damaged or Die

Contrary to popular opinion, rose gardens are relatively simple to start and maintain.  Rose plants are hardy perennials, many of them surviving with little or no human intervention, growing wild...

By: Joe Dively

9: What Is Organic Rose Gardening?

The term “organic” seems to be everywhere these days, from the vegetables in the produce aisle to the cereal we eat in the morning.  There are many definitions and ideas about what tr...

By: Joe Dively

10: Basic Garden Care To Ensure Healthy Roses

Many of us think of a beautiful garden as an almost unattainable goal, and certainly, a rose garden seems even more intimidating.  Rose gardening has earned a reputation as being very difficult, ...

By: Joe Dively

Must Have Tools for Every Rose Garden

These days, so many tools are available to the home gardener, whether at your local garden center, superstore or an infomercial touting the benefits of their most recent garden invention.  You could spend hundreds of dol...

By: Joe Dively

Tips to Improving Your Rose Garden

Although roses have unfairly earned a reputation for being difficult to grow, a rose garden can be both simple and rewarding for even the most beginning gardener.  Maintenance and protection as well as careful pruning wi...

By: Joe Dively

Starting A Rose Garden: From Seed to Flower

While the most common way to begin your rose garden is certainly with plants that are about two years old and are already well on their way to flowering, it is also very possible to start a rose garden from seed.  Growin...

By: Joe Dively

Gardening doesn't have to be a pain in the neck, back, knees or hips for the millions of Americans who suffer from arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis or other painful disabilities.

A workshop about successful vegetable gardening will be offered at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at Lazy 5 Regional Park in Sparks, 7100 Pyramid Highway. Master Gardener Randy Robison will present the session. He...

Olivette will hold a series of free "Green Thumb" gardening lectures in February and March.