Different Types of Shade in the Garden Shade gardening doesn’t produce good results with a one-size-fits-all approach, because there is more than one kind of shade. When planning what to plant in a shady spot in your garden or yard, be confident about what kind of … [Read more...]
Rose Gardening Diseases
While roses often do succumb to diseases of various kinds, some varieties of rose are less susceptible than others. So, if you are planting a new rose garden try to stick to resistant species if you can. Rose gardening diseases are generally categorized as being either fungal … [Read more...]
Rose Gardening Pests
If you prepare your soil and follow good cultivation procedures, growing roses can be a hugely rewarding task. But while you may love your roses to death, there are also some pests that love them too – and if they make a meal of your roses, the roses WILL die! If you are … [Read more...]
How to Prune Roses
This video from Utah State University Extension is a great resource. You can tell by the way this video flows that he is used to educating folks on how to prune roses. The whole video walks you completely through pruning one rose bush. The guy in the video evidently loves to … [Read more...]