

Garden Gladiators
Growing beautiful gardens is always a challenge. If you have one problem and you can figure out a way to get around it another one is....
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Sep 1, 2021


Rose Rhetoric: Good Advice, Bad Advice
When cooler weather begins settling over the rose garden with the potential for a light frost, rose gardeners begin seeking advice on how...
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Sep 1, 2021


Sharing Roses - When Shouldn't We
“Roses are prettiest when shared” is the motto of the Jacksonville Rose Society. As hobby gardeners and rosarians, we all love roses!
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Aug 30, 2021


Nutritional Deficiency in Roses
When your roses are looking stressed, have yellow foliage with green veins or leaf edges are brown, it’s time to look at nutrient...
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Aug 27, 2021


Divine David Austin Roses
David C. H. Austin was born in 1926 on a farm in Shropshire, England. He came from a long line of farmers, though none of them breeders...
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Aug 6, 2021


The History & the Beauty of Madame Hardy
‘Madame Hardy’ (aka Mme Hardy) is a superb classic old rose and one of history’s best. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful...
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Aug 6, 2021


Pain Can Rob You of Joy in the Rose Garden
OUCH!! Gardening can make your back, legs, hips, shoulders, and arms HURT! If you jump into a full day of raking, pruning, digging...
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Aug 6, 2021


How Long Does a Rose Bush Live?
A question that I have been asked a number of times this year is “How long does the average rose bush live?” This is a question that...
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Aug 6, 2021


Rose Garden Oddities: Funny Buds and Phyllody
Most of the time when you go out into the garden you see what you expect to see. Beautiful foliage on strong plants topped with wonderful...
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Aug 5, 2021


Rose Garden Lingo, A Jocular Interpretation
The hobby of growing roses encompasses a vast array of ‘people, places, and things’, and can lead to interesting outgrowths such as...
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Aug 5, 2021