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David Austin English Roses Review
Started many years ago by David Austin's vision of breeding Old Garden Rose vigor with repeat blooming and color features of hybrid tea roses, this company knows a rose.
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The English Roses by David Austin
A review of the book by master rosarian and breeder, David Austin who brought English Roses to gardeners world-wide as he shares the struggle to produce the perfect rose.
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English Alba Hybrid Roses
These English Roses are developed from Alba roses giving them the wild-rose daintiness, gently nodding flowers and a lighter scent than other English Roses.
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The English Leander Group Roses
These English Roses retain a growth habit closer to the modern roses and tend to be a bit showier than the other groups. See some favorite Leander Group selections.
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Chelsea Gold: great plants from the Chelsea Flower Show 2001
Under the floral pavilions at the Chelsea Fower Show, 2001, the best growers in the UK unveiled their newest and their best plants.
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Classifications of Modern Roses
Selecting the right rose plant can be a daunting task. Take a look at the modern rose classifications to find a class of roses suited for your garden area.
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English Climbing Roses
Large, shrubby roses with stems that are more flexible than typical hybrid teas make these excellent roses for trellis, pagoda, fences or other climbing situations.
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English Musk Rose Hybrids
English Musk Roses are related to Noisettes and Hybrid Musk Roses so they tend to have paler foliage, more delicate flowers and great disease resistance.
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Off-Season Dreaming, or, To Cuddle With Catalogs - Part II
Descriptions of the first part of a baker's dozen of the author's favorite catalogs and corresponding web sites.
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Rose Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new rose plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and attractive foliage forms can all be found.
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The English Old Rose Hybrid Roses
The original English Roses are a result of breeding Old Roses with Hybrid Teas and Floribundas and this group is close to Old Roses in character.
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Aromatherapeutic Roses IIII
Can't locate that ancient Damask? Want a rose that is not a once blooming OGR? Tempted by all the hybrid teas being sold around you? Well, give in! That's right, you can have a fragrant rose garden with hybrids too.
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More White Garden Roses
More white roses perfect for the all white garden or moon garden. Every flower garden deserves at least one rose!
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Roses for Cold Climates
Love roses, but hate the work? Here's news on the latest developments in hardy shrub roses that will solve your problems.
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Trends For Our Times - Next Years's Designer Plants
Plant hybridizers are the designers of the plant world - and some even get famous - because they know the secret of marketing - which is to tap into the trends.

One Garden - Two Pairs of Eyes
You may both be looking at the same garden - but you may both be seeing something entirely different.

Summer Inspirations
We are now at the height of the summer season with roses and clematis in abundance. Garden visiting is a popular pastime in England as elsewhere, now is the time to visit some of these private gardens for inspirational ideas for next season.
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Flower Power
Floriferous plants that carry on flowering through late summer and autumn.
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Alternatives to Easter Chocolate
If your child can't or won't eat chocolate, here are some ideas for Easter treats that are just as much fun as a chocolate egg.
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Explore Boerner Botanical Gardens
Boerner Botanical Gardens has a rich historical past among Milwaukee parks. While visiting the Midwest, explore a heritage rose collection at this botanical garden.
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Uses of Rose Throughout History
The Rose has been in use for thousands of years by many civilizations; its uses have been various and obscure. Its popularity, however, has never wavered.
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An English Summer
I explore the plants of an English garden in high summer.
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FLOWERS, BUDS AND PETALS
When it comes to herbs, roses may not be the first plant that comes to mind. Yet they've been a mainstay in herb gardens for centuries.
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Gifts for the Gardener
Stymied about what to get the garden lover on your holiday shopping list? Here are some suggestions for all the different gardeners in your life.
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If Winter is over surely Spring will follow
Gardening at "Kibbenjelok" last weekend, I remarked that the Helleborus were grateful for the gentle Winter conditions.

Roses of Another Stripe: Curiosities of the Rose World
Roses arered, yes. And white, pink, yellow, orange. But how about a green rose? One with stripes? Maybe polka dots?

Variety, Variety, Variety....
Is your garden boring? Part One of Three on gardening with roses..
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Add A Little "Scents" To Your Garden
Have you ever taken a drive on a balmy spring day and caught the scent of a stand of lilac bushes? Perhaps in the summer, you have notices a hint of honeysuckle on the air. Scents can bring back powerful, long forgotten memories. It can create marvelous new ones. This article is going to explore some of the choices of scented plants available to gardeners of the Great Lakes Region. Don't let that stop you if you don't live in our neck of the woods! Many of the plants discussed do well all around the United States and Canada. Come and visit for a while, and be prepared to become inspired!
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An English Garden in High Summer
Key front row performers for your garden. Covering such plants as old fashioned roses, a host of clematis and other star performers of the summer garden.
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I'm a Gertrude Jekyll Wannabe: Mistakes Beginning Gardeners Make
Unless you have an estate sized garden, and a small staff of gardeners, some borders are just a bit ambitious.
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Mid-summer roses of distinction
Mid-summer in England means roses. We have look at some roses old and new for the small garden.
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My Garden, the Awkward Adolescent
In its adolescence garden gets a sort of confused and awkward look that is as uncomfortable for it as it is for the viewer - and it's going to take some tough love to straighten that out.
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Oh Good! The Lavender Died.
There's always room for one more.

Roses the Organic Way
Roses may not seem like the ideal candidate for organic gardening...but there are numerous effective non-toxic methods of controlling rose pests and diseases.
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The Accidental Gardener
This month is my last article on English Town Gardening and Suite 101. So I look back on my small garden's history and how quite by accident I became a gardener at all.
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A Rose Garden for Romance
A romantic rose garden - the kind we see in films and read about in novels - somehow just isn't one of the recipes you find in garden design books. So I've conconcted my own!
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Roses for Thanksgiving
Roses aren't just a summer flower. If you pick the right roses and prune them at the right time, you can enjoy their splendid blooms deep into fall.
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Secrets to an Almost Instant Secret Garden
Some quick growing plants that will help you to create a feeling of privacy in your garden.

Tapping into Trends - The Designer Plants of 1999
First we had designer gowns - originals by Dior, Chanel and the like. Then we had - designer jeans?? Not long ago I could swear I saw designer toilet paper in some upscale boutique. So why not designer plants? We already have the designers. Most people know them as hybridizers - and a few have achieved designer status.
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The RHS comes north
The Royal Horticultural Society comes to the north-west of England. With so many town and urban gardeners close by, including myself, this was an event not to miss.
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Workhorses and Soul Satisfiers - Plants I'd Never Give up.
There are some plants a gardener simply can't do without. More than pretty fillers of spaces, these guys do double or even triple duty in extending our gardening pleasure.
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An Almost No Work Sunny Garden, Part 1
Let's start with the basics - plants that ask little and give big - filling spaces with year round interest and few requirements - and some that even help you with your gardening work! This week we look at shrubs, vines and groundcovers for an almost no work garden. Next week we'll fill in the blanks with flowers.

Bareroot Roses - beginner style!
How to plant the roses that come in those little boxes. They are cheap, and some will tell you they're easy, but there are a few tips and tricks that are good to keep in mind.
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Spring Gardens: Problems and Promises
The anxiously awaited green things are peeping through the mulch - along with a few less pleasant surprises. Here we go again - Gardening time!


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