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Better than a Moat and Drawbridge: Old Garden Roses
If you are looking for fast-growing plants that will create a barrier but also be beautiful, try old garden roses.

Landscaping with Old Garden Roses
Using both once-blooming and repeat-blooming old roses in the landscape.
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Selecting an Old Garden Rose
Here is a list of the recognized rose classifications for Species and Old Garden Roses and ideas for using rose plants in various garden designs and landscape situations.
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A Collection of Heirlooms: Antique Roses, Part 1
Tired of thinking of roses as high maintenance and lovely nusiances? Try the antique roses!

Landscaping with Roses: Rose Classifications
The breakdown of roses into modern classifications, for both convention and future discussions
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Alba Roses (Rosa alba)
Alba roses are one of the Old Garden Rose classes and are characterized by their white, or nearly white flowers. But that's not all these lovely rose bushes offer...
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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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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?

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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Ayrshire Roses (Rosa arvensis)
Ayrshire roses have been used for hundreds of years in a variety of ways in gardens. Find out why, and how to care for your own piece of Old World charm!
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Bourbon Roses Reblooming Antiques
Bourbon roses were the first of the Old Garden Roses to have a repeating bloom period. These antique roses range in color and form but were very popular and fragrant...
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Brief History of Cultivated Roses
Roses have developed most recently in the last 200 years into the rose species known today; however, their origins can be traced back much further back in time.
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Centifolia Roses (Rosa centifolia)
Highly fragrant, gently nodding flowers - these are the "roses with a hundred petals". Find out more about how to use and care for Centifolia Roses.
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Creating Beds and Borders
A gardening book that highlights garden planning, design, plant selection and special techniques shared by some of the top gardeners in America.
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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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Fragrant Garden Perennial Plants
What could be more wonderful than strolling through a flower garden full of scent and fragrance? Here are some top perennial picks for a pleasing fragrant filled garden.
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Harvest and Autumn Themed Garden
Plant names are rich with charm and description. These annuals, perennials and shrubs all have fall, autumn or harvest themed names.
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Plant Profile Online Encyclopedia
An alphabetical listing of all the plant profiles covering flowering plants, garden shrubs, ornamental trees and more. An online plant encyclopedia with growing details.
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Roses? I Don’t Grow No Stinkin’ Roses!
Growing the perfect rose in the cottage garden, no matter where you live.
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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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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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In the Garden, Disappointed in Love
They say each one kills the thing they love - and my garden seems determined to prove it to me. It's never the dandelions that dwindle - only the plants of my dreams. So why does that make me smile?

Rose Beads ... uh... Rose Rosette Disease in Texas!
Be on the lookout for Rose Rosette Disease in your garden!
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Beware of the Passalong Plant
Why do you suppose some gardeners are so eager to share their surplus perennials? Because some of them are the zucchinis of ornamental gardening.
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Aromatherapeutic Roses
Travel step by step through the growing of a therapeutic rose garden with Marie Anakee.
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Aromatherapeutic Roses III
We're not done yet picking the right rose! You're climate may mean the world to your new friends.
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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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Joan Russell's Country Garden in British Columbia
Joan's Country Garden, where everything is organic, and most things have a purpose - including the weeds!
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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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Roses for the White Garden
There are so many white roses just perfect for the white garden or moon garden. How can you pick just one?! Here are a few suggested white roses for your flower garden.
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Aromatherapeutic Roses II
Learn more about picking the right roses for your aromatic rose garden!
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Books for Michigan Gardeners
Lone Pine Publishing is producing a comprehensive gardening series for each State. This reviews those available for Michigan.
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Clothing the Garden: Vines and their many uses.
Vines aren't just for climbing - they can cloak and brighten a multitude of spaces.
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Halloween Themed Garden Plants
Spooks, magic, ghouls, and black cats. October's All Hallow's Eve can be fun to celebrate in the garden with these Halloween named plants.
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Perfume in the Garden
Any garden can be the setting for a fiesta of scents, ranging from light and subtle to deep, musky and complex.
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Rose Garden Texts
A selection of rose texts for every experience level of gardener
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Seeing Red
Red, one of the most powerful colors in the spectrum, can add a warm look to your garden. There are many combinations of red flowers which will create striking displays.
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Tiny, Perfect Roses
Miniature roses offer all the beauty and elegance of their bigger sisters at a fraction the size. Perfect for containers, raised beds and small spaces.
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We Won't Forget You, Mark
A sad goodbye to our Rose Garden editor and friend, Mark Whitelaw

Winterizing Your Lower Mainland Garden
Make winterizing your garden easy this year with this list of things you can do before the storms hit to ensure a glorious spring.
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Cream of the Crop
Plan your winter "dream garden" to be filled with the best of the best - the highest award winning plants for your zone.
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Just Pretend it's an Annual
Roses as annuals? The idea sounds not only crazy, but wasteful at first hearing. But maybe it's not such a wild idea.
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Launching Spring!!
My first sign of spring wasn't a robin, but a brilliant cardinal in full song. What, sunshine and a peek of green sprouting here and there - and it's time to break out the tools!
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Pruning Old Rambler Roses
Pruning Old Climbing and Rambling Roses in the winter makes a hard job, easier.
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Pruning Your Climbing Rose - Part 2
Part 2 on how and when to prune climbing roses.
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