Dreaming of summer blooms? If you've been meaning to add a new rose to your garden this year, consider this your gentle ...

Winter is the perfect time to repot your container roses. During this season the roses are slowing down, resting and dropping leaves in preparation for the surge of growth to come in early spring. At ...

January is historically a dry month in the garden, so most years it is a fine time to plant roses and deciduous fruit trees, such as apples and plums. They will be more plentiful at nurseries in the ...

Clear plastic shoeboxes make for suitable rooting cases. Learn how to grow a rose from a cutting and a slip using the hardwood or softwood propagation technique. Roses are surprisingly easy to root. I ...

Hardwood rose cuttings are best propagated from fall to late winter. Adding rooting hormone helps hardwood cuttings root faster. Winter propagated cuttings should root and be ready for planting by the ...

When I think about my grandmother's garden, I remember rows and rows of glass jars called into service as mini-greenhouses for the rose stems she was coaxing to root in the shady soil between the ...

Shape the plant by cutting back any rangy stems at a 45-degree angle facing away from the bud. Prune it back enough to account for new growth that will likely add height and width in the upcoming ...