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Plant the rose garden you've always wanted! This book is your year-round guide to raising healthy, beautiful roses. Featuring Canada-specific information on hardy rose varieties, including the Explorer and Parkland series, plus advice for winterizing your plants, this book is your ultimate rose bible.
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Part I: Roses 101
Chapter 1: Everything You Need to Know about Roses
Are Roses As Hard to Grow as Everyone Says?
Which Rose Should I Grow?
Where Do Roses Come From?
What Are Roses Made Of?
What's This Budding Thing All About?
How Are Roses Grouped?
Where Do Rose Cultivators Fit In?
Where Do New Roses Come From?
Chapter 2: It's All about Flowers
Anatomy of a Rose
Petalling Around Town
Top Form
But Does It Have Substance?
Where Do Rose Flowers Come From?
Chapter 3: Rose Fragrance
Locating Rose Scent
Knowing Them with Your Nose
Enhancing Your Sniffing Pleasure
Choosing Fragrant Varieties
Chapter 4: The Climates of the Rose
Cold Winters— Canadian Climate Conditions
Part II: Using Roses in Your Garden
Chapter 5: Landscaping with Roses
Painting the Landscape with Colourful Roses
Choosing Colour Schemes
Mixing Plant Texture and Form
Creating Style All Your Own
Putting Roses to Work
Chapter 6: Roses and Their Partners in the Garden
The Basics of Combining Plants
Plants That Cover the Bases
Chapter 7: Growing Roses in Containers
Putting the Right Roses in the Right Pot
Containing the Roots
Part III: All the Roses You Need to Know
Chapter 8: Hybrid Teas
Making Distinctions: Unique Qualities of the Hybrid Teas
Lining 'Em Up: How to Plant Your Hybrid Teas
Shearing Brutality: Pruning Your Hybrid Teas
Knowing Their Namesakes: Hybrid Tea Types by Colour
Chapter 9: Grandifloras
Treat Them Like Hybrid Teas: Looking After Grandifloras
Grandifloras by Colour
Chapter 10: Polyanthas and Floribundas
To France, Late 19th Century
Floribundas: Workaholics of the Rose Garden
All This and Easy to Grow, Too
Don't Plant Just One!
A Few of Our Favourite Things
Chapter 11: Miniature Roses
Looking at Mini Form
Tracing Their Tiny Origins
Chapter 12: Climbing Roses
So Many Climbers, So Little Time
Special Needs: Caring for Climbers
Up Against a Wall: Planting Climbers
Climbers in Every Colour of the Rainbow
Chapter 13: Shrub Roses
A Splendid Assortment of Shrub Roses
Taking It Easy
Shrub Roses by Colour
Chapter 14: Species and Old Garden Roses
What Cabbage Has to Do with Roses
Chapter 15: Explorer and Parkland Roses
What's So Wonderful about Them?
Getting Your Hands on Them
A Canadian Mosaic: Explorer and Parkland Roses by Colour
Part IV: Growing Healthy Roses
Chapter 16: Shopping for Roses
Whose Roots Are These, Anyway?
What Are Roots without Soil?
Going Shopping
Chapter 17: Planting Roses
If Roses Aren't Sick, Why Do They Need Healing?
Chapter 18: Watering and Mulching Roses
The Basic Watering Rules
Chapter 19: Fertilizing Roses
The Whats, Whens, and Whys of Fertilizing
Chapter 20: Pruning Roses
Why You Need to Prune
Tools of the Pruning Trade
Chapter 21: Protecting Roses Where Winters Are Cold
How Hardy Are They?
Preparing for a Cold Winter
Keeping Roses Cold
Planting Deep
Protecting Climbers and Tree Roses
Chapter 22: Outsmarting Rose Pests and Diseases
Preventing Problems
Identifying Rose Pests
Chapter 23: Making More Roses
Raiding a Rose Garden
Growing New Plants from Cuttings
Sexual Propagation
Hybridizing Roses
One More Thing, Sport!
Chapter 24: Drying Roses and Making Potpourri
Drying Roses in Silicon Valley North
Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 25: The Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions about Roses
From the Queen of Hearts School of Pruning
From the Imelda Marcos School of Shopping
From the Absolutely Clueless School of Rose Culture
From the Climbing the Wall Syndrome
From the Jaundiced Rose Garden
From the Insecure Rose Gardener
From the "No Question Is Stupid" School of Higher Learning
From the "All That Glitters" School of Disease Control
From the Runny Nose Department
From the Freezer Section
Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Kill a Rose
Plant Them in the Shade
Plant Them with Lots of Grass around the Base to Compete for Nutrients
Plant Them Where They Get a Dose of Lawn Spray
Never Water Them during a Dry Spell
Never Treat for Black Spot
Do Not Protect Tender Hybrid Teas during the Winter
Don't Take Climbing Hybrid Teas off the Trellis for the Winter
Prune Heavily and Do Not Feed At All
Spray with Heavier Doses of Sprays Than Recommended
Ask Your Neighbours to Water Your Plants for You
Plant Roses in the Shade
Chapter 27: Ten Tips for Cutting Roses
Following a Flipped-Out Florist
The Best Roses for Cutting
Chapter 28: Ten Roses and Rose Gardens That Made History
The Rose the Romans Loved
Cleopatra's Secret Weapon
Fighting over Roses in England
...and the Rose to Commemorate the War's End
The World's Biggest Rose Plant
Build It and They Will Come
The Hangover Rose?
Roses on the Gridiron
The Canadian Heritage Rose Garden
Provincial Roses
Part VI: Appendixes
Appendix A: Rose Societies and Newsletters
Canadian Rose Society
Local Rose Societies across Canada
Don't Forget Our Friends in the U.S.A.
Newsletters
Appendix B: Where to Find Roses, Information, and More in Canada
Where to Find Roses
Where to Start Looking for Information
Soil Testing
Getting the Bugs Out
Online Articles
Newsgroups
Tools, Books, and Whatnot to Perfect Your Rose Garden
Index
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