The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Roses
The Art and Science to grow with confidence
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This inspirational book from Kew Gardens' rose expert is the perfect guide to choosing and growing these majestic and versatile flowers. Instantly recognisable, fragrant and evocative, roses are the quintessential garden flowers. From low-growing ground-cover roses to long-stemmed Hybrid Tea roses, multi-petalled English roses, wild roses, small shrubs for containers, climbers and ramblers, in a range of forms, colours and scents, there is a rose for every garden situation. Combining botanical illustrations and practical advice, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Roses is the definitive introduction to growing seventy-eight beautiful roses, with full growing instructions and details on feeding, propagation and training. Twelve garden projects, from growing from seed to preserving rose petals, will bring the wonderful world of roses to life. This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Herbs, Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing Vegetables and Guide to Growing House Plants.
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PROJECT 1
Using roses in a mixed border or bed
- A Rosa Harlow Carr and Salvia nemorosa âAmethystâ bring a feeling of calm with their pastel petals.
- B The different shades and shapes of foliage on the delphinium and artemisia beautifully set ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction to Growing Roses
- Plants
- Project 1: Using Roses in a Mixed Border or Bed
- Project 2: Using Rose Hips
- Project 3: Roses for a Shady Spot
- Project 4: Propagating Roses in Water
- Project 5: Roses for an Exposed Site
- Project 6: Caring for Miniature Roses
- Project 7: Training as a Standard Form
- Project 8: Training a Rose Against a Wall
- Project 9: Growing Roses from Seed
- Project 10: Preserving Rose Petals
- Project 11: Growing Roses in a Container
- Project 12: Planting a Rose Hedge
- Troubleshooting
- What to do when
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright