Integrating roses into your landscape
With proper planning of your design plus some routine maintenance, you can enjoy the mixed beauty of roses all the way into October in the Pacific Northwest.
Try Marsaskala . .
If you ever get to Malta visit Marsaskala for a 3 day stay to recover from your travels. It’s mellow, sunny, picturesque, & full of nice people & good food.
Villa Frere Gardens
This is not just a garden or an old building. It’s now a national monument: Villa Frere was recently designated as a Grade 1 heritage monument by Malta.
Valletta’s Mysterium Fidei Museum
Valletta’s Mysterium Fidei Monastery Museum has opened to the public after 400 years and is worth a visit for its garden & its history when you are in Malta.
Dude – Where You Been?
It’s been a few ugly years, but I’m back posting in Europe. This up-close & personal post is from Malta, one of my favorites.
10 Mistakes to Avoid With Your Roses
Watch out for these 10 mistakes to avoid with your roses. Planting, pruning, deadheading, & watering lead the list – but don’t forget about the deer.
Confronting Rose Rosette Disease
You know you’ve got it when your roses show twisted purplish growth that looks like a “witches broom”. Let’s learn how to easily recognize & remove it.
Caring for roses in the Fall
Here are the 8 Fall chores I focus on for my Puget Sound rose garden clients that help ensure a strong & healthy start in the Spring – whenever that occurs.
How to prepare for rose success with winter pruning
This timely post is on how to prepare your roses for success with winter pruning, compared to the summer deadheading. It includes 1 video & 8 resource links,
What are the Old Garden Roses?
Every class of rose defined after 1867 is modern, and any rose belonging to an older class is an old garden rose or OGR. Here are the many classes.
8 great tips for more rose blooms
Here are 8 tips to help you deadhead your roses more effectively each week, so each type of bush will respond with a vigorous rush of new buds & larger blooms.
A Glossary of Rose Terms
If rose lovers want to discuss roses it makes it much easier if we can agree to use the same terminology. The following is a glossary of basic botanical & common terms used to describe rose plant parts.
How to grow great container roses
You can also enjoy the beauty of roses by growing them in patio containers. All types of roses can be grown – provided you follow a few simple guidelines.
12 odd things that I can’t forget
I’m a believer that surprises are 1/3 of the fun of traveling if you stay flexible. All of these were chosen because I have digital pictures of them.
Boy, Are Our Readers in a Hurry
Here are some strategies to remedy slow page speed loading after studying the conflicting information about plugins, server setups, and hosting services.
We all still hail the great Julius Caesar
The Forum is a huge site that can wear you out – but slow down a bit and enjoy some of the many interesting details that involve the legendary Julius Caesar.
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