Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Roses for Canadians for Dummies®
    Unavailable
    Roses for Canadians for Dummies®
    Unavailable
    Roses for Canadians for Dummies®
    Ebook382 pages6 hours

    Roses for Canadians for Dummies®

    By Douglas Green

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Features a full-colour photo insert and hardiness zone map. 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. Discover how to:Choose the best rose varieties for your areaProtect against rose pests and diseasesPlant your roses to encourage hardinessWater, mulch, fertilize, and pruneWinterize your rosesLocate Canadian rose resourcesIntroductionAbout This Book Conventions Used in This Book Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Part I: Roses 101 Part II: Using Roses in Your Garden Part III: All the Roses You Need to Know Colour Pictures Part IV: Growing Healthy Roses Part V: The Part of Tens Part VI: Appendixes Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here 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? Hybrid tea roses Floribunda roses So When Do They Bloom, Anyway? Roses That Bloom Once a Season 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 Getting to know your hardiness zone Making some Canadian distinctions A New Meaning for Red Hot Sultry Summers and Sweaty Roses Tiny Climates Not Just for Tiny Roses Roses for All Roses for cold-winter climates Roses for areas with cool summersPart 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 Using roses for hedges Using roses for edgings Using roses for ground covers Using roses for barriers Using roses on fences, arbours, and walls Chapter 6: Roses and Their Partners in the Garden The Basics of Combining Plants Plants That Cover the Bases Perennials Annuals Roses and Herbs Going for Leaves Silver-dusted leaves Grassy and spiky leaves White for When the Night Is Bright Chapter 7: Growing Roses in ContainersPutting the Right Roses in the Right Pot Containing the Roots Bigger is (usually) better Accessories for your pots Potting Soil Simplified Planting Properly in Pots Caring for Roses Growing in ContainersPart 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 Red hybrid teas Pink hybrid teas Orange hybrid teas Yellow hybrid teas White hybrid teas Lavender hybrid teas Multicoloured hybrid teas Chapter 9: Grandifloras Treat Them Like Hybrid Teas: Looking After Grandifloras Grandifloras by Colour Red grandifloras Pink grandifloras Orange grandifloras Yellow grandifloras White grandifloras Lavender grandifloras Multicoloured grandifloras 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 Red roses Pink roses Orange roses Yellow roses White roses Lavender roses Multicoloured roses Chapter 11: Miniature Roses Looking at Mini Form Tracing Their Tiny Origins Diminutive but not frail: Protecting and pruning Small but not less colourful: Landscaping with miniatures Buying Quality Miniature Roses Giving You the Lowdown on Miniature Varieties Red miniatures Pink mini
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    ISBN9780470676714
    Unavailable
    Roses for Canadians for Dummies®
    Author

    Douglas Green

    Douglas Green is the author of the 2020 novel A Dog of Many Names. He runs the advice website AskShirelle.com, inspired by the first edition of The Teachings of Shirelle. He directed the 2000 film The Hiding Place before authoring books, and now spends his days working with teens and children as a psychotherapist in LA.

    Read more from Douglas Green

    Related to Roses for Canadians for Dummies®

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      War Against Wildings

      May 8, 2020

      War Against Wildings
      5 min read

    • Article

      ‘My Giant Canvas’

      Aug 12, 2022

      ‘My Giant Canvas’
      3 min read

    • Article

      Growing For Gold

      Mar 1, 2024

      Growing For Gold
      5 min read

    • Article

      ‘James Roof’ Garrya

      Jun 22, 2023

      ‘James Roof’ Garrya
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Bloomin’ Beach

      Jan 6, 2021

      A Bloomin’ Beach
      1 min read

    • Article

      Floral Fireworks

      Jan 17, 2024

      Floral Fireworks
      5 min read

    • Article

      Work Of The Imagination

      Aug 17, 2021

      Work Of The Imagination
      3 min read

    • Article

      A gardener’s MISCELLANY

      Oct 11, 2022

      Exotic-looking plants from the asparagus family CORDYLINES are popular garden plants in the UK. Arguably, 15-20 years ago they were even more popular, because at that time the trend for exotic gardens was at its highest – and these are truly exotic-l

      4 min read

    • Article

      Love In A Dry Climate

      Feb 6, 2020

      Love In A Dry Climate
      1 min read

    • Article

      Coastal And Seaside Gardening

      Aug 17, 2021

      IF your garden is within 10 miles of the sea, then you are a coastal gardener. Strong winds, salty air and poor soil are just three of the problems you have to contend with. You may also need to address such matters as being blasted by sand, or inten

      5 min read

    • Article

      Garden Essentials

      Aug 7, 2018

      1 | GARDEN RENOVATION Bobbie Schwartz sets you up with all the resources you need to create a landscape that reflects pride and personality. Learn your garden’s needs and define your goals; then get inspired with design solutions, theme ideas and hel

      1 min read

    • Article

      Cypress

      Mar 15, 2021

      What does cypress have in common with bourbon, barbeque, and the blues? They’re all products with southern roots. Cypress (sometimes called bald cypress) lumber is well known throughout the southern U.S. where the trees are prolific, but less so the

      2 min read

    • Article

      Grow Your Own Red Cedar

      Feb 22, 2018

      Grow Your Own Red Cedar
      4 min read

    • Article

      Seed Spotlight

      Sep 9, 2021

      Seed Spotlight
      1 min read

    • Article

      Eucalyptus

      Dec 31, 2019

      Eucalyptus
      2 min read

    • Article

      Acers Are Ace!

      Apr 28, 2020

      This week it’s: IN gardening terms, the maples (forms of acer) are best known for their autumn foliage tints of gold, orange, ochre, copper, red and russet. But this is a diverse genus, from small plants for patio pots to enormous trees. It holds man

      4 min read

    • Article

      On The Wild Side

      Jan 1, 2022

      On The Wild Side
      2 min read

    • Article

      Plants Connected With Islands

      Jan 5, 2021

      This week it’s: ISLANDS may be a bit of a surprise subject to cover in a gardening magazine, but there are many links between plants, gardening and, yes, islands. Some of our finest gardens are on islands (one of my favourite gardens of all time is o

      5 min read

    • Article

      South Coast beauty

      Aug 12, 2022

      South Coast beauty
      4 min read

    • Article

      Spanish Cedar

      Dec 14, 2021

      Spanish Cedar
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Trees Can Talk

      Feb 21, 2023

      The Trees Can Talk
      4 min read

    • Article

      Healing Place

      May 17, 2020

      Healing Place
      2 min read

    • Article

      Q & A

      Aug 2, 2022

      Q I moved to a new home in the summer and found a bunch of these odd roots as I was digging a new garden bed. Any idea what they might be? Eva Rossi, IL A You’ve discovered a bed of Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica). This native spring epheme

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Leaves Are On-line!

      Oct 5, 2021

      The Leaves Are On-line!
      1 min read

    • Article

      Q & A

      Feb 7, 2024

      Q I overwintered a Spanish lavender topiary. It’s showing new growth, but looks ragged. How do I prune it? Melissa Russell, NJ A As growth starts, remove dead sections of your Spanish lavender (Lavandula stoechas) plant first. Then snip off any gr

      2 min read

    • Article

      Pigeon Post

      May 20, 2021

      Pigeon Post
      3 min read

    • Article

      On The Wild Side

      May 1, 2022

      On The Wild Side
      2 min read

    • Article

      Super Sedges

      Feb 24, 2022

      No doubt about it, people love lawns. They love the neat look of turfgrass, the seas of green. However, lawns are a problem. A big problem. Lawns fragment valuable habitat, displace wildlife and pollinators, encourage the overuse of herbicides and pe

      3 min read

    • Article

      Chasing The Sun

      Mar 16, 2022

      Chasing The Sun
      6 min read

    Reviews for Roses for Canadians for Dummies®

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words