Cut-Flower Roses [Hardcover]

Rayford Clayton Reddell (Author), Saxon Holt (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1999

Not every rose is right for your bouquet, and few understand this better than Ray Reddell. As owner of the Garden Valley Ranch, Reddell supplies cut roses to the finest florists in the country. In Cut-Flower Roses, he distills years of experience into one miniature treasure. Each rose profile—more than 40 of the best cut-flower varieties in all—is paired with a scrumptious photograph and includes tips on growing, maintaining, harvesting, and coaxing blooms into a long vase life. ?

Visit Ray Reddell's Garden Valley Ranch online—you can order beautiful roses or just browse the gardens.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Rayford Clayton Reddell is a nationally known rose expert and author of numerous first-rate rose books. Here he looks at 40 individual varieties of the best cut-flower roses, from the Abraham Darby rose to the White Delight, and includes information on how to harvest and cut the roses, the optimum times to do so, and how to best preserve their vase life. Stunning color photographs by Saxon Holt accompany the text, making this both an authoritative guide to cut-flower roses and a great gift for rose lovers anywhere. --Mark A. Hetts

About the Author

Rayford Clayton Reddell owns a nine-acre ranch in Petaluma, California, planted with over 8,000 rose bushes. An expert on roses, he is a garden columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle as well as a regular contributor to Horticulture magazine. Ray's previ

Saxon Holt is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in such garden magazines as Garden Design, Country Journal, Sunset, and Horticulture, as well as the book English Roses for American Gardens.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 1st edition (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811822702
• ISBN-13: 978-0811822701
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,123,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A handy little gem, February 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Cut-Flower Roses (Hardcover)

I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves his/her cutting garden, and starts dreaming of the possibilities the day after Christmas! This isn't an book you get lost in all day while your family goes hungry, it's a handy and informative book with a simple mission-- pointing you to the best varieties to cut and bring inside, but with beautiful photos of every entry that you will refer to again and again. I like the fact that this book is small; so is my yard, and there are more must-tries here than I can accomodate any time soon.