Now even the beginning gardener can grow lovely, fragrant roses in a wide range of different settings, soils, and climates with this concise, easy-to-follow guide. From a window box perfumed with hybrid tea roses to a trellis entwined with blossoms in a medley of colors, Easy Roses makes growing myriad varieties of these surprisingly vigorous and beautiful flowers a satisfying pleasure for both the novice and experienced gardener.
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Part of the publisher's Garden Style series, this book is indeed stylish, but it's also insubstantial. Brennan (Beautiful Bulbs) offers helpful encouragement to neophyte rose growers but oversimplifies when explaining the how-to's of rose culture. For siting a planting, she stresses the need for sun but says little about water and nothing about air circulation. Giving short shrift to climatic and ecological considerations, she offers airy advice: "check the hardiness of the rose before buying it"; if it shows signs of disease or infestation, treat it "as soon as possible with a commercially available spray or dust." Directions for inground plantings will be of little use to gardeners outside the Sun Belt. The book's strongest features are its step-by-step instructions for container plantings and such novelties as using roses to decorate a wedding cake. Captions to the lavish illustrations are sorely missing and the cognoscente who stumbles over this lightweight guide will howl at the prominently featured "classic" varieties 'Fran Druski' and 'Dr. Hewey'-known correctly as 'Frau Karl Druschki' and 'Dr. Huey.' Of interest mainly to non-horticulturalists.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Georgeanne Brennan is a James Beard Award-winning author of numerous cooking and garden books. She lives in Northern California and France.
Faith Echtermeyer is a Napa valley-based photogrpaher whose work has been featured in Chronicle Books' Little Herb Gardens.
Faith Echtermeyer is a Napa valley-based photogrpaher whose work has been featured in Chronicle Books' Little Herb Gardens.
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This review is from: Easy Roses: Secrets for Glorious Gardens- Indoors and Out (The Garden Style Book) (Paperback)
I didn't enjoy this book at all. There was hardly any illustration and the text was very poor.
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