Tender Roses for Tough Climates [Hardcover]

Douglas Green (Author), Vince Babak (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 1997

Roses are the most popular plants in North American gardens, yet more cold-climate gardeners have trouble overwintering roses than any other flower. Through a decade of trial and error at his nursery in Canada, Douglas Green has developed a totally new method of growing roses, one that is guaranteed to revolutionize this popular hobby, making it a rewarding pleasure, not a frustrating chore. Where all previous rose guides have been based on methods developed by 18th- and 19th-cantury European gardeners, Green has discovered made-in-the-North techniques that allow almost any rose to grow without hilling or winter protection of any kind. They Blossom year after year, disease- and pest-free, without recourse to inorganic chemicals.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Green has developed a method of growing roses in cold climates, the area north of USDA Zone 6, a line that runs through southern New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and westward across the rest of the U.S. Proper planting is the key, Green explains, and he devotes a chapter to his deep-planting method. He discusses horticultural requirements, such as sun, soil, watering, fertilizing, and mulches. Other chapters cover the planting, care and feeding, and pruning of climbing roses, shrub roses, and roses grown in containers. A final chapter focuses on pests and diseases. This informative book has full-color photographs throughout. George Cohen

Review

"Green has developed a method of growing roses in cold climates, the area north of USDA Zone 6, a line that runs through southern New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and westward across the rest of the U.S. Proper planting is the key, Green explains, and he devotes a chapter to his deep-planting method. He discusses horticultural requirements, such as sun, soil, watering, fertilizing, and mulches. Other chapters cover the planting, care and feeding, and pruning of climbing roses, shrub roses, and roses grown in containers. A final chapter focuses on pests and diseases. This informative book has full-color photographs throughout." -- George Cohen Copyright© 1997, American Library Association. All rights reserved (Booklist, ALA )

"Grow roses almost anywhere with the help of a guide which uses new techniques which advocate growth without chemicals, winter protection or hilling. Green advocates a new 'deep planting method' for growers in harsh climates, supplementing his techniques for horticultural information and many other growing tips." (Midwest Book Review )

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (April 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576300315
• ISBN-13: 978-1576300312
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,599,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doug Green, award winning garden author, brings a down-to-earth style and easy gardening systems to his lifetime of organic garden achievements.

A semi-retired nurseryman, Doug has been answering beginner gardening questions with organic remedies for over 30 years and looks for ways to succeed that don't involve a lot of work or complexity. Refusing to take himself seriously, he believes in enjoying gardens, not working in them. If he's not writing about gardens, he's out enjoying them (or even out sailing) on his island home out in Lake Ontario. Occasionally, he will work in one but he's on a lifetime quest to have a garden that doesn't involve the concept of "real work".

Doug answers gardening questions on his 8 websites and writes because (as he so wryly puts it) it's "easier than working for a living".

What his friends will tell you is his books are works of love because he'd rather write and garden than do most other things.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Must for Rose Gardeners in Cold Climates, April 25, 2000

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This review is from: Tender Roses for Tough Climates (Paperback)

This is an excellent and very detailed guide for the rose gardener who wants her roses to survive from one northern winter to the next. This book will save you money by preventing the loss of roses to sub-zero temperatures.

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!!!, April 21, 2011

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This review is from: Tender Roses for Tough Climates (Hardcover)

Finally a book that covers and addresses the issue of growing roses in the NorthWest (Zone 4)!! It is a very easy read and the author writes in very plain text. I have over 20 different books on growing roses in the North & this is by far the best yet.