A thorough guide to the perfect rose garden includes a month-by-month schedule of the major tasks necessary to plant, grow, and maintain one; provides historical facts about roses, personal anecdotes, line drawings, and photographs; and lists rose types and sources. 20,000 first printing.
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One of the country's foremost authorities on roses, Scanniello is the often-quoted rosarian responsible for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's lovely Cranford rose garden. Imbued with a delightfully intimate tone, Scanniello's practical new guide seems the next best thing to sitting down with him for a cup of tea and chatting about the very best ways to deal with roses of all types--modern or antique. Addressing different methods for various areas of the country, Scanniello touches on topics ranging from ordering roses by mail order to pruning, planting, fertilizing, and nonchemical ways to keep rosebushes healthy. Always an enthusiastic instructor, Scanniello offers accessible counsel for beginning gardeners and fascinating tips for gardeners who might already possess expertise but could readily use advice from an expert. Alice Joyce
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Stephen Scanniello, rosarian of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's celebrated Cranford Rose Garden, distills his formidable practical knowledge into A Year of Roses, charting month to month the tasks necessary for keeping roses healthy and enhancing their beauty. Scanniello stresses the need for a more hands-on approach to the art of growing beautiful roses. With intelligent simplicity and inspiriting charm, A Year of Roses teaches everything: how to choose, order, store, plant, protect, and maintain your roses. Also included here are practical rose culture information for all horticultural zones, significant historical facts, personal anecdotes, detailed black-and-white line drawings - and, throughout, Scanniello's unique expertise.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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By Doug (Nevada City, Ca.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Year of Roses (Hardcover)
A year of Roses is an excellent reference book for rose gardeners of all varieties. The author conveniently breaks the book down in chapters by month. This allows one to quickly reference what should be done at a certain time of year. I read this book one chapter a month over the course of the year and my roses were the beneficiary. It is certain that I will refer back to this book frequently for years to come. I give this book my highest recommendation.
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The best book on the culture of roses that is available.,
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Stephen Scanniello's love for the rose comes across in the way he cares for his roses. His book is neither a coffee table book or a "dry" instructional tome. This is a book you take out in the garden with you. You and Stephen pratice together what is going to make your rose garden look like you always wanted it to be.Jack M. Bilson Jr. Consulting Rosarian
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Invaluable Rose care book,
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Well written guide to caring for roses - how to prune; graft; fertilize; steal cuttings. Written by the Brooklyn Botanical garden director. He has published some excellent guides to roses (maybe other plants too, don't remember).
Worth having - I borrowed from library about 4 times before I bought my own well used copy.
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It was in January that I learned the truth about roses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Jersey, United States, Mother Nature, American Rose Society, Far East, Heritage Rose Foundation, Kansas City, New Hampshire, North American, Valentine's Day, Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest New!
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It was in January that I learned the truth about roses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Jersey, United States, Mother Nature, American Rose Society, Far East, Heritage Rose Foundation, Kansas City, New Hampshire, North American, Valentine's Day, Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest New!
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- Climbing Roses by Stephen Scanniello on page 124
- The Organic Rose Garden by Liz Druitt on page 49
- Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, Second Edition (Comstock Book) by Wayne Sinclair on page 124
- Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs (Comstock Book) by Warren T. Johnson on page 96
- Combined Rose List by Beverly Dobson on page 14
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