Growing Roses in Cold Climates [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

~ (Author), John Whitman (Author)

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Growing Roses in Cold Climates is also destined to be a landmark in gardening publishing. Providing gardeners with tips and techniques drawn from 60 years of rose-growing experience, this fully illustrated guide to expertly growing roses in cold climate regions includes easily accessible information on more than 700 varieties of roses best suited to cooler climates.

Eleven major classes of roses are profiled in detail, complete with photographs and guidance on achieving ideal growing conditions. Step-by-step photos, complete with instructions, show exactly how to protect roses in winter. Growing Roses in Cold Climates also illustrates common organic and inorganic rose problems and their remedies. This is the book that rose growers in colder climates have been clamoring for, for years!

From the Publisher

The second book in the Cold Climate Gardener's Library, Growing Roses in Cold Cimates contains everything a gardener needs to know about growing healthy, hardy roses in cold climate conditions.

As many as 65 percent of America's gardeners live in colder regions, and based on extensive market research, gardeners in cold climates need, and are willing to pay for, specific information on growing roses under adverse conditions. This handsome, comprehensive, and fully-illustrated volume contains pertinent information for growing 700 varieties of roses; a five-star rating system based on extensive field testing that helps readers select the very best roses for cold climates; organic and inorganic remedies for common rose problems; tip and hints drawn from 60 years of hands-on growing experience; and detailed mail order source lists for each class of rose. From the basics, including step-by-step photos that show exactly how to winter-protect roses to advanced methods of propogation, this growing guide has it all. It is truly the cold climate rose gardener's bible.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809229412
• ISBN-13: 978-0809229413
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #761,789 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you live in the north you have to have this book!, May 25, 2000

By A Customer

The most valuable part of this book is the section that rates each rose. It gives a 1-5 star rating and a detailed description of the characteristics of that plant. It tells you why it deserved 5 stars or what is wrong with the rose so it didn't earn 5 stars! The other part of this book gives detailed and easy to understand tips on how to plant, feed, and protect your roses. The pictures are excellent and this is a hard book to put down. The author is obviously a lover of roses and not just a horticulturist!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful rose reference for northern gardeners, September 3, 2002

By	E. E. Filson (Cottage Grove, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Not only is this book the best reference, but the only one that gives novices as well as the advanced growers the information on growing healthy roses in the colder zones. It classifies the different types of roses that can be grown well, how to plant them, prune them, maintain them, select them and where to buy them. If non-hardy hybrid teas are your choice, it has excellent pictures giving the step-by-step method of tipping roses for winter protection. Roses hardy for the north are all listed - the old garden roses up to the newly hybridized Canadian hardy roses. Anyone wanting to grow roses in the north needs this excellent reference!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable Book for the Rose Grower, December 31, 2007

By	John J. Poillucci - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is well organized and has a wonderful rating system on cold weather roses. Evrything you need to know about roses in cold climates in one place.