Sooner or later, everyone who has a garden thinks about growing roses. For one thing, roses outperform practically every other kind of garden plant in the number of flowers they produce, in the length of their blooming season and in their normal life expectancy. But most gardeners become rose growers simply because they fall in love with the flowers. Roses have an irresistible combination of elegance and charm, thorny strength and satin-petaled delicacy, and their blooms come forth in a wonderful variety of colors, sizes, shapes, and fragrances. It is this, the sensuous appeal of roses, that has made them the world's best-known and most popular ornamental plant. This book is a wonderful reference for growing roses, types of insects that devour them, and practical information that is useful to both the beginner and seasoned gardener., ISBN13: B0006W9SPK ISBN10: B0006W9SPK Material Type: hardcoverSooner or later, everyone who has a garden thinks about growing roses. For one thing, roses outperform practically every other kind of garden plant in the number of flowers they produce, in the length of their blooming season and in their normal life expectancy. But most gardeners become rose growers simply because they fall in love with the flowers. Roses have an irresistible combination of elegance and charm, thorny strength and satin-petaled delicacy, and their blooms come forth in a wonderful variety of colors, sizes, shapes, and fragrances. It is this, the sensuous appeal of roses, that has made them the world's best-known and most popular ornamental plant. This book is a wonderful reference for growing roses, types of insects that devour them, and practical information that is useful to both the beginner and seasoned gardener., ISBN13: B0006W9SPK ISBN10: B0006W9SPK Material Type: hardcover , ISBN13: B0006W9SPK ISBN10: B0006W9SPK Material Type: hardcover

Crockett, James Underwood