Growing a Rose Garden Archives


Wild Roses

The PRAIRIE, CLIMBING, or MICHIGAN ROSE (R. setigera) lifts clusters of deep, bright pink flowers, that after a while fade almost white, above the thickets and rich prairie soil, from southern Ontario and Wisconsin to the Gulf, as far eastward as Florida. Its distinguishing characteristics are: Stout, widely separated prickles along the stem, that grows [...]

Growing Wild Roses

Just as many members of the lily tribe show a preference for the rule of three in the arrangements of their floral parts, so the wild roses cling to the quinary method of some primitive ancestor, a favorite one also with the buttercup and many of its kin, the Geraniums, Mallows, and various others.
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Rose Flowers and Plants for Rose Lovers

The Hardhack or Steeple Bush Rose, Spiraea tomentosa, usually has pink or magenta flowers. On rare occasions it can produce white flowers though. The flowers are very small and packed into dense pyramidal clusters. This rose plant grows two to three feet tall and tends to be shrub-like. The leaves are dark green on the [...]