Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest: 90 Best Varieties for Successful Rose Gardening

by Nita-Jo Rountree

Many gardeners dream of filling their garden with lush, healthy roses—but growing roses can be tricky, especially under the Northwest’s moody skies. Luckily this definitive guide will help you build your garden sanctuary without the use of pesticides or chemicals.
 
Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest guides you through every step, including choosing rose varietals for your climate, landscape design, planting, harvesting, and basic care, as well as invaluable tips for nurturing a show-stopping rose garden. Growing no-spray roses has never been easier!
 
The book features information on popular rose types like David Austin, Hybrid Tea, Climbing, and Old Garden, and such stunning cultivars as Boscobel and Lady of Shalott. With full-color illustrations of the 90 best cultivars for the region, this visual guide is a go-to resource for everyone; whether you live east or west of the Cascades in Washington, Oregon, or British Columbia and are an urban gardener or have room to spread out, you’ll soon be surrounded by roses in full bloom.

Genres: Gardening, Reference, Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

Published January 17, 2017

Reviews

[Elena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grow Pacific Northwest Rose Performers

This book includes just enough background on roses and lots of photos and history on roses that bloom and grow in our region. This is an excellent reference for every rose grower from casual gardener to master gardener.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This has some useful information, but is not an encyclopedia of all things northwest roses. After reading it, I don't really know what's wrong with the roses that came on our new property. There is a handy rose ID guide, but I wouldn't assume mine are northwest-types and won't be able to try to ID them until the flowers come in. Two of my rose bushes definitively aren't included here.

Useful for newish gardeners thinking about adding roses to landscaping. If you're trying to identify your roses or their problems, look elsewhere.

[Kathy Fletcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite what I was looking for as my roses are all old ones that were at my house over 40 years ago when bought it. If I was buying new ones, this would be perfect. Lots of beautiful pictures of hardy roses for my area. I enjoyed looking through them.

[Katherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helpful and beautiful book. I read it on ebook initially and then bought it as a hardback even though we don’t have shelf space because I loved it so much and wanted to be able to flip through the recommended roses section more easily. The physical book is beautifully made and bound.

[Aldene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely Photos and the information on each Rose is broken up in a visual pleasing easy to read way.

[Kirsten Campbell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book although there were no roses listed for zone 8b where I live in the PNW :(. I was hoping to find roses specifically for my zone but alas the search for roses continues.

[Moi · Rating 4 out of 5]

So helpful. And very approachable for the novice gardener.

[Pepper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick, simple, and encouraging read on growing roses in the PNW. I love that the author gives advice for "the best" and then will appease the average reader by saying it had never been done in X years and roses were still growing well.