Taylor's Guide to Roses: How to Select and Grow 380 Roses, Including the New Hardy Ever-Blooming Varieties

by Peter Schneider, Gordon P. Dewolf (Editor)

No variety of plants can contribute as much beauty to a garden - and as much satisfaction to the gardener who knows how to grow them - as roses. In this guide you'll find

• photographs of almost 400 roses, with a quick reference to fragrance, winter hardiness, and disease resistance • every important class of rose - Species Roses, Old Garden Roses, Shrubs, Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Grandifloras, Miniatures, and Climbers • suggestions for carefree border and ground-cover roses • an encyclopedia entry for each plant, noting its uses and limitations • a pest and disease chart that describes the damage, its cause, and ecologically safe controls.

Whether you want to buy a single carefree bush or maintain a whole garden of perfect roses, this Taylor's Guide has everything you need to know to succeed the first time.

Genres: Gardening

474 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2002

About the author

Peter Schneider is a German novelist. His novel Lenz, published in 1973, had become a cult text for the Left, capturing the feelings of those disappointed by the failure of their utopian revolt. Since then, Peter Schneider has written novels, short stories and film scripts, that often deal with the fate of members of his generation. Other works deal with the situation of Berlin before and after German reunification. Schneider is also a major Essayist; having moved away from the radicalism of 1968, his work now appears predominantly in bourgeois publications.

Reviews

[sophie]

read this instead of doing math and will not remember any of it but i thoroughly enjoyed it thank u

[Karla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting more over all information about rose gardening and less of a reference book. The first 30 pages is dedicated to growing roses and the rest of the book lists 380 roses and a paragraph about each. I have 6 rose varieties and only 1 of the 6 was included, so I was a little disappointed.