Roses are my favorite flowers, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love other plants, too. Roses have several big flushes during the spring, summer, and fall. While they are between flushes, (even though there are always some roses in bloom), if you spot in some summer bulbs and perennials, your flower beds will always be ...
Read More | Everything RosesHi, Marci Martin here, your PlantersPlace.com rose blogger. Today, we’ll talk about Japanese Beetles and their relatives, all the other scarab beetles. A Little History Japanese beetles were first discovered in the United States in 1916 in New Jersey. No one really knows how they got here, but in Japan they were never a major ...
Read More | Everything RosesI'm Marci Martin, rosarian and the Everything Roses blogger. This week's post tells you how to keep roses healthy and beautiful. June has been a whirlwind, as it is every year! Thousands of beautiful roses have bloomed in my gardens and I have had the pleasure of groups of people large and small to share their ...
Read More | Everything RosesHere in my neck of the woods, I have spent the past six weeks preparing my gardens for the growing season. Because of our one hard freeze during the winter, I found myself having to severely prune this spring. I wasn’t too worried about it as my roses are planted so deeply, but it certainly ...
Read More | Everything RosesWhen I go speak for groups interested in growing roses, I always bring up the possibility of a nightmare winter. For us, I suppose, that would be blizzards and ice storms, or perhaps a combination of the two. However, in the rose garden, the opposite is true! An Awful Past Winter This winter we just ...
Read More | Everything RosesAfter a very busy winter growing roses at Suffield High School’s greenhouse for the Connecticut Flower and Garden Show, which officially wrapped up on February 26, we’ve been happily awaiting the beginning of March. Where we live in north-central Connecticut, the bulk of our winter was much warmer than usual. We saw a little bit ...
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