Planting bare-root roses in autumn is the secret to beautiful blooms next year. An easy (and cheaper) alternative to potted roses, bare-root roses tend to establish more quickly in the garden, often ...

It is finally time to get the new gardening season started. Spring will be here before we know it and it’s good to be ahead of the game instead of playing catch-up for the rest of the year. While ...

Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden wish for 2025? Bare root fruit trees, ...

Perennials are the stalwarts of flower beds. These reliable plants perform year after year, filling gardens with colorful ...

Baldo Villegas grows close to 3,500 rose bushes in his Orangevale garden. Now is the time to get planting if you want to add roses to your garden collection. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] ...

As a gardening educator, one of my biggest challenges is to get people to do the right thing at the right time. Take planting roses, for instance. Nurseries generally get in their new roses in January ...

Bare root plants need to be planted in autumn, before or in between frosty days. Plants supplied as bare roots are hardy and ...

When it comes to planting roses, many people may dream about an elaborate backyard garden featuring many varieties of roses. But for some, the only type of garden they can realistically grow is in ...

Even though it’s the middle of winter, gardeners are busy planting and pruning roses and fruit trees. More often than not, the weather cooperates with sunshine, even though the days are short and ...

Q: I recently ordered several bare-root roses from a website I've used before. The website indicated that the roses would be shipped at the "appropriate planting time for my region." (We live in the ...

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