Roses

Growing Roses in Florida

Sydney Park Brown

Raising roses requires reasoning and resilience

Ralph Mitchell

With all types of flowering plants available at local garden centers, rose plants are a natural favorite. If well cared for, roses in our area can bloom all year long.  Most roses are not necessarily care-free, but with some prudent selection and sensible maintenance and grooming, growing a rose plant will provide abundant cut flowers […]

Old Tea Roses Worthy of Consideration for Florida Panhandle Landscapes

Matthew Orwat

Due to several unique challenges home gardeners and nursery owners are often baffled when trying to incorporate roses into landscapes. Consequently, they ignore roses altogether or limit themselves to cultivars in the knockout or drift series. While knockout roses and drift roses are commonly planted throughout the lower south, and deservedly so, many other roses […]

Gardening Tip: Roses

Eva Maria Pabon

I heard about a dangerous rose disease. How would I know if my roses have gotten it? The worst rose disease is called Rose Rosette Disease, which is a virus that is spread by the eriophyid mite. Though we have plenty of those unusual 4- legged mites here, the disease doesn’t appear to have reached […]