Care Basics

January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December
 
Buying Roses • Planting Roses

The Full Scoop About Fertilizers • What Your Roses Really Need • What are they and what do they do? • So Many Choices!! • When and How to Do It? • And then there are Amendments • Too Little or Too Much • It’s Tea Time for Your Roses!

Water, Water, Precious Water • Roses in Drought Conditions • Irrigation and Drainage

Pruning 101 • Pruning Specific Types of Roses

Aphids • Birds • Cane Borers • Caterpillars • Cucumber Beetles • Deer • Flea Beetles • Fruittree Leafrollers • Gophers • Katydids • Leafcutting Bees • Leafminers • Rose Curculios • Rose Slugs • Scale • Spider Mites • Thrips • Weeds

Assassin Bugs • Dragonflies • Earthworms • Garden Spiders • Green Lacewings • Minute Pirate Bugs • Praying Mantids • Soldier Beetles • Syrphid Flies • Toads

The Big Three Rose Diseases • Anthracnose • Black Spot • Botrytis Blight • Crown Gall • Dieback • Downy Mildew • Powdery Mildew • Rose Mosaic Virus • Rust

Abiotic Problems • Chlorosis • Drought • Herbicide Damage • Phyllody • Rose Replant Disease • Spring Dwarf