Gardening is an activity that really helps us to relieve stress, but it is not free of challenges. I am embarrassed to confess that I have had two unfortunate mishaps with tree roses. More accurately, ...

I have learned so much from my rose garden through the years. I have learned about roses, the insects in my garden and the value of companion planting. Interestingly, rose gardens and life teach us ...

With the range of colors, shapes and sizes of roses available, it’s possible to have blooms from May through the fall frost. Here are tips and tricks for planting and growing potted roses. Laura ...

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 ...

Roses are meant to mingle with other plants in the garden. Their bold blooms pair beautifully with floral sprays, spikes, spheres, and spillers, while the leggy stems of climbing roses provide the ...

With their timeless beauty and grace, roses are often considered jewels of the garden. They also have the reputation for being persnickety plants that are high-maintenance and heavily dependent on ...

For many gardeners, roses get — and demand — more attention than most any other of their landscape plants. It is almost impossible to walk past a rose in full bloom without truly stopping to smell its ...

April has been an extraordinary month for gardeners. In recent columns, we have highlighted the return to in-person events by the Monterey Bay area’s leaders of the most popular groups of garden ...