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Taylor's Guide to Roses: How to Select abd Grow 380 Roses, Including the New Hardy Ever-Blooming Varieties - Flexible Binding (Taylor's Gardening Guides) |  | Author: Nancy J. Ondra
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Category: Book
List Price: $23.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 205341
Media: Paperback
Pages: 474
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 0618068880
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.933734
UPC: 046442068888
EAN: 9780618068883
ASIN: 0618068880
Publication Date: February 5, 2002
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Product Description
No variety of plants can contribute as much beauty to a garden - and as much satisfaction to the gardener who knows how to grow them - as roses. In this guide you'll find
• photographs of almost 400 roses, with a quick reference to fragrance, winter hardiness, and disease resistance
• every important class of rose - Species Roses, Old Garden Roses, Shrubs, Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Grandifloras, Miniatures, and Climbers
• suggestions for carefree border and ground-cover roses
• an encyclopedia entry for each plant, noting its uses and limitations
• a pest and disease chart that describes the damage, its cause, and ecologically safe controls.
Whether you want to buy a single carefree bush or maintain a whole garden of perfect roses, this Taylor's Guide has everything you need to know to succeed the first time.
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 Good selection guide for finding roses October 3, 2003
W. Oliver (Alabama)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Taylor's Guides are popular tools for plant selection and this revised edition is no exception. The size of the new edition is a little larger than the old one but it is still a comfortable size for reading in bed or taking with you to the nursery. 380 roses are covered here, from all rose classes. 200+ pages are glossy and contain a color photograph of each rose. The gallery is followed by an "encyclopedia of roses" which gives basic information about growing the rose and how best to use it in the garden. A brief introduction covers the basics of buying roses, growing and caring for them. A chart is also included which explains pest and diseases and offers ecologically safe controls. This is a good guide but if you are seeking a book that is more comprehensive and includes a larger selection of roses, you might want to check out "Botanica's Roses" by William Grant. This book includes over 2000 roses and is priced similarly. Also, the just released "American Rose Society Encyclopedia of Roses" is also outstanding but much higher in price.
 A fine book indeed! March 7, 2003
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book has lovely photographs, good descriptions of the plant, and suggestions on how to use particular rose varieties in your landscape. It is written with enthusiasm and is a pleasure to read.
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