Right Rose Right Place Release

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Think roses are difficult to grow? Choose the right rose for the right place!     Whether you are an expert rose gardener or a beginner, everyone knows roses provide colorful, fragrant solutions to any gardening challenge. The single most important key to growing good roses is choosing the correct rose in the first place and, where to grow it, yet many books about roses are written from a Californian or English perspective. In the complete, valuable, well-indexed, and well-referenced Right Rose, Right Place, Peter Schneider describes more than 350 reliable roses that have proven to be outstanding performers in his Ohio garden are also perfectly useful for growing together with other plants. He hasn’t written about any rose that he hasn’t grown. Deciding where conditions may be very different from where you live, Right Rose, Right Place will help you recognize other great ideas in the gardens of your rose-growing neighbors and in nearby arboreta, horticultural parks, and botanical gardens. Roses that thrive in these places should also do well for you. And any roses you spy that appear unhappy despite regular care are ones that you can cross off your list. In Right Rose, Right Place, Schneider explains that rose growing is not a theoretical exercise. It entails making good choices about the soil, how much sun and rain your garden is exposed to, as well as the kinds of care you give and living plants. Along with recommendations of roses and how to use them effectively in the landscape, Right Rose, Right Place also offers answers to common questions and problems that everyone faces in growing roses. For example, often hybrid tea roses are grown in beds by themselves. Grown this way, they not only look good, but they are also and easier to care for. Climbers, miniatures, old garden roses, and the many kinds of shrub roses are ideal for growing among perennials, or displayed against a backdrop of evergreens. What other genus offers examples that can grow tidily in a pot on a deck, provide months of nonstop color in the perennial border, form an impenetrable hedge, or send a cascade of bloom down from the tree it has been trained to climb? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Schneider has edited the Combined Rose List, the annual directory of roses in commerce, since 1992. He is the author of Peter Schneider on Roses and editor of Taylor’s Guide to Roses. His articles and essays about roses have appeared in Horticulture, The Gardener, Garden Style, and other publications. With his wife, Susan, he grows 1,200 varieties of roses in rural Portage County, Ohio. Right Rose, Right Place Peter Schneider Storey Publishing; September 2009 Full-color; photographs throughout 272 pages, 9 ¼” x 10” $29.95 hardcover; ISBN 978-1-60342-438-7