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Landscaping with Roses (Black Decker Outdoor Home)
Landscaping with Roses - Black Decker Outdoor Home Author:The Editors of Creative Publishing international Get your hands on this masterpiece, endorsed by the American Rose Society. The world's most popular flower - the "Queen of Flowers" - is strikingly and memorably featured in this new, full-color, activity-filled book. It is one of the only rose books fully endorsed and recommended by the American Rose Society (ARS). The book features the ARS'... more » 20th Century Commemorative Rose Garden and their selection of the most popular, trouble-free roses of the past 100 years. Clear, colorful pictures and easy-to-understand text explain every reason to include roses in a home landscape. All popular rose classes are included: Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Grandiflora, Miniature, and Polyantha, as well as a host of fragrant, old garden, and heritage rose favorites. The book is practical, too. Every one of its building and planting projects include detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions depicting technique, necessary materials and required tools. Here's why this will be the best rose book you've ever seen: **Features a comprehensive encyclopedia of the 100 award-winning roses, USDA plant hardiness maps, important on-line web resources, and an easy-to-use index.
**Shows how to grow and maintain every All-American Rose Selection from 1990-2000, including the 10 most fragrant roses, popular miniatures, and cold-climate roses.
**Chapters feature: Beautiful Rose Gardens, Landscape Design, Installing Rose Gardens, Planting, and Rose Care.
**Features 26 step-by-step projects including arbors on which to train climbing roses and a formal rose garden made from masonry blocks.
**Contains more than 300 full-color photographs, with color pictures on every page.
**It is suitable for every garden - U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico or the world - and it contains complete metric conversions.« less