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Rosa

Sooner or later, everyone who has a garden thinks about growing roses. There are practical reasons--if a gardener needs them--for deciding to do just that. For one thing, roses outperform practically every other kind of garden plant in the number of flowers they produce, in the length of their blooming season, and in their normal life expectancy. But most gardeners become rose growers simply because they fall in love with the flowers. Roses have an irresistible combination of elegance and charm, thorny strength and satin-petaled delicacy, and their blooms come forth in a wonderful variety of colors, sizes, shapes, and fragrances. It is this, the sensuous appeal of roses, that has made them the world's best-known and most popular ornamental plant.
It's easy for a beginner to become overwhelmed by the knowledge that roses make unique demands on a gardener and decide that growing them may be beyond his ability. Roses do require a certain amount of pampering, but it's reassuring to remember that roses were growing long before there were human hands to tend to their needs; historical reconds indicate that wild roses were brought under cultivation in China about 5,000 years ago.

My Roses

Rose Links

Rose Nurseries

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