I just wrote an entire post about protecting your roses that are planted in the ground. I realized I neglected to address one of the most challenging parts of winter protection, roses in containers.
2024
Winter Protecting Your Roses
The most common question I get this time of year is about what you should do to protect your roses in the winter. Over the years, I’ve heard of some creative solutions and it seems like rose lovers will do just about anything to help their roses through the cold months and give them a […]
Fragrant Roses Podcast
Listen in on Teresa Byington and Matt Douglas discussing all things great about fragrant roses!
Rose Stories – Beulah Blakely
Denver’s Riverside Cemetery is the final resting place of many of Denver’s pioneering residents. Some of Colorado’s most notable early citizens including Clara Brown, Augusta Tabor, Miguel Otero, Barney and Julia Ford, Captain Silas Soule and Governor John Evans are laid to rest here. Amongst the many well know names to Coloradans is final resting […]
Rose Stories – Lemon Zen
Lemon Zen is a cheerful Noisette rose initially developed by John Starnes around 1990. John lived in Denver and was a frequent visitor to the nursery all the way back to the 1980’s. I first met him as teenager and let’s just say John had a personality you would never forget. His eccentricity served him […]
Rose Stories – Linda Campbell
Okay, this seems like an obvious choice. Of course I like the rose named after my mother, but my affinity for the variety runs a little deeper than maternal allegiance. I first came to know this rose in the late 1980’s. It cropped up in our family garden in Denver as yet another rose that […]