Rose-growing

We’ve had a truly bizarre year of rose growing here in Ventura, and I realized recently that I haven’t done a rose garden update in …

The garden has given me one last good fall flush. I hadn’t expected it, if I’m honest. You see, I haven’t been the best rose …

Some Mondays are so Mondayish, and sometimes the urge to garden is so powerful, that I don’t even stop to change out of my work …

The growing season is long here in Ventura, but it doesn’t last forever. It’s November now, and the dahlias are well and truly done blooming. …

A couple months ago, I had to transplant my favorite rose bush. I was reluctant to do it so late in the season, but the …

My first year growing roses, I noticed something strange: as we reached the end of the season, a white rose of mine had turned pink.

Sometimes, roses just don’t bloom. You change their fertilizer, give them more or less water, try other mysterious tricks you’ve read about, but nothing. When that happens, the only solution might be time.

I fell in love with growing roses last year and have spent a lot of time since then researching how to keep mine happy and healthy. Along the way, I’ve learned that many of my preconceived ideas about roses were wrong. In hopes of sparing you the same misconceptions that might keep you from growing your own rose garden, here are the top myths I believed about rose care and some truth to dispel them.