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Best Rose Guide: A Comprehensive Selection

by Roger Phillips, Martyn Rix
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Overview

Fresh ideas for selecting and growing the latest roses.

Gardeners are always searching for new roses and better ways to grow them. Best Rose Guide is an up-to-date reference with a wealth of new ideas for selecting and planting the ideal roses.

This authoritative guide covers 850 roses and bridges the divide between scientific texts and everyday horticultural books. The book explains how to identify and understand every type of rose.

Best Rose Guide features:

  • Detailed introductions to twenty-four categories of rose including Old Roses, Climbers, Shrubs and Modern Roses
  • Expert advice on selecting and growing
  • Planting ideas, companion plants and care
  • Cross-references, hardiness zones.

Vivid photographs show every rose in exquisite detail. The authoritative text also explains how roses have been cultivated from ancient Roman times to today with fascinating information and the most up-to-date DNA studies.

Featuring the newest rose varieties and the latest techniques and ideas for selecting and growing them, Best Rose Guide is a definitive reference on roses.

Synopsis

Over 850 roses are described and illustrated. Entries are arranged by group with information on the original wild species and the history of the cultivated roses. Further sections include cultivation and companion planting.

About the Author, Roger Phillips

Roger Phillips was trained as a painter at Chelsea School of Art, and pioneered the use of color photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects. Together with Martyn Rix, he has co-authored twenty-five books including Annuals and Biennials and Perennials, which have sold millions of copies around the world.

Martyn Rix is a botanist, plant collector and gardener. He worked as botanist at the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden at Wisley before becoming an independent botanical advisor and writer. Rix was awarded the Gold Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for his services to horticulture.

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Editorials

HortIdeas

The authors are to be commended for providing a splendid entryway to a vast realm!

Seattle Times - Valerie Easton

Every page... is drenched in the sensuality of this quintessential summer flower (minus the perfume), with gorgeous color photos.

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Their enthusiasm for the subject shows in the chatty yet informative text... user-friendly.

Garden Compass

Expert information and stunning photography to provide rose growers with the ultimate guide for understanding, choosing and eventually growing great roses.

Newsletter of National Garden Clubs

Any flower lover would accumulate knowledge and new respect for this favorite of all flowers... The rose photography is outstanding.

Chicago Sun-Times

So beautiful and so full of information... 1,300 stunning color photos... the best plants for color, scent, health and vigor.

London Free Press

Beautiful and definitive... this is a showcase worth having.

Globe and Mail

Handsome gardening and scientific compendium... The section on the wonderfully scented modern romantica roses is a must-read for garenistas with a prejudice against the skinny, no-scent, hybrid tea roses. Read on and dream of spring.

Phoenix Home and Garden

A thorough guide for rose selection and growing success.

Horticulture

Erudite and exquisitely beautiful volume... These portraits make fascinating reading, for the authors have dug deep to determine the origins of their chosen roses.

Hartford Courant

The sort of honest information that gardeners crave.

Booklist

The book, with more than 1000 color photographs, will appeal to any gardeners interested in growing these popular flowers.

Rocky Mountain News

Hundreds of sparkling color photos... page after page of colorful enjoyment and entertainment.

Canadian Gardening

Gloriously detailed book... vivid color photographs and fascinating anecdotal detail. The book's structure, like a good trellis, organizes the sprawling story of the history of the rose beginning with the parent wild rose and the complex stories of how, when and where the cultivated varieties came into being.

Chicago Tribune

Excellent information on the origins and natural history of the roses as well as their culture, and lavish photographs.

Choice

The 850 varieties included in this book represent only a fraction of the roses that have been introduced (and sometimes lost) to cultivation, but the illustrations of these varieties are remarkable... Recommended.

E-Streams

Every page has photographs so clear that you can almost sense the scent of roses.

I Can Garden.com

Gardeners are always searching for new roses and better ways to grow them. Best Rose Guide is an up-to-date reference with a wealth of new ideas for selecting and planting the ideal roses. This authoritative guide covers 850 roses and bridges the divide between scientific texts and everyday horticultural books. The book explains how to identify and understand every type of rose... Vivid photographs show every rose in exquisite detail. The authoritative text also explains how roses have been cultivated from ancient Roman times to today with fascinating information and the most up-to-date DNA studies. Featuring the newest rose varieties and the latest techniques and ideas for selecting and growing them, Best Rose Guide is a definitive reference on roses.

Book Details

Published
October 1, 2004
Publisher
Firefly Books, Limited
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781552978443

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