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"He who would have beautiful Roses in his garden must have beautiful Roses in his heart."
--- S. Reynolds Hole, 1905

• what's new
• roses I grow with links to photos and descriptions.
• roses and shade
• my garden journal
• complete list of all rose photos on site with links
• thumbnail images of rose photos taken in my garden
• roses I have available to trade
• rose books online: first book is Graham Stuart Thomas paintings and comments
• culture and propagation of roses
• reference books, catalogs, and encyclopedias used for description and discussion
• random Thoughts  -  Old-fashioned gardens    Is a blue rose possible?     Rose reality-check.     Aphids and 'Lions'
• essay about the discovery of 'Veilchenblau' in a neighbor's yard by Landford Wilson
• vase of roses cut on 99 Aug 1 after three weeks of 95+ degree weather
• a few quality site links about roses that I visit often and recommend
• Roses of the World in Color Photos - other gardens

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 Roses I grow

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alba  bourbon  buck  centifolia  china  climbers  damask  english  floribunda  gallica  ground-cover  hyb.husk  hyb.perpetual  hyb.tea  moss  musk  noisette  polyantha  portland  ramblers  rugosa  shrub  species  teas  other  found/unknown  no longer grow

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The following are the roses I grow. The year of introduction of the rose follows the name. Many are bought locally or are from trades, a good number are mail order, and a few are found. Most are on their own roots. All color photographs, unless otherwise noted, were taken in my garden with an Olympus D-320L digital camera, and starting in May 2000 were taken with an Olympus C2020Z. As of December 2001 I am using an Olympus E20-N. Descriptions and cultural details about the various classes (and individual roses) have been included using older, not-readily-available books and catalogs. It is fascinating to read the words of rose enthusiasts of former days, and then to step outside and examine the same cultivar or species growing in your own garden. The scent and the form before you the same as admired decades and even centuries ago.

"What is the formula? Well, there's no magic in it! Just a little patch of ground; just a little daily loving care; just a little cost; and the result to you and your neighbors will be the glory of the Queen of Flowers."
-- Robert Pyle, Secretary of the American Rose Society, 1925

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A few select links

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Help Me Find Roses - the first place I go for detailed information about ANY particular rose.

Garden Web's Rose Propagation and Exchange Forum - probably my most visited site, always plenty of discussion about propagation and breeding of roses by amateurs.  A good place to set-up trades of non-patented roses, too.

Old Garden Roses and Beyond by Paul Barden. IMHO, this is surely one of the best personal websites about roses on the net. Each month Paul somehow manages to have an excellent front page article by growers of OGRs and breeders of roses. His photos are superb

Rosa Rosam - I have to agree with the description embedded in this website: the photos are remarkable. There also is contained a number of very interesting articles and stories about roses, such as "Roses in a White Garden" by Nancy Steen. The description: "Roses in New Zealand - High Resolution photography features glorious flowers from an eco climate, in Auckland, New Zealand, where roses bloom alongside camelias.  Fantastic images presented with an artistic view. High Resolution photography."

OrganicRoseGardening.com - A very good and thorough summary that explains organic techniques for growing roses. As time marches on, I tend to garden more organically.

American Rose Society Old Garden Rose page - Nineteen articles about OGR by those who grow them and know them well.

Roger's Roses - Over 5,800 photos of roses, most with detailed descriptions. Roger Phillips, Martyn Rix , and Bill Grant are the authors of this site. Used to be by subscription only. Not any more.

Parsons On the Rose- All 218 pages of the 1883 "Treatise on the propagation, culture, and history of the rose." by Samual B. Parsons.

Brent C. Dickerson - Author of two of the most detailed and complete books about OGRs: The Old Rose Advisor and The Old Rose Adventurer. His page about Old Rose history and synopsis is the best!

Roses at Botany.com - All text about roses: descriptions of rose classes, creating a rose garden, potting, tree roses, winter care, pruning, greenhouse roses, exhibition roses, propagating, lists of varieties.

Rose Hybridizers Association Forum - If you want to learn about hybridizing roses, with much detailed discussion about species roses, go here. I do.

Karl King's Rose Breeding Articles - You will not find a larger collection of articles about breeding of roses anywhere else. These are classic articles from rose breeders. Many are from the ARS Annuals.

Vintage Gardens - This nursery in Sebastapol, California has the most extensive list of roses available of any I know of. Great information on two thousand roses listed in their searchable online catalog

More rose links here

"Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers.  All other things, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance.  But this rose is extra.  Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life.  It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope for from the flowers."
 -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  (1859-1930)

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