Roses declare themselves in gardens in BIG LETTERS. They can’t help it. It is in their DNA. There are very few plain vanilla roses. But don’t ever underestimate the power of vanilla. It can be a best ...

Edgar Norman Swane discovered the Burgundy Iceberg rose, a sport of the floribunda rose Brilliant Pink Iceberg, in New South Wales, Australia, in 1998. Burgundy Iceberg has all the performance ...

I don’t write about roses very much, but maybe I should do so more often. Due to our obsession with water conservation, roses have become outcasts in many of our gardens. And it’s a pity, really, ...

In “Alice in Wonderland” they painted the roses red. But according to Joy Bednorz of the Mountain View Rose Society another story tells “Once upon a time, there was a little rosebush that dreamed of ...

I received an email from the Platts who garden in La Habra. They have six hybrid tea tree roses, six floribunda roses and five Iceberg roses. Like all of Southern California, La Habra is under water ...