Both beauty and beast, the 'Mermaid' rose produces creamy-yellow, fragrant blooms on wickedly thorny long canes that can snatch you off your riding mower. "She's a mean rose," said Mike Shoup, an ...

“It used to be such a beautiful place,” Peggy Martin recalls of her home before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast 20 years ago. After two weeks underwater, her 12-acre property in Phoenix, ...

Our previous column included notes on pruning and propagating roses, and beginning a project to add roses, by first ...