Practical rose gardening: how to place, plant, and grow more than fifty easy-care varieties

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Foreword -- Roses -- prized flowers -- Types of roses -- Rose care -- Planting roses -- Fall in the rose bed -- Roses for the flowerbed -- Red roses -- White roses -- Yellow roses -- Apricot, copper yellow, and orange roses -- Pink roses -- Blue, purple, and violet roses -- Dream roses -- Pruning bedding roses -- Trivia for the rose enthusiast -- Roses as a groundcover -- Climbing roses -- Roses as shrubs -- Roses the easy way -- Roses and their beautiful companions -- Early spring with bulbs -- Roses with flowering perennials -- Roses with annual summer flowers -- Summer flowers you can sow yourself -- Roses in the fall -- Long-lasting companion plants -- Ideas for using roses -- Beautiful rose combinations -- Potted roses -- Roses in garden centers and in cultivation -- Quality -- Problem roses.;Provides instruction on selecting, growing, and caring for roses, and offers guidance on mixing roses with companion plants in flowerbeds with advice on color choice and rose varieties.