Planting bare-root roses in autumn is the secret to beautiful blooms next year. An easy (and cheaper) alternative to potted roses, bare-root roses tend to establish more quickly in the garden, often ...

January and February are the brutal months in Bay Area gardens. The coldest months. The rainiest months. And one of these nights a killer frost will descend, and come spring, there will be great ...

Do you want to have a beautiful rose garden but hesitate at the springtime price tag for potted plants? If you live in a location where the ground doesn't stay frozen throughout the winter, there's a ...

Baldo Villegas grows close to 3,500 rose bushes in his Orangevale garden. Now is the time to get planting if you want to add roses to your garden collection. Paul Kitagaki Jr. [email protected] ...

Q: I recently ordered several bare-root roses from a website I've used before. The website indicated that the roses would be shipped at the "appropriate planting time for my region." (We live in the ...

As a gardening educator, one of my biggest challenges is to get people to do the right thing at the right time. Take planting roses, for instance. Nurseries generally get in their new roses in January ...