Antique Roses for the South

by William C. Welch, Neil Sperry (Foreword by)

Overview

"Belinda's Dream", "Katy Road Pink" and "Georgetown Tea." The names alone evoke images of glorious cottage gardens and arching trellises laden with perfumed blossoms. Offering gardeners hardiness and ease of care, some roses have even lived for decades untended. All provide their admirers with years of pleasure and enticing fragrances. In this revised edition, rose expert Bill Welch updates the latest information and top sources for antique roses. The improved Antique Roses for the South is filled with gorgeous images and offers chapters on care and propagation, landscaping and arranging, and rose crafts. The comprehensive dictionary lists more than 100 of these magnificent flowers, complete with helpful descriptions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589791039
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/2004
Edition description:	Updated Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	9.03(w) x 9.15(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

William C. Welch serves as Extension Landscape Specialist in the Department of Horticulture Sciences at Texas A&M. For nearly thirty years, Bill has served on the board of Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., as Landscape Design Chairman. He is a past president and current board member of the Southern Garden History Society, and Member-at-large of the Garden Club of America. He is the author of Perennial Garden Color, and co-author of The Southern Heirloom Garden and The Bountiful Flower Garden. He resides in College Station, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

Some of the easiest roses to grow in Volusia and Flagler counties are "old-garden" roses. That's why William Welch's 1990 classic, Antique Roses for the South remains timeless for anybody interested in the subject.

Daytona Beach News-Journal

An antique rose is more than just an old rose. It's the Rambo of the flower world. To learn more, [Antique Roses for the South] is a helpful area resource.

The Dallas Morning News

If you've never smelled an antique rose and think you never will, here's a book that could change your mind...sure to provide welcome insight and ideas for anyone already enamored and just as sure to tempt and intrigue those who don't know them yet.

Sun Herald - Pam Firmin

Listed as a rose reference

Dallasnews.Com

This book will be helpful to rose lovers in the lower South and possibly in the milder parts of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It will also delight all garden dreamers with its color photographs or roses growing in many landscape settings, which demonstrate the great variety of the genus and the beauty of its many forms. I recommend this beautiful book for its information and its inspiration. Every gardener needs both. The volume itself will ornament the house until the first rose bud opens.

Fine Gardening - Harriet Jansma

Antique Roses for the South is a treasure made even more valuable considering the challenge. When you write a book about roses, something will be lost in the translation. It certainly won't smell or look as good as the real things. Given that handicap, Dr. Welch does a superb job of telling about the history, culture and preservation of old roses that have stood the test of time in the hot and humid South.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Mark Stith

Antique Roses for the South is wrought from experience. It is meant to alleviate the frustrations southerners feel when they try to figure out which old roses will grow well in the hotlands. A useful book.

Horticulture

An excellent choice for novice rose growers.

The News and Advance (Lynchburg) - Don Davis

...[a] fantastic new book.

The Houston Chronicle

This book contains a wealth of information for growers interested in cultivating antique roses.

Carolina Gardener

Antique Roses for the South is a top-notch work of interest both to rose collectors and those who simply wonder what that sweet-smelling rose was that grew by Grandma's porch.

Southern Living - Steve Bender

...an invaluable resource...a wealth of information...a comprehensive dictionary of more than 100 antique roses with detailed descriptions.

Silive.com - Dan Gill

An antique rose is more than just an old rose. It's the Rambo of the flower world. To learn more, [Antique Roses for the South] is a helpful area resource.

Dallas Morning News

...an invaluable resource...a wealth of information...a comprehensive dictionary of more than 100 antique roses with detailed descriptions.
— Dan Gill

Silive.com

Antique Roses for the South is a top-notch work of interest both to rose collectors and those who simply wonder what that sweet-smelling rose was that grew by Grandma's porch.
— Steve Bender

Southern Living

Listed as a rose reference

Dallasnews.com