The Sustainable Rose Garden: A Reader in Rose Culture

by Pat Shanley (Editor), Peter Kukielski (Editor), Gene Waering (Editor), Marilyn Wellan (Foreword by)

Overview

“A fascinating and informative book for anyone who loves roses but wants to avoid spraying them with toxic chemicals” (The American Gardener).
 
A winner of the World Federation of Roses Literary Award, this work brings together experts from around the world to inform gardeners about developments in the new, irresistible—yet long overdue—trend toward creating environmentally friendly and enduring rose gardens, with “sustainability” as the key.
 
The queen of flowers, the rose—by presidential declaration, America’s National Floral Emblem—was initially left behind as “green consciousness” and the concept of sustainability took hold among the gardening public. But the rose is now making up for lost time. From the workshops of breeders—both in the United States. and abroad—a new generation of disease-resistant and low-maintenance rose varieties has emerged in the last decade to fill popular demand.
 
In this book, you will learn how to make your own sustainable rose garden. With thirty-eight lavishly illustrated articles and descriptions of the best new—as well as old—rose varieties designed for the sustainable rose garden, this is a must-have book for today’s new generation of avid but environmentally conscious gardeners.
 
“Finally, we have a book that addresses the notion of growing roses in an environmentally friendly manner . . . Nothing about sustainable rose culture has been presented as well as it has been in this book.” —Pacific Horticulture Society

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612000428
Publisher:	Casemate Publishers
Publication date:	01/10/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	598,344
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Pat Shanely lives and gardens in Locust Valley, NY. She is the American Rose Society NY District Director.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Marilyn Wellan
Introduction: Winston & Roses - Pat Shanley

Growing Tea Roses - Lynne Chapman, Noelene Drage, Di Durston, Jenny Jones, Hillary Merrifield, Billy West
A Close Look at Tea Roses -Lynne Chapman, Hillary Merrifield and Billy West
Hennessey Revisited: Sustainability, or The Accidental Environmentalist -James Delahanty
Rose Poems by Emily Dickinson -Historic Disease and Pest Control among Roses -Alice Flores
Rose Studies: Watercolors and Drawings Documenting the Genus Rosa -Maria Cecilia Freeman
Tea and Roses -Bill Grant
Earth-Kind® Rose Trials — Identifying the World’s Strongest, Most Beautiful Landscape Roses - Derald A. Harp, David Zlesak, Gaye Hammond, Steve George, and Wayne Mackay
Charmed by the “Thereness” of My Roses -Pat Henry
Beautiful Foliage, an Important Design Element - Janet Inada
Secret Garden Musk Climber - Jeri Jennings
Rodents versus Roses - Jeri Jennings
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden’s Dual Mission of Disease Resistance and Protecting ‘Eva’ - Peter E. Kukielski
The Roosevelt Island Rose Garden - Marjorie Marcallino
Health in David Austin’s English Roses - Michael Marriott
Mankind’s Second-Oldest Occupation (Cont’d.) - Clair G. Martin iii
The Birth of a Rose Garden - Karl Mckoy
Soil and Water and Roses - Dan Mills
Notes from the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden - Barbara Oliva
A Life Filled with Roses - William M. Patterson
The Pillar Rose - William Paul (1822–1905)
Report on Kordes® ADR Roses in the United States, 2010 - Gary Pellett
Sustainable Gardening Practices at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden - Jill Perry and Brian Debasitis
Memoirs of a Condo Rose Grower and Composter: Containers for Roses - Ellen Spector Platt
Talking about My Work with Roses - William J. Radler
The Days of … Chickens and Roses? - Ron Robertson
Garden Valley Ranch Compost Tea Program - Ron Robertson
An Accidental Sustainable Rose Garden - Stephen Scanniello
The Historical Significance of ‘Knock Out’ - Pat Shanley
Probiotic Rose Growing - John Starnes
Etiquette of the Rose Rustle - Allison Strong
It’s Only Water! - Billy Styles and Alan Talbert
Fire Ants versus Molasses - Betty Vickers
Sustainable Rose Growing and the Breeding of New Roses: The View from India - Viru Viraraghavan
Sustainability Genes: Breeding the Blackspot-Resistant Rose - Vance Whitaker
A Century (or Two) of Hybrid Musks - Jeff Wyckoff

Contributors

Editorial Reviews

"…a fascinating and informative book for anyone who loves roses but wants to avoid spraying them with toxic chemicals."

The American Gardener

"...a read that is very much recommended for the environmentally conscious rose lover."

Midwest Book Review

...a read that is very much recommended for the environmentally conscious rose lover.

Wisconsin Book Watch