Roses are known for their beautiful flowers, but getting them to look their best can be a struggle if they are not growing in the right soil. Fiona Nevile, a gardener and the founder of Cottage ...

The rose is the most deeply ingrained flower in human history and human culture. It has been immortalized and integrated into music, festivals, poetry and even wars. It has been used as a symbol of ...

Roses are touted as some of the best garden flowers due to their spectacular colourful blossoms, yet they thrive only when treated with the appropriate fertiliser. The prime time for fertilising roses ...

It turns out there is a very easy way to help roses "thrive" in the garden as their flowers will grow stronger and last longer when fed one kitchen scrap you may be throwing away. Nothing is more ...

Once upon a time, perfume was a luxury only kings and queens could afford. The technology of fragrance originally involved crushing up flowers, until the French perfected the technique of extracting ...

Mark Dwelly, the chief gardener at Audley Stanbridge Earls retirement village, claims that with consistent attention to removing wilted blossoms—a practice known as deadheading—rose bushes can ...

Peter McNeil received funding on Luxury from The Leverhulme Trust. The opening of this essay has been workshopped with Prof Giorgio Riello. Before the creation of international systems of cultivation ...

It comes from the Rosa damascena flower, commonly known as the Damask rose, and is created by distilling rose petals with steam. While it’s become more popular in recent years, rose water has actually ...

The majority of roses Americans give one another on Valentine’s Day, roughly 200 million in all, grow here, the savanna outside Bogota, summoned from the soil by 12 hours of natural sunlight, the ...