Prune now for pretty rose bushes later. ... After each cut you make on the bush, dip your cutters in a sterilizing solution of 10 percent bleach or 10 percent Lysol.

How to plant roses. Since you’ll be planting grown rose bushes this time of year, you’ll plant them much like any other plant from the nursery.

Rose slugs, or green worms, don’t actually invade rose bushes. They live there. This is what makes them particularly difficult to detect before an invasion begins.

Popular ground cover rose options include Flower Carpet, which blooms from late spring until first frost and can produce up to 2,000 blooms on a single plant through the season. It grows 2 to 4 ...

The 2017 Rose Festival Queen Miranda Jackson Hart was crowned under the rose bush the night before -- just like her sister was two years earlier. "Everything needs to have a prettier side," Hart said.

This spring, I waited with bated breath to see if my beautiful Confederate roses would return. They did fine after the hard freezes, and they put out new growth at the soil line. My big one ...