Roses for every garden

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Roses for every garden

May 8, 2005 06:55 PM EST | Gardening | Email to Friend

By Vincent Lawrance

Not so long ago, there were gardeners and then there were rose gardeners---dedicated, hardcore enthusiasts in pursuit of cosmetically perfect blooms on long, straight stems to enter into competitions at a local, regional, or national rose show. Times have changed, and today there are far more rose lovers who simply want to enjoy the queen of flowers in their gardens. Well, what's old is new again, and this return to how things once were (before the reign of the hybrid tea) is refreshing, opening up the world of roses to perennial gardeners, homeowners looking for attractive landscape options, and many other gardeners who had previously written off roses as too difficult, esoteric, or irrelevant.