How to Prune and Train Climbing Roses for Maximum Blooms

How to Prune and Train Climbing Roses for Maximum Blooms

Climbing roses are a stunning addition to any garden, offering height, vibrant blooms, and the opportunity to create breathtaking vertical displays. However, to get the best performance from climbing roses, they require thoughtful pruning and training techniques. Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm offers expert insights into how to manage these unique roses, focusing on…

Showy Rose Hips

Showy Rose Hips

I’ve always said that roses are the hardest working shrubs in the garden. From the earliest in spring, they provide ornamental interest to the garden, plus food and habitat for insects, birds and other wildlife. In the fall and winter, they demonstrate this work ethic with their ripening fruit – the rose hip. As I…

Proliferation!

Hey… this is kinda cool. It’s late March, so it’s not completely unexpected that ‘Sophie’s Perpetual’ is beginning to bud up. It’s usually my first rose to do so. I saw ‘Scarlet Moss’ racing to keep up this year, but then Sophie did this: Freaky. When I looked this one up, it seems it’s a…

Own Root or Grafted Roses

Own Root or Grafted Roses

It’s mad science, I tell ya… take the head of a cat, and put it on a greyhound. Good running companion, and already litter-trained! It sounds outrageous with animals, but it’s standard practice for most roses. Some species roses (Rosa multiflora and Rosa fortuniana) and some hybrids (‘Dr. Huey’) are notably vigorous, adaptable, winter hardy, or disease…