Plant bare-root stock as soon as possible after the purchase. Before planting, check roots. If dry, soak in water for an hour or until moist. If necessary, prune before planting. Remove any damaged or ...

When it comes to gardening, we can count on Martha Stewart to always provide us with sound advice and fantastic tips, and this stands true for bare-root roses. The gardening expert recently shared a ...

with the big fireworks display at Waterfront Park. Are you ready? The roses aren't -- unless we get some amazing weather. I don't have high hopes for that. The forecast is, however, conducive to ...

Bare root roses are cheaper, and more disease resistant than containerized roses. Ciscoe shows us how to plant these beautiful alternatives, touching on the book Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest ...

It is finally time to get the new gardening season started. Spring will be here before we know it and it’s good to be ahead of the game instead of playing catch-up for the rest of the year. While ...

Thinking about taking a break from gardening during our shortest daylight hours? Think again. January is the ideal time to acquire new bare root deciduous trees, shrubs, roses, perennials and a host ...

For Mother’s Day I was sent a bare-root rose bush. I put it into water in a pail. A week later I planted it. Now the thorns are all black and the buds are getting dried up. I have been watering it ...

CORNISH FLAT, N.H. Roses have a certain mystique. Guys proposing marriage or trying to get out of the dog house traditionally buy roses. For me, long stem roses, which are expensive and generally ...

Now is the time to buy and plant bare-root roses. For years, my favorite roses have included David Austin types because they are more like the old-fashioned roses with lots of smell and few disease ...

There they sit. Your dreams of a glorious rose garden resting on a few thorny sticks – pruned, leafless, severed at the roots and packed in wet sand or worse, a cardboard box. Here we are at the ...

Have you been thinking of adding a fruit tree or two, some roses, or other productive plants to your garden? This is the perfect time for plants that are sold in “bare root” form. Most deciduous fruit ...