OLD ROSES - Gardening with Old Roses - an NZ guid

This was my bible :) Hardback PROTECTIVE binding!

Absolutely awesome book with beautiful photographs and plant lists that offer inspiration for companion planting, and information is given on buying, planting, pruning, propagation, pests and diseases.

A wonderful book for lovers of old roses. This book shows how valuable old roses can be in garden planning and planting schemes. A brief history and classification is followed by detailed coverage of their uses in a range of situations, and for various purposes. They feature in gardens of all sizes, in all shapes and sizes,shady woodland areas, climbing roses: on trees or pillars, arches and pergolas, as decoration for hedges, as ground cover and in containers, for disguising old sheds and bare walls, for hips or perfume, and for picking and arranging. Advice is also offered on how to succeed with old roses in poor soils or on difficult sites. A calendar for northern and southern hemispheres reminds gardeners when to perform the necessary tasks and explains how to plan for along flowering season.


In great condition bar very slight foxing to outside of pages when book closed. My name to inside cover.

187 pages
* Publisher: Godwit Press

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