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Choose the best rose
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Protect against rose pests
and diseases
Plant your roses to
encourage hardiness
Water, mulch, fertilize,
and prune
Winterize your roses
Locate Canadian rose
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“A valuable resource for
anyone interested in growing roses
in Canada.” — Donna Dawson, ICanGarden.com
Plant the rose garden you’ve always wanted! This book is your year-round
guide to raising healthy, beautiful roses. Featuring Canada-specific
information on hardy rose varieties, including the Explorer and Parkland
series, plus advice for winterizing your plants, this book is your ultimate
rose bible.
Douglas Green is an active gardener and has written several books,
including Tender Roses for Tough Climates. Canadian Gardening is
Canada’s most popular gardening magazine. Lance Walheim is the
author of over 40 gardening books. The National Gardening
Association is an organization of home gardeners in the U.S.
Green
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“Douglas Green has taken the mystery out of growing roses
successfully in our colder Canadian climate.” —Ed Lawrence, CBC Radio’s Ontario Today gardening expert
Roses
For Canadians
Roses For Canadians
Douglas Green
The Editors of Canadian Gardening
Lance Walheim
The Editors of The National Gardening Association
Douglas Green
The Editors of Canadian Gardening
Lance Walheim
The Editors of The National Gardening Association
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Roses
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FOR
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by Douglas Green
The Editors of Canadian Gardening
Lance Walheim
The Editors of The National
Gardening Association
Roses
For Canadians
FOR
DUMmIES
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Roses For Canadians For Dummies®
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About the Authors
Douglas Green is an Ontario writer and photographer, in addition to being
a very active gardener. As the proprietor of Simple Gifts Greenhouses, a
specialty greenhouse and nursery growing unusual annuals and perennials,
he learned the secrets of cultivating a huge array of domestic and exotic
plants. The author of Tender Roses for Tough Climates, as well as a contribu-
tor to such publications as Harrowsmith and The Garden (magazine of the
British Royal Horticultural Society), Doug provides readers with his personal
tried and true garden wisdom. He writes a weekly Internet newsletter —
Garden Magic — circulated worldwide to over 4,000 subscribers at
www.simplegiftsfarm.com.
Canadian Gardening is one of Canada’s most popular gardening
magazines. Published since 1990, Canadian Gardening is the industry leader
and has become the definitive source for novice and expert gardening enthu-
siasts. For more information, check out the Web site at
www.canadiangardening.com.
Lance Walheim graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a
degree in botany and shortly thereafter began writing and researching books
on gardening. He’s contributed to more than 40 books on topics ranging
from citrus growing to rhododendrons. He has authored three previous
books on roses.
The National Gardening Association is the largest member-based, non-
profit organization of home gardeners in the United States. Founded in 1972
(as “Gardens for All”) to spearhead the community garden movement, today’s
National Gardening Association is best known for its bimonthly magazine
National Gardening. Reporting on all aspects of home gardening, each issue
is read by some half-million gardeners worldwide.
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Dedication
Doug dedicates this book to his children, Christina, Jennifer, Robert, and
Elizabeth, who did the weeding while he did the writing.
Lance Walheim and the editors of the National Gardening Association
dedicate this book to anyone who can’t walk by a rose without sticking his
or her nose into it.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
Doug thanks the editors at CDG Books Canada, Inc. — Kim Herter and Joan
Whitman — for doing such a great job and smoothing the way to make the
book happen.
He appreciates all those who reviewed the book for accuracy and relevance
to Canadians.
Although rose lovers seldom agree on the best varieties, the best blooming
roses, or the most fragrant roses, we all agree that the rose is a wonderful
flower.
Doug sends a special thanks to Harry McGee for going over the manuscript
with a fine red pen.
Lance Walheim and the National Gardening Association say many thanks to
the American Rose Society for the information obtained from many of their
chapters, members, and publications. In addition, they thank Weeks Roses,
Upland, California; Jackson & Perkins, Medford, Oregon; Sequoia Nursery,
Visalia, California; Garden Valley Ranch Nursery, Petaluma, California; and
the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, California.
They thank Ann Hooper, a special consultant; Tom Carruth of Weeks Roses;
F. Harmon Saville of Nor’East Miniature Roses; David P. Kidger of Primary
Products; and American Rose Society Consulting Rosarians Martha Chapin,
Dr. Thomas Cairns, Robert Ardini, Malcolm Lowe, and Louise Coleman. At
NGA, editors Emily Stetson and Regan Eberhart, as well as Charlie Nardozzi
helped keep the book on track, and thanks are extended to the NGA and
the staff of the magazine National Gardening: David Els, Michael MacCaskey,
Linda Provost, and Larry Somers.
Effusive thanks to the team at IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., which includes in
Chicago: Kathy Welton and Stacy Collins. In Indianapolis, Pam Mourouzis
and Tammy Castleman contributed enormously to this book — many
thank-yous to you both.
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