Landscaping with Roses (Black & Decker Outdoor Home)

The world's most popular flower - the "Queen of Flowers" - is strikingly and memorably featured in this new, full-color, activity-filled book. It is one of the only rose books fully endorsed and recommended by the American Rose Society (ARS). The book features the ARS' 20th Century Commemorative Rose Garden and their selection of the most popular, trouble-free roses of the past 100 years.

Clear, colorful pictures and easy-to-understand text explain every reason to include roses in a home landscape. All popular rose classes are included: Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Grandiflora, Miniature, and Polyantha, as well as a host of fragrant, old garden, and heritage rose favorites. The book is practical, too. Every one of its building and planting projects include detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions depicting technique, necessary materials and required tools.

Here's why this will be the best rose book you've ever seen:

**Features a comprehensive encyclopedia of the 100 award-winning roses, USDA plant hardiness maps, important on-line web resources, and an easy-to-use index.
**Shows how to grow and maintain every All-American Rose Selection from 1990-2000, including the 10 most fragrant roses, popular miniatures, and cold-climate roses.
**Chapters feature: Beautiful Rose Gardens, Landscape Design, Installing Rose Gardens, Planting, and Rose Care.
**Features 26 step-by-step projects including arbors on which to train climbing roses and a formal rose garden made from masonry blocks.
**Contains more than 300 full-color photographs, with color pictures on every page.
**It is suitable for every garden - U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico or the world - and it contains complete metric conversions.