DEAR JOAN: Can you or your readers shed some light on what’s eating my rose bushes at night? I don’t think it’s deer. The area is fenced, and even if they could jump the fence, the amount of damage ...

The spring garden is a place of delight. Lush green leaves, productive new canes, fresh blooms and emerging rose buds are each an uplifting cause of celebration. When we look, we also encounter blind ...

Rose bushes don't just grow from seed — they need to be propagated by specialist rose budders Small buds of new growth are taken from a parent plant and placed in a T-shaped cut in the stem of another ...

Winter is here, but gardening questions keep coming in to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and Master Gardeners ...

Baldo Villegas enjoys the many blooms in his Orangevale rose garden, which features more than 2,500 bushes. He developed a pruning method that takes 3 minutes or less per bush. Paul Kitagaki Jr.

Roses have a bad reputation: They’re finicky, hard to grow, lots of work. Well, only some of that’s true. You can’t just pop roses into the ground and expect a Miss America-sized armload days later.

I can think of no other shrub that blooms over such a long season or comes in as many colors as roses. When you factor in their wonderful fragrance, it's not surprising that roses are among the most ...

It’s late summer and the time to think about pruning roses. Many gardeners get confused about how and when to prune their roses, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. The timing is not arbitrary. We ...

Q: I purchased a house this past summer with several rose bushes in the backyard. I know it’s time to prune them, but I’m intimidated by the idea of pruning them. Can you tell me how to get started ...