While gardeners often start out with hybrid tea roses, they most often end up growing the healthier and supremely fragrant old roses. Who can resist their crumpled petals in soft watercolor shades and their penetrating fragrance of baby powder and cold cream, let alone their lengthy and flamboyant histories? Here are a hundred of the best, with stunning color photographs and cultural information.

Belinda's Dream, Katy Road Pink and Georgetown Tea, the names alone evoke images of glorious cottage gardens and arching trellises laden with perfumed blossoms. In this revised edition, rose expert Bill Welch updates the latest information and top sources for antique roses.

Ranging from A to Z over 2,000 rose descriptions are presented, each accompanied by brilliant color photographs. Every description includes tips on care and location, information on origins, planting and blooming times, forms of growth, frost hardiness and suggestions for beautiful arrangements. A treasure chest for every gardener and nature lover for browsing, learning, seeking and finding.

This book covers the effects of North American local climate on roses. Readers will learn how to care for the plants easily and efficiently, prepare and maintain the soil for optimal plant health, control pests and disease with environmentally friendly techniques, and prune every type of rose.

Austin achieved great success as a hybridizer of his so-called English Roses, which possess a combination of alluring traits found in antique varieties and modern hybrid teas. More than a decade has passed since his first guide to these cultivars, and Austin now explains the ancestry and qualities of his roses, presenting 80 roses in six subgroups that include more recent introductions.

Award winning rosarian, Rayford Reddell shows and tells how he grows his renowned roses and takes you on a guided tour of his exquistely beautiful gardens. Filmed during the height of the rose growing season, it's a must for the beginner and an eye opener for the seasoned gardener.

James W. Smith, Horticulturist, uses his 30 years of professional pruning experience to show you how to prune your shrub roses and miniature roses.

This highly readable account is the story of one man's quest for the old-fashioned roses, fragrant and beautiful flowers largely forgotten following the introduction of tea roses in 1867.

Roses ramble through the memory of New Zealand's greatest rosarian - Trevor Griffiths.

Aurelia Scott trails these self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds, Japanese beetles, and the finicky demands of their precious charges.

Roses are the quintessential garden flower, but many people think they're difficult to grow. Right Rose, Right Place by rose expert Peter Schneider puts that fear to rest by showing gardeners that when it comes to roses, it's all about location, location, location. The right rose will thrive when planted in the perfect spot. Weeks of bountiful blooms are the gardeners reward.

What do Phyllis Diller, Raymond Carver, Madame Marie Currie, and Snow White have in common? The answer is among the stories of twelve hundred glorious blossoms and their myriad and mystifying names.

This book charts rose culture from its ancient origins through the horticulture of the 19th century to hybrid breeding in modern times.

Everything for the novice or experienced rose devotee is here-the latest advice on shopping for roses, growing techniques, planning a rose garden, maintaining healthy roses, regional tips, and yes, detailed pruning instructions (no more 'ouch.') With its lush photography showcasing over 350 roses, plus a gallery of choices hand-picked by Sunset experts, this is the resource book rose fanciers.

This book contains everything you need to know to get started, or, if you’re more advanced, refine your knowledge of roses. Now in a new Second Edition with more than 100 new varieties described, as well as new information on insect and disease control and more.

Watch, listen and learn as you join Ellen Minet, Head Rosarian of Long Island's Planting Fields Arboretum, on a most unusual and delightful walk through four seasons of caring for over 700 roses that grace the 409 acres of unique grounds and formal gardens that is the Coe Estate on Long Island's famed "Gold Coast".

This represents the first book written on growing English roses in this country. Martin selects reliable cultivars for Americans and covers all the basics of planting and maintenance. Color photos of the roses in bloom accompany growth charts, histories, and clear explanations.

One of my favorite guides to gardening, it has been expanded to include previously unlisted varieties.