With a little TLC, you can help them flourish. Marcy Simpson “Why aren’t my roses blooming?” the gardener wonders aloud. There’s a special kind of disappointment in waiting for your garden to burst ...

Roses need lots of water to thrive, so more water can result in more blooms. Pruning and deadheading spent flowers will direct the plant's attention to flowering more. Feeding the roses plenty of ...

Deadheading roses encourages the plant to produce more blooms, which prolongs the flowering period and promotes a cleaner appearance. How you deadhead roses will depend on the variety you're growing.

Rose specialist Jai Alltizer has such a penchant for growing rare and hard-to-find roses that every year he propagates around ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

We’ve reached peak rose bloom in the Red Rose City (and beyond). Thanks to the steamy weather, roses in Lancaster’s Buchanan Park are blooming a little earlier than usual and are in peak bloom. Not ...

For 22 years, Julie Overom has been on a personal mission to develop the perfect rose for the Northland — a disease-resistant rose as pretty as a hybrid tea and hardy enough to survive Northland ...