Q: I want to plant roses to grow rose hips. I've heard that they're a good source of vitamin C. Are there varieties that make better rose hips? Is there a good time of year to plant roses? A: A rose ...

Roses are one of the most popular plants in the garden thanks to their beautiful blooms and delicate scent. But once the flowers die, the shrub is not very attractive. We talked to an expert to find ...

A question for Dan Gill: When I cut off the dead flowers on my rose bushes, I noticed that some of the past blooms have grown a ball shape below the faded flower. What are they, and should I cut them ...

Here are some questions I addressed this past week. Q: What do we do with our roses with only the hips showing? A: Hips are the seedpods of roses. Prune them off. Leaving hips on bushes signals plants ...

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but there's still plenty you should know about buying them and keeping them fresh as long as you can once you get them home. There's also a bunch of things ...

Roses are ideal cut flowers. The best time to cut them is just as the buds are starting to open. Few garden flowers make better cut-flower choices than the rose, and June is the peak month to cut them ...

Rose hips are small and scattered, they take time to gather, and they may be on thorny bushes. But their pure, wild flavor are appreciated especially in winter. Rose hips are the fruits of the rose; ...

I have an Austrian copper rose bush and this year a long branch came out from it that is red, like a Paul scarlet climber. Is it possible that this was a grafted rose and this was its original rose?