my grandmother recently passed away and i have a little over a dozen roses from her casket. i really would like to preserve them but i don’t want to press them. They’re beautiful roses, pink and white =], but i dont know how to go about preserving them. i’ve heard of the glicerine but i [...]

they munch up my roses and make them look horrible any suggestions? i dont even know what kind of bugs they are tho, i just have a bunch of holy roses every year!
Also, will using these sprays deter bees and butterflies? I do not mind them, and would prefer they [...]

I am no plant expert but my roses seem diseased. The lower thorns seem completely colorless and dead. The leaves have dark spots on them. Someone told us that it might be a fungus but can anyone give me a second opinion and more importantly how to cure them?

ok i have a very tight budget for my wedding and i realy don’t want to have to buy rose petals when i have enough i my back yard to take care that…….but i don’t know how to keep them from drying up.

my class is trying to sell wax roses for v.day….well we tried waxing some fresh cut roses. we dipped them in hot wax and blowed on them to dry them. at first they looked great. well after a day or so the petals have started turning brown AND dying. What are we doing wrong. is [...]

I’ve pressed some rose petals between heavy books and let them dry. I plan on putting them in a frame for a friend. Now that they’re dry, will they last forever or do I need to do something before I put them in the frame?

How do you care for cut roses if you plan on giving them to someone 8 hours later? I want to buy roses, but because of the warm weather (90+), I’m not sure how to make them last all day. I need to buy them early because I have work all day, and when I [...]

I’m in the process of drying my bridal bouquet. It was all roses, and right now they’ve been hanging in the closet for about a week. I think in another week they’ll be good to go.
I’d like to display them in a shadowbox, but I’ve never done this before. I’ve seen lots [...]

My roses get those really small worms that coil up and beetles. We have sprayed but they keep coming back. Any suggestions?

I was just thinking of cutting some rose stems from rose plants on the road side to use them as root stock , will it work ?

What was supposed to be a rose bush turned out to be a raspberry bush; very prolific! While I really enjoyed the fruit this year, and the plant is very healthy and the fruit was wonderful, it is spreading everywhere in my garden, and soon you won’t be able to see anything else! [...]

I am going to have roses delivered to my house, then hand deliver those roses to my girlfriend on Christmas. Since the flower delivery service doesn’t deliver on Christmas, I am having them delivered early on the 24th….how can I keep these roses nice and fresh so they won’t be wilted or withered when [...]

I have a “brown thumb” but I know I can do this, with the help of those gardeners out there in this website. I had these two roses (from a bouquet) for two weeks and I think I can make them grow roots. If so, how long do I have to wait? I just wonder [...]