Sustainable Rose Garden: A Reader in Rose Culture

Sustainable Rose Garden: A Reader in Rose Culture by Kukielski, Peter. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781935149163.

The Sustainable Rose Garden - A Reader in Rose Culture was awarded the World Federation of Roses Literary Award at the 16th World Federation of Rose Societies Convention, which took place October 2012 in South Africa. The guide to creating a NEW generation of American roses . . . This work brings together experts from around the world to inform gardeners about developments in the new—irresistible yet long overdue—trend toward creating environmentally friendly yet enduring rose gardens, with “sustainability” as the key. Pick up any popular gardening magazine and browse through it. Chances are you will soon encounter one word—"sustainability." Sustainability has, indeed, become the catchword of 21st century gardening. And for tens of millions of environmentally conscious gardeners it has become a "must" goal, rapidly being realized as part of the much heralded NEW GARDENING. This means gardening that is consciously aware of the dangerous health and environmental risks posed by using traditional synthetic chemicals and pesticides, and that seeks to return to the principles of Mother Nature, while also growing low-maintenance plants that make fewer demands on environmental resources. The Queen of Flowers, the rose—by Presidential declaration Americas National Floral Emblem—was initially left behind as “green consciousness” and the concept of sustainability took hold among the gardening public. But the rose is now making up for lost time. From the workshops of breeders—both in the U.S. and abroad—a new generation of disease-resistant and low-maintenance rose varieties has emerged in the last decade to fill popular demand. In this book, you will learn how to make your own sustainable rose garden. With 38 lavishly illustrated articles and descriptions of the best new (as well as old) rose varieties designed for the sustainable rose garden, this is a must-have book for todays new generation of avid but environmentally conscious gardeners. Table of Contents Foreword - Marilyn Wellan Introduction: Winston & Roses - Pat Shanley Growing Tea Roses - Lynne Chapman, Noelene Drage, Di Durston, Jenny Jones, Hillary Merrifield, Billy West A Close Look at Tea Roses -Lynne Chapman, Hillary Merrifield and Billy West Hennessey Revisited: Sustainability, or The Accidental Environmentalist -James Delahanty Rose Poems by Emily Dickinson -Historic Disease and Pest Control among Roses -Alice Flores Rose Studies: Watercolors and Drawings Documenting the Genus Rosa -Maria Cecilia Freeman Tea and Roses -Bill Grant Earth-Kind® Rose Trials — Identifying the World’s Strongest, Most Beautiful Landscape Roses - Derald A. Harp, David Zlesak, Gaye Hammond, Steve George, and Wayne Mackay Charmed by the “Thereness” of My Roses -Pat Henry Beautiful Foliage, an Important Design Element - Janet Inada Secret Garden Musk Climber - Jeri Jennings Rodents versus Roses - Jeri Jennings The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden’s Dual Mission of Disease Resistance and Protecting ‘Eva’ - Peter E. Kukielski The Roosevelt Island Rose Garden - Marjorie Marcallino Health in David Austin’s English Roses - Michael Marriott Mankind’s Second-Oldest Occupation (Cont’d.) - Clair G. Martin iii The Birth of a Rose Garden - Karl Mckoy Soil and Water and Roses - Dan Mills Notes from the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden - Barbara Oliva A Life Filled with Roses - William M. Patterson The Pillar Rose - William Paul (1822–1905) Report on Kordes® ADR Roses in the United States, 2010 - Gary Pellett Sustainable Gardening Practices at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden - Jill Perry and Brian Debasitis Memoirs of a Condo Rose Grower and Composter: Containers for Roses - Ellen Spector Platt Talking about My Work with Roses - William J. Radler The Days of … Chickens and Roses? - Ron Robertson Garden Valley Ranch Compost Tea Program - Ron Robertson An Accidental Sustainable Rose Garden - Stephen Scanniello The Historical Significance of ‘Knock Out’ - Pat Shanley Probiotic Rose Growing - John Starnes Etiquette of the Rose Rustle - Allison Strong It’s Only Water! - Billy Styles and Alan Talbert Fire Ants versus Molasses - Betty Vickers Sustainable Rose Growing and the Breeding of New Roses: The View from India - Viru Viraraghavan Sustainability Genes: Breeding the Blackspot-Resistant Rose - Vance Whitaker A Century (or Two) of Hybrid Musks - Jeff Wyckoff Contributors