The Sustainable Rose Garden

Exploring 21st Century Environmental Rose Gardening
edited by Pat Shanley and Peter Kukielski

Is it possible to grow beautiful roses without the use of chemicals? The answer is increasingly a resounding YES! This collection of essays by leading rosarians, among them the Garden’s own rose curator Peter Kukielski, shows us where we are now on the path to sustainable, chemical-free—and gorgeous—rose gardens. The book will help you learn how to improve your soil to support healthy plants and select hardy, disease-resistant roses suitable for your climate.

“The thought of the chemically dependent rose, so much with us for more than fifty years, may soon be a thing of the past, as disease-free, tough new landscape roses for all purposes emerge from the brilliant work of today’s hybridizers.”
–Peter Kukielski, curator of The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, The New York Botanical Garden

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