The Organic Rose Garden [Paperback]

This book has good information on rose culture and organic alternatives to chemical sprays. But the best part is the extensive listing of roses that tend to be healthy without much help from the gardenermy kind of rose.Any rose gardener will enjoy this useful book. The organic approach just makes it all that much better.This is a delicious book! The Organic Rose Garden, is a polished feast from paper to layout to writing. The spread of photos is a banquet to the eyes.There is no better source on sensible rose growing.Liz Druitt's grand new book is an inspiration to those who love roses, as well as those spray not gardeners who want to grow roses without having to nuke pests and diseases....this is a book specifically for today's rose gardener.It's an excellent addition to the genre of Southern gardening books, destined to enlighten and aid growers for a long time....an excellent collection of advice and information...The Organic Rose Garden will be on my reference shelf for many years to come.The Organic Rose Garden holds up well against its competition. Photos...are color and wisely concentrated in a rose encyclopedia section that profiles the most fuss-free roses with refreshing honesty.Druitt writes in a conversational style sprinkled with humor; I felt like I was meeting a delightful, knowledgeable gardening friend. She's full of great suggestionssome practical, some philosophical.This book breaks new ground and gives gardeners an entirely different way of looking at rose careone that's better for the environment and the grower than the intensely chemical method that's all too often considered the standard.Texas rosarian Druitt presents in good, plain English how to create a rose garden that's beautiful and easy to maintain...offers...'less bio-impactive' alternatives with the flair and sense of fun we have come to expect from [Druitt's] work.Marvelous pictures, dates, and descriptions.Offers the elements of garden design necessary for an organic program, l“2