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.
Texas Gulf Coast Gardening
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.
Small Press - Sherry Armendariz
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 suggestions—some practical, some philosophical.
Fine Gardening - Barbara Ashmun
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 gardener—my kind of rose.
The Times- Saturday Circulation - Katie Rowell
...an excellent collection of advice and information...The Organic Rose Garden will be on my reference shelf for many years to come.
Heritage Rose Foundation News - Brent Pemberton
Marvelous pictures, dates, and descriptions.
Fort Myers News-Press - Debbie Hughes
Any rose gardener will enjoy this useful book. The organic approach just makes it all that much better.
The Dallas Morning News - Field Roebuck
There is no better source on sensible rose growing.
Mobile, Alabama Press - Bill Finch
...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.
The Austin Sage - David Derrenbacher
Texas rosarian Druitt presents in good, plain English how to create a rose garden that's beautiful and easy to maintain.
New Orleans Times Picayune
This book breaks new ground and gives gardeners an entirely different way of looking at rose care—one that's better for the environment and the grower than the intensely chemical method that's all too often considered the standard.
Chattanooga Times Free Press - Judy Lowe
Marvelous pictures, dates, and descriptions.
..offers...'less bio-impactive' alternatives with the flair and sense of fun we have come to expect from [Druitt's] work.
This book breaks new ground and gives gardeners an entirely different way of looking at rose care—one that's better for the environment and the grower than the intensely chemical method that's all too often considered the standard.
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 suggestions—some practical, some philosophical.
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.
Any rose gardener will enjoy this useful book. The organic approach just makes it all that much better.
