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