| | Roses For Dummies - A Reference For The Rest Of Us! |  | Author: Lance And The Editors At The National Gardening Association Walheim
Publisher: Idg Books Worldwide
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
ASIN: B000QEC3VO
Publication Date: 1997
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Condition: NEWEST EDITION
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This book gave me the courage to be ruthless July 29, 2008
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You can tell from the other reviews that this book has the strengths and weaknesses of the other Dummies Books.
So I will tell you how this helped me. Twice this book has helped me. First I bought a Lady Banks (Rosa banksiae) rose, I did not realize that they grew VIGOROUSLY and could spread over 20 feet. This was a small area. After reading this in the "Roses for Dummies" book I ran outside ad saw Lady Banks reaching for my cat. Needles to say she (the rose) was moved to a location where she could go wild. My cat has recovered. The more important thing I learned from this book was that you have to be ruthless when it comes to pruning. Before the book I snipped and trimmed my floribundas, as any sane person would do with their favorite hedge. Well it got gnarled and mildewed. So back to the book I went to find in chapter 19 that the proper way to shear this particular type of rose was under the heading of "The shear pleasure of pruning floribundas and polyanthas" After that I did not even need to read the mildew section.
The only dummy is the one that does not buy this book.
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