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Product Description Discusses garden design, planting, weeding, watering, pruning, fertilizing, and pest control, and includes information on 175 rose varieties From Booklist Druitt, cohost of the PBS series The New Garden Journal, offers readers a comprehensive guide to growing roses organically. She discusses rose garden design, soil preparation, planting, propagating, weeding, watering, fertilizing, pruning, and disease and pest control. For 175 roses, Druitt provides information on name, class, color, fragrance (if any), size, blooming capability, shade tolerance, and the most appropriate growing zones. A final chapter contains recipes, such as candied rose petals, rose petal jam and pound cake, and rose hip tea, soup, sauce, and jelly. George Cohen Review This is a delicious book! Taste tempting with recipes for rose petal jam and rose hip soup, The Organic Rose Garden, is a polished feast from paper to layout to writing. The spread of photos is a banquet to the eye. From the chapter Roses in Perspective, to the quick identification chart, this informative and charming book is a satisfying repast for the rose grower with nary a thorn to snag the appetite. -- From