Customer Reviews
Covers everything i needed to know - By: P. I. Wellman, 05 Nov 2006 
Another great Dr Hessayon book
I'm not a rose person myself but I bought this book as my wife likes roses & we had a very sad looking rose in the back garden. I was going to dig it up & compost it, glad I didn't as it just didn't like the soil it was in.
I came across the book in a charity shop [...], turned out to be a bargain reallly.
The book covers alll kinds of varieties of roses from Hybrid tea to patio & ground covering roses, even covers climbing & ramblers.
Fantastic photo evidence which helps to identify your roses, & a general description about it.
Covers what kind of rose will grow better & where is the best place to plant it.
I also found the section on how to identify diseases very helpful, it has great photos of the diseases that can affect your roses & it gives great information about how to treat it, it also covered the problem I was having with my rose.
Maintenance is covered in the book, this covered pruning & spraying.
Great references, which covers alll the information you will probably ever need about roses.
Grow beautiful roses with the help of this excellent book - By: Mr. A. C. Gilbert, 01 May 2003 Once again, Hessayon comes up trumps with his simple, easy-to-follow & well-illustrated guide. There's everything you need to know about growing roses, from the qualities of different varieties to planting & care. The book has been significantly updated to take into account the latest varieties & fashions
My particular favourite is the rose troubles area, as the illustrations enable you to pinpoint exactly what problems you have & show you how to treat them.
This book is a must for anyone starting out or wanting to reinject some life into rosebed.
