Antique Roses for the South - Softcover

Welch, William C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589791037 ISBN 13: 9781589791039

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

"Belinda's Dream", "Katy Road Pink" and "Georgetown Tea." The names alone evoke images of glorious cottage gardens and arching trellises laden with perfumed blossoms. Offering gardeners hardiness and ease of care, some roses have even lived for decades untended. All provide their admirers with years of pleasure and enticing fragrances. In this revised edition, rose expert Bill Welch updates the latest information and top sources for antique roses. The improved Antique Roses for the South is filled with gorgeous images and offers chapters on care and propagation, landscaping and arranging, and rose crafts. The comprehensive dictionary lists more than 100 of these magnificent flowers, complete with helpful descriptions.

About this title

About the Author:

William C. Welch serves as Extension Landscape Specialist in the Department of Horticulture Sciences at Texas A&M. For nearly thirty years, Bill has served on the board of Texas Garden Clubs, Inc., as Landscape Design Chairman. He is a past president and current board member of the Southern Garden History Society, and Member-at-large of the Garden Club of America. He is the author of Perennial Garden Color, and co-author of The Southern Heirloom Garden and The Bountiful Flower Garden. He resides in College Station, Texas.

Review:

Some of the easiest roses to grow in Volusia and Flagler counties are "old-garden" roses. That's why William Welch's 1990 classic, Antique Roses for the South remains timeless for anybody interested in the subject. (Daytona Beach News-Journal)

Listed as a rose reference (Dallasnews.Com)

...[a] fantastic new book. (The Houston Chronicle)

An antique rose is more than just an old rose. It's the Rambo of the flower world. To learn more, [Antique Roses for the South] is a helpful area resource. (The Dallas Morning News)

An excellent choice for novice rose growers. (Don Davis The News and Advance (Lynchburg))

Antique Roses for the South is wrought from experience. It is meant to alleviate the frustrations southerners feel when they try to figure out which old roses will grow well in the hotlands. A useful book. (Horticulture)

This book will be helpful to rose lovers in the lower South and possibly in the milder parts of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It will also delight all garden dreamers with its color photographs or roses growing in many landscape settings, which demonstrate the great variety of the genus and the beauty of its many forms. I recommend this beautiful book for its information and its inspiration. Every gardener needs both. The volume itself will ornament the house until the first rose bud opens. (Harriet Jansma Fine Gardening)

This book contains a wealth of information for growers interested in cultivating antique roses. (Carolina Gardener)

Antique Roses for the South is a treasure made even more valuable considering the challenge. When you write a book about roses, something will be lost in the translation. It certainly won't smell or look as good as the real things. Given that handicap, Dr. Welch does a superb job of telling about the history, culture and preservation of old roses that have stood the test of time in the hot and humid South. (Mark Stith The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Antique Roses for the South is a top-notch work of interest both to rose collectors and those who simply wonder what that sweet-smelling rose was that grew by Grandma's porch. (Steve Bender Southern Living)

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1589791037
• ISBN 13: 9781589791039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216