DENVER — Many people may have received a miniature rose bush on Valentine's Day. They're charming and pretty, but most end up in the trash. Don't let that happen. You can grow it and it will become a ...

If gardens had a favorite food, it might just be bananas. Though overripe bananas are great at attracting hummingbirds, plants seem to prefer the peels. This is especially true for rose bushes, which ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...