RoseFile forums

Forum information. And a place to welcome new members

What's Happening in Your Garden?

Treat everyone to photos of your rose garden

Tell us a gardening tall tale

List roses you lust after but do not have in your garden.

A running list of roses removed from gardens for failure to perform.

Tips, tricks, problems, and solutions for rose cultivation

Praise good cultivars. Complain about bad ones. What thrives, what dies.

Discuss the special challenges of growing roses in frosty locations. Which roses thrive? What special practices help?

Discuss growing roses in humid, warm areas such at SE USA where fungal disease thrives.

Wild temperature swings and drought produces stress on roses. Which roses stand up? How do you deal with the special challenges of the mountains?

California, Western Europe, New Zealand, and Southern Australia can be perfect locations for roses. Show us what they can do here

Dry, warm summers and cool, damp winters make for ideal conditions for tea and hybrid tea roses. Show us what they can do.

From spider mites, rose chafers, and aphids through locusts and voles right up to deer, which pests plague your garden. And how do you deal with them?

Black spot, mildew, rose rosette, virus, and gall. Talk about diseases that infect your plants.

Roses with cupped flowers, fragrance, and shrubby form.

Hybrid tea roses, floribundas, and roses closely related.

Miniature and small roses

Roses that perform well in many places without lots of spraying or fertilizing.

Roses that do well on pillars, posts, trellises, and arches.

A recent entrant, Palatine features many Kordes roses and a lot of classics on multiflora rootstock.

Another great source for old, classic roses and for roses bred by English and and Continental breeders.

ARE features roses that have thrived on neglect. Especially good for hot and/or sultry parts of the country.

Another supplier of tough own-root roses based in Texas.

Featuring roses bred in California and those that have recently been popular. Also a mail-order source of some Meilland roses.

Features David Austin English Roses on Dr Huey rootstock. Also a great source for some classic old roses.

With a long list of award-winning hybrid tea and floribunda roses, it also has a reputation for shipping very healthy and robust plants.

A rich variety of venerable roses on their own roots.

A huge collection of roses of every class. A collector's paradise.

Roses on fortuniana rootstock - well suited to sandy Florida, Texas, and southern California.

Mostly Miniatures with some Floribundas and Hybrid Teas.