We'd just like to wish all of you mothers out there a Happy Mother's day. I know I will spend this weekend, letting My mother, sister, aunts, and nieces know how much they are appreciated. I've got to make a last minute stop by the garden center before I leave work this afternoon. It's a [...]
Nothing is quite as disappointing as visiting a florist and leaning down to sniff a particularly attractive rose only to whiff an odor that smells a little like sawdust and a lot like the inside of your freezer. Some roses smell nice, and others barely have a scent. Sometimes the fragrance can be lost when [...]
The new catalogs are on their way if you haven't gotten one already. There are beautiful new items and, of course, all the classic Wayside Gardens favorites. The 2009 Wayside Gardens Catalog is really beautiful. I am especially impressed with the rose line-up. We have many old favorites, but there are also a few really [...]
I was browsing through our catalog, as I sometimes do when I can't think of anything else to write about. I just find a pretty plant and then talk about how pretty it is. I know it's boring, and I apologize, but they really are very pretty. This time was different. It wasn't the picture [...]
I get asked from time to time what exactly makes Kordes Roses so special, that they get mentioned so often. There are three very simple answers to that. The first is that the Kordes Rose lines are some of the most beautiful roses you’ll ever find. They tend toward the more elegant, simple colors, and [...]
With all the interesting new choices we're getting this year, I find that I keep coming back to flowering vines as a topic. Between my love of flowering vines and my almost compulsive fascination with unusual blooms, I don't see how I could not write often about some of these great new flowers. Take these [...]
Here at Wayside Gardens, we always appreciate being mentioned by newspapers. I especially enjoyed this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, because it recommended us as a source for trumpet vines. I'm a great lover of flowering vines, so that put a big smile on my face. I suspect that my love for flowering vines [...]
If you are looking for a permanent low-maintenance accent to your landscape design, and would really love the elegance of a rose bush. Don’t stress, Try a Knock Out Rose or Kordes Rose – both lines have been specifically bred to be the toughest plants in your yard. They will resist all sorts of fungal [...]
* Climbers and ramblers are a fun group of roses that have been around forever. Some early, wild varieties learned to scramble through larger plants and reach the sunlight. No rose is a true climber—they don’t permanently bind themselves to things the way that most climbing vines do. Climbing Roses just have long, flexible stalks [...]
Roses are naturally hardy vigorous plants, with some wild climbing varieties reaching 60 feet or higher and thriving in the harshest conditions. And, since the introduction of the Knock Out Rose in 2000, breeders have focused on bringing out the innate strength of roses, making some of the hardiest disease resistant roses ever seem. But, [...]