Dear Master Gardener: I bought a beautiful trellis on a closeout sale last fall and would like to plant a climbing rose. Is it too cold up here for climbing roses and are they difficult to grow?

Everyone loves roses, whether it's an elegant bush of bright red blooms or a bed of pink blossoms. Another way to add roses to your garden is via the climbing variety, which can grow along fences, ...

Dear Master Gardener: I bought a beautiful trellis on a closeout sale last fall and would like to plant a climbing rose. Is it too cold up here for climbing roses and are they difficult to grow?

Q. What's your best recommendation for hardy, disease-resistant climbing roses in our climate?-David Solberg, Fargo A. Many climbing roses advertised for other regions lack winter hardiness, and are ...

A rose is a rose, right? Not necessarily. For gardeners, roses today can be confusing. Yet there’s a rose for just about any garden. In the 1950s and 1960s, a rose garden often meant a collection of ...

We all know the Minnesota state bird is the loon but did you know the Minnesota state bee is the rusty patched bumblebee — so named in 2019. It is a fuzzy bumblebee with a rust-colored patch on its ...

SQ: We have a split-rail fence that we would like to make more attractive. We know we would like climbing roses on it, but we are not sure we are up to all the spraying, pruning and winter protection ...

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 ...