Dog rose Archives

5 alternatives to invasive Scotch and French broom

Native alternatives exist to plant instead of invasive Scotch or French broom. They’re even more beautiful, if you consider that planting them restores habitats and

11 plant-me-now melliferous shrubs for pollinators

As appealing to us as they are to pollinators, melliferous plant species are where pollinator insects reign as kings. These beautiful flowers are gorged with pollen and nectar offered up for pollinators to feed on, a trade-off that 80% of all flower-bearing species sign up for in order to reproduce.

12 shrubs for a versatile mixed hedge: evergreen, berries, foliage and deciduous

Out with the unending lines of thuja! These days, planting mixed hedges is all the fad. In such a hedge, evergreen leafage, colorful blooms and species that

Dog rose, a rose tree with a rather wild touch

Plant a dog rose bush in a corner of your garden.

Grow a garden birds will love!

Attract chaffinch, great tit, blue tit, robin, greenfinch, goldfinch, wren, spotted woodpecker,

Attracting birds to the garden means making them want to stay

Dog rose health benefits, bundles of vitamin C against ageing

Often thought of as a wild plant, dog rose –the rose-hips, specifically– has many health benefits that help cure body ailments. Dog rose is a plant native to North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. It grows in forest clearings and along forest edges, in hedges along grazing prairies and on rather dry soil (especially […]

Grafting, purpose and best techniques

Grafting, together with preparing cuttings, is one of the most important know-hows to learn when propagating trees and shrubs.

Rose health benefits and therapeutic value

Rose trees (Rosa) is a thorny shrub native to Europe and to the Middle East, that sometimes produces edible fruits.

Single pink rose of the Rosa gallica variety

Care-free rose trees

It isn’t always easy to choose the right rose trees. They all seem so healthy and magnificent at the nursery store! It helps to have a few guidelines to understand the “who’s who” of roses, especially when you try to consider their resistance to disease.