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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Maine’s most well-known rose, rosa rugosa, is actually an ancient rose from ...

It is difficult not to love roses. Their ravishing charm can tempt one beyond endurance, and the sight of them in catalogs and in the glossy color photos that adorn packages in garden centers in the ...

The rose is a flower with a past. It holds an allure like no other flower -- it's been cultivated longer than recorded history, its likeness has been carried into war, it is the essence of 'Peace,' ...

Rosa rugosa is covered in simple, deep pink flowers all summer and one of the best hip-producing roses, bearing round red ones through autumn and into winter. It makes a great hedging plant, loved by ...

On our annual summer vacation in Maine, we spend most of our time in and around Acadia National Park, a destination for our family since we were kids. It’s an incredibly beautiful area, and either ...

A quintessential image associated with the rocky coast of Maine south to the long sandy beaches of the Cape is the beach rose. Long hedgerows of this prickly shrub guard the backs of beaches and ...

Rugosa rethink Last year we planted a long row of 17 rugosa rose bushes to create a low hedge between two areas of garden. There are now numerous suckers appearing from the base of the bushes and also ...