Photo and Information Sites
Grab your favorite beverage and tissues to wipe the drool off your keyboard! Settle in for hours of happy rose web-surfing as you enjoy the sumptous photos and on-target advice from our favorite rose websites.
Photos of the roses we sell -- the section of HelpMeFind.com that shows just the roses sold by Great Lakes Roses. Also on the site, photos and descriptions of nearly every rose currently in commerce.
Dr. Griffith Buck's roses -- this Iowa State University website is the most comprehensive source for photos and information about these hardy shrub roses that look like hybrid tea roses.
Public Rose Garden Evaluations -- researchers at several well-respected public rose gardens have evaluated the winter-hardiness and/or disease resistance of many rose varieties:
University of Minnesota -- their work is presented in the book Roses for the North.
Chicago Botanic Garden -- several Canadian-bred and David Austin roses were their top roses for disease-resistance, winter hardiness and bloom production. Click here for the complete report.
University of Wisconsin hardy shrub rose research trials.
Other Favorite Websites
EveryRose.com -- a comprehensive rose reference data base.
Paul Barden's Roses -- spend hours viewing and learning about roses on this huge website, a real labor of love.
Garden Web Rose Forum -- we could spend hours each day checking on the new postings of this very active forum. The contributors are polite and supportive, unlike some visitors to other forums. It's probably because all of the Garden Web forums are monitored and flamers are quickly banned. Check out the other Garden Web rose forums on antique roses, rose propagation, miniature roses, organic rose growing, etc, etc, etc.
Michigan State University Extension -- you can use this site's internal search engine to locate information about every aspect of home horticulture, in addition to the other resources available from MSU Extension.
MSU's Landscape Alert Newsletter -- published every few weeks during the growing season, this newsletter is relevant to both landscape professionals and gardeners interested in their home landscape. It's available on-line for free or by mail for a modest fee. |
