The fame of Josephine's beautiful formal landscapes spread throughout Europe, and soon everyone wanted roses for his own garden. Today the rose is certainly our most popular flower. Over 50 million American families have at least one rose bush under cultivation. In the majority of gardens, the roses are not a part of the total landscape design, but are grown primarily fortheir flowers. It seems unfortunate that more attention isn't given to the use of roses in the art of landscaping, for no other plant produces so many flowers over as long a period of time.
Roses range from tiny miniatures to towering climbers, with all sizes and shapes in between.
They can be formed into trees, trained into pillars, grown into huge shrubs, massed together as ground covers, or planted alone as colorful accents. The flowers offer a rainbow of color and an endless variety of sizes and fragrances. You don't have to wait years for results to show, because most roses bloom the first year they're planted. And no other plant family grows under so many different climatic and soil conditions. Best of all, they are easy to grow and their care requires only a little amount of time in comparison to the many rewards they return.