Pair the orange 'Tropicana' rose with red and yellow 'Rosemond Cole' cannas, compact tangerine zinnias, or blazing red dahlias for shocking color combos sure to create a flamboyant sight. Roses in deliciously bright colors can be real garden divas. Landscape roses are creating a buzz with more than the bees. They work as accents in the landscape, as a groundcover for carpeting a bank, or as a hedge to border a driveway. Watch for more commercial installations of easy-care landscape roses in public places, as professional designers realize the ease of maintenance that has been bred into shrubby roses.
Roses suit just about any setting.
Creating a quiet and beautiful place to escape entails creating a secluded place, surrounded by a hedge or fence, or situated in a quiet corner. Add a comfy place to sit, tuck candles into lanterns and place them among plantings of fragrant roses. Don't overlook the possibility of growing roses in large, deep containers to set on the deck or patio. Hardy shrub roses are especially easy to grow in frost-resistant wooden tubs that can be left out all winter. That leafless, bare root rose may look beastly when it arrives on your doorstep, but it will blossom into a beauty the very first summer.