How To Grow Roses It's a brand new year and many people's thoughts have already turned to gardening. You may even be thinking about adding a few roses to your garden.   Master Gardener and Rosarian Ron Daniels joins us to share step by step instructions on how to get started growing roses in your garden. Join us! Rose Pamphlet from Ron: rosetherapy23@gmail.com. Great Giveaway This Week: S & W Greenhouse is giving away a $100 and a $50 gift certificate to be used toward their beautiful line of roses.  To enter: You must  LIKE them on Facebook and then comment on the contest post on Facebook. A random drawing will be held during the broadcast and we'll announce the winner on the show.  WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU - We encourage you to call in during the live broadcast (347) 677-1870 with comments or questions or your may ask a question on twitter using the #RoseChat hashtag in your tweet or by send your questions via e-mail to: GROW@RoseChat.info. Following the live broadcast, all shows are available on-demand and are also available for download to iTunes. Stay informed on upcoming broadcasts via e-mail: http://eepurl.com/nINYz    Check out our website:  www.RoseChatRadio.com

Growing roses in cold zones (3-5) can be a challenge in winter. This week Jack Falker, a rosarian from Minnesota will share tips for keeping your roses safe and sound for the cold winter months. He'll also share why he's against the "Minnesota Tip".     Also Scheduled to appear:     Jolene Adams, President of the American Rose Society  Bob Martin of RoseShow.com will join us to share a poem of the season for rose exhibitors! SHOW LINK:  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rosechat/2012/12/15/rose-chat-radio   WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU   We encourage you to call in during the live broadcast (347) 677-1870 with comments or questions or your may ask a question by leaving a comment, on twitter using the #RoseChat hashtag or by sending your questions via e-mail to: GROW@RoseChat.info   Immediately following the live broadcast, all shows are available on-demand and are also available for download to iTunes and all other podcasting outlets.   Stay informed on upcoming broadcasts via e-mail: http://eepurl.com/nINYz   Our Website: RoseChatRadio.com 

  Certified Roses is proud to introduce its Simply Brilliant™ collection for the 2013 selling season. Featuring seven internationally award- winning roses from the renowned Kordes® breeding program, the collection is available exclusively for independent garden centers.    With today’s gardener in mind, these Kordes varieties truly represent the next generation of roses—combining the elegant look of a traditional rose with environmentally sustainable plants that are low maintenance and naturally disease resistant.    Based in Germany, Kordes is a family-owned business that’s now in its 4th generation of breeding and growing roses. Internationally recognized for breeding exceptional roses, each Kordes rose is put to the test in rigorous trials located at eleven sites throughout Germany. For garden roses, trialing for disease resistance, fragrance, flowering, and vigor often requires a minimum of seven years.   Tyler Francis joins us to talk about this "Simply Brilliant" line of roses! Join us!

Join hosts Chris VanCleave and Teresa Byington as they welcome a few of their garden pals to talk about some awesome gift ideas for Rose Gardeners. Read on for details on a great giveaway from JoyUsGarden.com  We've been searching all year for the best in gift ideas for  gardeners and we'll be sharing  unique gifts that are sure to please.    Don't shop for the gardeners in your life until you hear this show! To be eligible for the giveaway:  Comment on the Christmas Gift Guide Blog Post on RoseChatRadio.com by clicking HERE The winner will be announced on Wednesday December 5, 2012 on the show blog and will be notified via e-mail. Stay informed on upcoming shows! Sign up for our weekly newsletter HERE

From the people who brought you such introductions as "Dream Come True" and "Julia Child" , Karen Kemp-Docksteader from Weeks Roses joins us to preview their 2013 rose introductions.   Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower is one of the largest commercial rose growers in the United States since 1938.  Our top-quality bareroot plants, container plants, dormant plantable pots and liners are sold to nurseries, garden centers, and select mailorder outlets nationwide.   Weeks Roses offers a unique broad selection of specialty roses - hybrid teas & grandifloras, floribundas, climbing roses, shrublets & shrub roses, miniature roses, tree roses, and All-America Rose Selections - AARS award winners.  We produce both budded and own-root plants.  For each rose variety, we select the propagation method that ensures maximum plant performance, hardiness and floriferousness in your garden.   Stay informed on upcoming guests! Sign up for our weekly newsletter HERE

* Broadcast Note: Technical Difficulty pause at 6 minutes 24 seconds. Show resumes within one minute afterward. Spring 2013 promises to be “Rose Heaven” for fans of David Austin Roses. Michael Marriott, Chief Rosarian for the famous Shropshire, England rose breeder will join us to talk about six exquisite new English Rose varieties to North America. The six varieties – deliciously fragrant and robust, season-long repeat bloomers.  David Austin’s English Roses are known for combining the romantic flower forms and perfume of Old Roses with the broad color range and repeat-flowering of modern roses. As a rose breeder, David Austin’s achievement is in marrying this lovely “English Rose” look with tough-as-nails garden performance, vigorous growth, full bushes, disease resistance and prolific season-long bloom. English Roses are suited to growing in full sun or partial shade provided the site is not overhung by tree canopies. Gardeners who long to recreate the English cottage garden style in their yard can rest assured that these are roses with passports. They are not only grown in England, but are truly world travelers, found throughout the U.S. and Canada and, indeed, in every rose growing country in the world. www.DavidAustinRoses.com

Paul Zimmerman joins us to talk Roses! Don't miss it. We'll be talking with Paul on the results of the "Rose Hills International Rose Trials", his thoughts on some of the new roses coming out next year and much more!    Paul Zimmerman is the owner of Paul Zimmerman Roses and the director of the Biltmore® International Rose Trials and Consultant for their main walled rose garden. He is also the host of “Roses Are Plants, Too,” the weekly rose blog on the Fine Gardening website. His book, Everyday Roses: The Casual Gardener’s Guide To Growing Knockout and Other Easy-Care Modern Roses will be published by Taunton Press in February, 2013 and launched at the show. His popular “Roses Are Plants, Too” channel on YouTube has been seen online since 2009. Paul has been a Certified Consulting Rosarian by the American Rose Society since 1994. He has written articles on roses for Organic Gardening, Fine Gardening, The American Rose, Rosa Mundi, Perennial Magazine, American Nurseryman and more. He has lectured on roses at the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, The American Rose Society National Convention, Vancouver Rose Society, and Great Rosarians of the World series in New York.   Follow Paul online at: Website: www.paulzimmermanroses.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaulZimmermanRoses Twitter: www.twitter.com/PZimmermanRoses YouTube: www.youtube.com/AshdownRoses  

Rose Chat Radio welcomes Carolyn Parker, noted author and rose photographer extrodinaire. A gifted desiger, she is a much sought after speaker and garden design consultant. We'll be chatting wth Carolyn and also Carol Green of the Marion County Rose Society about the 2012 Festival of Roses in Ocala Florida.  Hear about Carolyn's love of roses, her views on garden design and photography as well as sharing some of the wonderful stories from her book "R is for Roses" Carol Green will be sharing some rose growing tips for Florida gardeners.   You don't want to miss this broadcast!    

Troy B. Marden, Garden Writer, Photographer, Designer and co-host of "Volunteer Gardener" joins us to chat about the  Nashville Music Garden The seed for the idea of the 2,700-square-foot public Nashvill Music garden was planted when country music legend Barbara Mandrell gave her namesake rose to her friend, Pat Bullard, a LifeWorks Foundation Trustee, who recognized it as a way to acknowledge the music and artists synonymous with Nashville and also to beautify Music City. In her research, she found that over three dozen roses were named for Nashville artists, songs or industry leaders. These include Minnie Pearl (1981), Barbara Mandrell (1990), Brenda Lee (Williams Variety 1991) and Pam Tillis (2003), but the “celebrity roses” had never before been housed together in one garden for the public to view. Nashville Music Garden Website Troy B Marden On Facebook

  Depending on your growing zone, preparing your roses for fall and winter can make a big difference in whether or not they will thrive next spring.  David Strickland, rose expert from Witherspoon Rose Culture in Durham North Carolina will share some tips on preparing your roses for fall and winter.    WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU DURING THE BROADCAST   We encourage you to call in during the live broadcast (347) 677-1870 with comments or questions or your may ask a question here by leaving a comment, on twitter using the #RoseChat hashtag or by sending your questions via e-mail to: GROW@RoseChat.info   Immediately following the live broadcast, all shows are available on-demand and are also available for download to iTunes and all other podcasting outlets.   Subscribe to our Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/nINYz

This Week: Helen Yoest - Gardening With Confidence Live Coverage of the American Rose Society Fall Nationals We all need confidence in the garden and Helen Yoest will be with us to talk about her new book:   Gardening With Confidence:  50 Ways to add style for personal creativity "This book project was in me to do for a very long time. I wanted to write a book I felt was missing in the gardening community.  A book that explained the why-to and where-to garden—not just a how-to. " - Helen Yoest Helen Yoest is a lifelong outdoor enthusiast who would much rather spend a day in a garden than anywhere indoors. Helen is a stylist, garden coach, and writer. She is a contributing editor for Country Gardens magazine and Carolina Gardener magazine and field editor for Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Homes, and also scouts gardens for Southern Living magazine. She has authored articles published in more than 40 outlets, including Martha Stewart Living, The Christian Science Monitor, and Fine Gardening magazine, along with pieces for P. Allen Smith and many others.  Click HERE to order her book!

Dr. Steve George - Program Director for the Earth Kind Roses Program Joins us to talk about this group of environmentally friendly roses.  Find Our More About  EarthKind Roses? EarthKind® is an important designation given to select roses by Texas A&M University Agriculture program.  EarthKind® Roses have been through rigorous statewide testing and evaluation by a team of horticultural experts and found to possess the high level of landscape performance, disease resistance, and insect tolerance/resistance required for this special designation. EarthKind®Roses are among the finest, most thoroughly tested, and environmentally responsible plants for use in landscapes. Subscribe to the Rose Chat Radio Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/nINYz

Stephen Scaniello joins us to talk about the Heritage Rose Foundation and an exciting upcoming event.  Stephen Scanniello is best known as a hands-on gardener who transformed the Cranford Rose Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden into one of the world’s most acclaimed rose gardens.   Since leaving the Cranford in 1998, Stephen has devoted his full attention to maintaining and designing private gardens throughout the United States. He continues to lecture, write, and serve as a judge for the international rose trials in Europe and the United States. Stephen has co-authored two rose books - Roses of America (1990, Holt) and Climbing Roses (1994, Prentice Hall/Horticulture, now Macmillan). Rose Companions (2005, Cool Springs Press) is about selecting the perfect companion plants for your roses. The American Horticultural Society selected his third book, A Year of Roses (1997, Holt) as one of the Ten Best Books in Horticulture for 1997. An updated edition of this award-winning classic was released in May 2006 (Cool Springs Press). His next book, co-authored with Douglas Brenner, A Rose By Any Name, will tell stories related to rose names. This book, published by Algonquin Books, will be released in February 2009. He is currently the president of the Heritage Rose Foundation and a member of the American Rose Society, Manhattan Rose Society, Dallas Area Historic Rose Society, Heritage Roses Northwest, and Central Florida Heritage Rose Society. He lives and gardens in Jersey City and Barnegat, New Jersey.

Rose Chat Radio welcomes internationally acclaimed rosarian Dr. Tommy Cairns.  Dr. Cairns is an internationally renowned rose expert and exhibitor.   He is generally regarded as a top authority on all aspects of growing roses holding judging credentials both in the Royal National Rose Society of Great Britain, the American Rose Society and the World Federation of Rose Societies. He has judged international rose shows in South America, Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Europe.   He served as one of the three float judges at the world famous Rose Parade in Pasadena 2003 and continues to serve as their Judges Orientation Instructor.   Prior to his election as President of the World Federation of Rose Societies for 2003-2006, Tommy served as the 50th President of the American Rose Society in 2000-2003.   He was editor of both Modern Roses 10 and Modern Roses XI  - THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROSES and currently is editor of World Rose News, published twice a year by the World Federation of Rose Societies.  His recent literary efforts have been chronicled in Botanica’s Roses and the a series of popular books, namely All About Roses, All About The Easiest Roses to Grow. His latest work is The Ultimate Rose Book, published October 2007 by Abrams, New York     Tommy is probably the most decorated rosarian in the world.  He was the first recipient of the Joseph & Marion Klima Medal for “Excellence in Rose Education” presented to him by the American Rose Society at the 12th World Rose Convention in Houston, Texas in April 2000.    In 2005, Tommy was awarded the prestigious Dean Hole Medal by the Royal National Rose Society, regarded as the top award in the rose world and the only living American to hold this high honor.  

Rose Chat Radio welcomes nationally acclaimed rosarian Robert Martin, author of "Showing Good Roses" and editor of "Horizon Roses" an annual guide to selecting the best roses for exhibition.    Bob has been growing roses for more than 40 years. He and his wife Dona live in Escondido, California, where they have a rose garden of more than 350 roses of all types. He is an ARS Master Rosarian, an Accredited Horticultural Judge and an Accredited Arrangements Judge    Bobis the Editor of Horizon Roses, Rose Exhibitors Quarterly and the author of Showing Good Roses. Bob was formerly Chairman of the American Rose Society's Horticultural Exhibitors Committee and Editor of its quarterly publication Rose Exhibitors' Forum for 12 years. He is accredited by the American Rose Society as a Horticultural and Arrangements Judge and Master Consulting Rosarian. Bob is also the 2007 recipient of the ARS Guy Blake Hedrick Jr. Award for lifetime achievement in rose exhibiting, and the 2009 recipient of the ARS Klima Medal for his lifetime contribution to rose education. Bob is the immediate Past President of the San Diego Rose Society   Bob is married to Dona Martin, Consulting Rosarian. Dona is also an award-winning rose photographer, whose work is featured in RoseShow.com   Source: RoseShow.com