Roses used to be synonymous with high maintenance. But while Midwesterners still need to coddle some types of roses, recent advances in shrub roses (also called landscape roses) have changed everything. Now anyone can grow roses.
They're as easy to grow as other common shrubs, says Peggy Anne Montgomery, a horticulturist with Bailey Nurseries near Saint Paul, one of the country's leading developers of new roses. "And they bloom all summer long," she says.
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