I have three rose books that I don't need anymore. David Austin's English Roses by David Austin, 100 English Roses for the American Garden by Clair Martin, and The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book. The weather sucks and I thought there are people who do NOT have a spray free garden and would like some books on English roses. The books are wonderful with great pics. If someone wants them just email me and you can pick them up. I thought about shipping but thought I would start of local to save myself the trouble of packing and the post office. Amy PS These are free to any rose addict like me. Smiles

I hesitate to suggest this, since it isn't really what you are looking for, but Modern Roses 12 is worth considering. It is a compilation of about 32,000 rose varieties, with information on bloom and growth habit, parentage, additional sales names, when introduced, etc. And it has 64 pages of full color pictures of roses, including some you probably have never heard of. Even better, it gives you online access to the Modern Roses database. This database contains all the information that is in the book, plus more. As new roses are introduced they are added to the database, so it isn't a static record. The same is true for additional information on existing roses. Further, it is searchable so you can, for instance, find out all the roses that have Peace as a parent simply by using a simple search command. If you want to find all the yellow floribundas, you can search for that. Finally, it currently has roughly 2,500 pictures of roses, with more to come. Our goal is to have a picture included with the vast majority of roses in the database. It's not really the kind of book you can snuggle by the fireplace and enjoy, but it does have an enormous amount of information and more rose pictures in the database than you will find in any other publication. It is only carried by the American Rose Society, so you have to go to their website to get it. I think you will be surprised by what all is included.

Do you still have your rose books? I do not have any on your list but have lots of seeds and plants. Sunny

Ortho puts out an excellent soft cover book called, "All About Roses". This reasonable book has straight forward information on all aspects of growing roses.