Roses
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Roses are one of the most beloved garden plants, providing beautiful flowers, alluring scents, and colorful hips throughout the growing season. Learn more about selecting, planting, growing, and overwintering the many types of roses grown in Iowa yards and gardens.
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Growing Roses in Iowa
Roses (Rosa sp.) are the quintessential garden plant. Their beautiful blooms come in many shades of pink, red, yellow, cream, white, and all the colors in between. Many are wonderfully fragrant and bloom from early summer to frost, forming colorful hips (fruit pods) in the fall. They make excellent cut flowers. The blooms make beautiful edible garnishes, can be dried for things like potpourri, and the hips are used to brew aromatic tea.
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