{"id":426,"date":"2004-08-09T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2004-08-09T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T07:15:30","slug":"smell_the_roses_without_maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Smell the roses without maintenance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:7un5DqMs9G4J:http:\/\/www.gardenrose.com\/harryell.jpg\" TITLE=\"Shrub Roses\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realestatejournal.com\/housegarden\/gardening\/20040809-chozick.html\">Amy Chozick reviews<\/a> the controversial use of shrub roses (9 million sold last year), cross bred to require little maintenance<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>he new varieties are controversial, with some long-stem-rose purists saying that even planting them is cheating. Still, shrub roses are now the fastest-growing segment of the rose market, with the nine million plants sold last year accounting for 30% of all rose sales &#8212; double the market share for shrub roses in 2002, according to the American Rose Society.<br \/>\n&#8220;These kinds of numbers are unheard of for roses,&#8221; says Keith Zary, director of research at wholesale rose distributor Conrad-Pyle, which sold 1.8 million of its &#8220;Knock Out&#8221; red-rose shrubs in 2003, up from 135,000 in 2000, the year it introduced the variety. Historically, a popular rose wouldn&#8217;t even hit the half-million mark, he says. At Jackson &#038; Perkins, a nursery based in Medford, Ore., shrub-rose sales are up 6% this year, and the nursery&#8217;s multicolored &#8220;Garden Ease Rose Blankets&#8221; &#8212; $39.95 carpets of color that bloom into the fall &#8212; are now one of the company&#8217;s biggest sellers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Chozick reviews the controversial use of shrub roses (9 million sold last year), cross bred to require little maintenance he new varieties are controversial, with some long-stem-rose purists saying that even planting them is cheating. Still, shrub roses are now the fastest-growing segment of the rose market, with the nine million plants sold last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}