Welcome to the SDRS calendar of rose care! This is where you can get Dr. Dick Streeper's month-to-month instructions for growing roses in San Diego.

As you can see, there are buttons for each month along the left. They aren't active on this page, but in the calendar they allow you to select the month you're interested in.

The large buttons labelled "Planting," "Pruning," etc. take you to basic "how-to" articles from past issues of Rose Ramblings.

The calendar offers two methods of care: "Traditional" and "Integrated Pest Management" (IPM). "Traditional" refers to methods of rose care practiced by most home rose growers, including the same commercial pesticides, fungicides, and inorganic fertilizers that professional rose growers have used for more than 50 years. IPM involves using many "alternative" (and presumably safer) methods, including rinsing pests from the plants, companion planting to repell or attract insects, "natural" sprays, etc.