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The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 28, 2008

Janice Vogt has a little bit

of everything in her Seminole Heights gardens, but the front yard is devoted to roses.

Most are hybrid teas;

the Rose of Sharon may be

a little gardener joke. (Don't get it? It's a hibiscus in the

mallow family.)
Janice swears growing beautiful roses doesn't take a lot of work. Especially if you pay someone else to do the spraying for

disease, fungus and pests.

She uses Personal Touch Rose Service in Tampa. Prices for the full service, which

also includes dead-heading, fertilizing and pruning, start

at $100 a month, says owner Angie Sink.

As for the rest, roses like

full sun and water, at least

an inch per week,
Janice says.

She orders most

of her plants from Jackson & Perkins, www.jackson

andperkins.com,

a well-respected South Carolina company. And she sticks with Mills

Magic Rose Mix fertilizer (get 6 pounds for $15.99

at www.millsmix.com.)

To contact Personal Touch, call (813) 244-8358.

Penny Carnathan

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