Roses are nothing more than flowering shrubs — so let's treat them that way.

I recently launched "A World of Gardening with Paul Zimmerman." It explores the passion that connects gardeners around the world with those who also live it. Drawing on years of travel, conversations with growers and garden makers, and countless visits to gardens across continents, I look beyond the "how-to" and dive into the deeper questions — why do we garden, what's changing in the gardening world, and what does it reveal about who we are?

I've been working with and teaching about garden roses for close to twenty-five years. While living in Los Angeles I owned and ran a rose care and rose garden design company. After moving to the upstate of South Carolina I founded Ashdown Roses, a nursery offering a wide array of garden roses.

I closed the nursery in 2010 to focus on garden design, consulting, writing and speaking. I consult to both public and private gardens on sustainable care and designing gardens grown around roses.