Our local rose society (Fort Vancouver Rose Society) put on a spring clean-up for the rose gardens they tend to. Our area was at one time a swamp. Today, it is developed, but the thick clay soil remains. During the rainy season, the soil hardly drains and when you walkContinue Reading
Spring has come faster than we thought and we are racing to get our tasks done as quickly as possible. We have kept up on keeping our greenhouse air moving and warm on the long cold nights! We are finally being rewarded for all our hard work as our sproutsContinue Reading
Our local Rose Society (Fort Vancouver Rose Society) held its annual auction to raise money for its rose show. We were very excited to be a part of this auction as the money goes to a great cause and we get to add roses to our garden that were grownContinue Reading
We have finally exhausted our seed supply! In our last post, we had planted 1,770 rose seeds in our seed trays. Well, we had three bags of rose hips left in our fridge and we had to harvest them and sanitize them to begin the planting process. We are happy toContinue Reading
In our last post, we had planted one thousand, twenty-four rose seeds in our seed trays. Our order for new seed trays was delivered and we got to planting our seeds again. We were hoping to sow one thousand, three hundred seeds this year. That would allow us to gatherContinue Reading
In our last post, we discussed how we had finalized the collection of our seeds from our various rose plants. We had sought to collect more than one-thousand seeds to increase our odd of success in the creation of new plants. We are happy to say that, as of thisContinue Reading
We are back out in the garden this week to harvest some rose seeds. This will likely be the last time that we harvest this year, but we will soon be shifting to planting our seeds and seeing what gift we get from them. Thus far, we think we haveContinue Reading
This week, our local Rose Society chapter held an arrangement workshop. The workshop focused on traditional line design in accordance with the American Rose Society guidelines. This was the first workshop that we were able to attend and boy, were we excited. Typically when we arrange roses we stuff asContinue Reading
We are little late to the game in discussing Covid because we had not gotten it yet (WE ALMOST MADE IT 3 YEARS!!!). That said I want to express what a benefit it can be to be affiliated with your local Rose Society. The day was December 20th, 2022, andContinue Reading
I made a visit to my local Rose Society back in June/July of 2022 and had a blast seeing all of the beautiful roses they had grown on display. I chose to become a member that day. Life happened and, well, a few months went by and I remembered thatContinue Reading