Roses

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day

As we head into May it is time for an extra special holiday, Mother’s Day - the day we celebrate Moms everywhere.  This day was set aside to honor perhaps the most important person in each of our lives in 1914, after years of…

Is There A Rose In Your Future?

Is There A Rose In Your Future?

While it may be still and quiet in our gardens, it is anything but in the garden center this time of year.  All over Puget Sound, nurseries are receiving their once-a-year deliveries of bare root roses, and diligently pruning and potting them up for you to…

It's Time To Plant Roses

It's Time To Plant Roses

It’s that time of year again when garden centers fill their benches back up with a whole new crop of bare root roses. Our crews have spent the last several weeks carefully pruning and planting several thousand of them so they can be taken home and lovingly plunged into your gardens. Please remember that roses are seasonal and they are only ordered once a year, so when they are gone, they are gone until another year comes along. Here are some tips on how to grow fabulous roses in our maritime climate…

Bare Root Roses Have Arrived

A lot happens behind the scenes in a garden center in the month of January.  Most of it isn’t very glamorous and frankly is just plain hard work.  The weather is always cold and usually wet, sometimes even snowy.  And yet, the arrival and planting of bare root roses is one of those activities that is probably the most looked forward to for garden center employees - a rite of passage some would say…

What The Heck Is The Difference Between Hybrid Tea, Grandiflora & Floribunda Roses?

I had an interesting conversation with a customer a few weeks ago.  She was of Asian decent and was raving about our Hybrid Tea Roses.  I understood her to say that she was amazed at the variety of roses that she could make tea from.  I presumed she was talking about using the rose hips to make tea, but she clarified for me what she meant…