We are have reached a plateau this week. After parabolic growth in successful seedlings, we have finally slowed down. I attribute this to the week of warm weather we had and now we are walking back into colder temperatures. After this week we expect to have seedlings popping up muchContinue Reading
Wow, what a week. The weather has been windy as of late. I was replanting some of our starter seedlings into larger containers and I thought my greenhouse was going to come down. The wind was gusting from multiple directions. That said, there was one big success today. I replantedContinue Reading
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
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