What Kind of Lavender Should You Grow?
Discover the best lavender varieties for your garden. Learn how to grow fragrant English lavender, hardy Lavandin, and more, with expert tips on planting, pruning, and care for thriving plants.
The Start of Our Rose Farm
(First published in the Roses-Canada Quarterly Journal) The farmers’ market might seem a slightly off-key place to sell roses. There among the hand-crafted soaps and blackberry honey, the beaded jewellery and ancient grains bread, I know I seemed a little out of place. Don’t get me wrong. You’d sometimes find a vendor who offered a…
Distant Drums
Griffith Buck bred this rose as part of his program to create a class of roses that had large flowers like the hybrid tea or grandiflora roses, but were more resistant to disease. While he may have made progress towards that goal, this rose is notable for one reason: the colour. Depending on the weather,…
Old Garden Roses
Discover the timeless charm of old garden roses—fragrant, resilient, and steeped in history. Learn about their origins, unique traits, and how to grow these living connections to centuries of gardening tradition.