Preparing for the Autumn Flush: A simple feeding and spraying routine for beautiful blooms

Besides spring, autumn is the most beautiful time for garden roses. Cooler temps allow the plants to grow without heat induced stress, and blooms are typically large since they mature slower than i...

Grace Rose Farm is proud to be a woman-owned business!

Grace Rose Farm started as a passion project - a garden full of the unique and special roses that I love - and now it has grown into a business that is succeeding beyond my wildest dreams. My missi...

Honoring my Dad: A note from Ryan

This weekend marked five years since my dad passed from Alzheimer’s. He was a larger than life character - funny, kind, gentle, humble, caring, loving, supportive, encouraging, chivalrous, and so m...

What is a garden rose?

One of the most frequent questions that we receive is so simple in theory, but actually requires a longer answer: What is a garden rose? Everyone knows what a rose is, and could easily pick one ...

Tips & Tricks for Beautiful Summer Roses

Whether you’re a grower like us or someone who wants to have beautiful roses in their garden, here’s what you can do this coming month to have the best summer roses! Since it’s summer watering d...

Drying Your Rose Petals

There really is nothing prettier than the scent of real garden roses. Drying your petals allows you to continue enjoying your Grace Rose Farm roses after they start losing their petals.    Once yo...

Gracie's Favorite Gardening Hats

A good gardening hat is a must have if you are spending hours a day outside in your garden! I have tested many gardening hats over the years, and get asked all the time which gardening hats are my ...

Rose Centerpieces & Bouquets for the Perfect Tablescape

We hope you are all having an amazing weekend! Gracie and Ryan are currently with their sweet newborn, Seraphina, in the NICU for a few weeks. They are both currently away from the farm and taking ...

The Best Vases & Shears - Our Favorite Vases and Shears

  We get asked so many times a day what kinds of flower vases and rose pruning shears we like to use for our bouquets, so we thought we would share them all with you here!  Our favorite decorative...

Top 10 Favorite Rose Books

I personally own and love all of these books! At a time in life when we have everything we need accessible by google, I love being able to open a gorgeous book to get the information I need. The in...

Chatting all things flowers with The Flower Podcast

Recently I had the opportunity to get to know Scott Shepherd from the Flower Podcast and sit down with him for an interview. If you’re not familiar, Scott’s podcast centers around the cut flower i...

Dreams do come true

This spring is a monumental time for our little farm. Two of the things I pinned on my vision board years ago are taking place right now!! I’m a dreamer with lofty goals and I honestly wasn’t sure ...

The barn: the heart of our farm

We are clearing the winter dust bunnies in our sleepy barn to go back into full production in under two weeks!! Packaging and shipping supplies are ordered, new shears are on their way, tape guns a...

Mother's Day Bouquet Shop

  Our Mother's Day Bouquet Shop We are touched and overwhelmed by the amount of inquiries we’ve received for our garden rose bouquets! It's heartwarming to know so many of you want to support our...

Going organic from the ground up!

This photo is not one I would typically share, but it’s beautiful in it's own way and I’m so proud of it. For the first year in our farming journey we will not battle weeds. I can’t believe I’m say...

Japanese Beetles: Prevent your roses from being eaten by summer's worst pest

This week's rose care newsletter is contributed by Susan Lyell of Restoration Rose. You can follow Susan on Instagram where she shares her vast knowledge of growing roses and shop her artisan rose ...

Taking on Thrips Naturally

Everyday I receive numerous messages from people asking what the brown marks are all over their roses, specially in the heat of the summer. I don’t even need to see a photo to know it’s western flo...

Old fashioned roses, grown the old fashioned way: Our reality of flower farming and building sustainability

Before I get into the heart of this post I want to preface it with the following: We (Ryan and I) are fully aware of and thankful for our good fortune. We are blessed to live this life. We came in...

rose planting: getting roses off to a great start for many years of beauty!

Happy almost spring! It seems like everything in the garden is starting to wake up! Today we gained an extra hour of daylight which is so appreciated with how much work we have left to do at the fa...

rose pruning: a little work for a great reward

It's January in California and that means rose pruning time! To be honest, up until recently I've always dreaded pruning, not because of the work involved, but because it meant stripping my roses d...