Sustainable Farming for Beauty and Planet

Sustainability has always been a key part of the foundational philosophy at Grace Rose Farm. It is valued for its own sake — but it turns out that over the long term, sustainable strategies also pa...

Grower Partner Alexandra Farms Earned 2024-2025 Florverde Certification

Grace Rose Farm partner, Alexandra Farms, has earned Florverde Sustainable Flowers’ social and environmental standard practice certification for 2024-2025. The recertification was accomplished thro...

Grower Partner Alexandra Farms Earns Carbon Neutral Certification

Alexandra Farms and Grace Rose Farm continue to strive for success together in the industry while honoring the earth that provides the sustenance to grow our crops. We will continue to make headway...

Farmer's Day

Farmer's Day Today is National Farmer’s Day, where we celebrate one of the world’s oldest and most vital professions. As you hopefully know, we sincerely appreciate not only the farmers that help ...

Sweetest Day

Sweetest Day This is a holiday that I wish happened more often - and not just because Gracie and I grow and sell roses. For those that aren’t familiar, Sweetest Day is a day to share a gesture of ...

Princess Charlene de Monaco

Princess Charlene de Monaco Recently, we wrote about my favorite rose, Francis Meilland. While it might be my favorite, the number of roses that tie for second place is quite extensive. Perhaps at...

Rose Basics: How Often to Water Roses

Rose Basics: How Often to Water Roses The topic of watering roses is a popular one. Common questions we receive are “how often to water roses?” and “how much do we water our roses?” These are some...

Celebrating Grandparent's Day 2022

Celebrating Grandparent's Day 2022 This time last year I wrote about the special bond between my mom and my daughter, Seraphina, and am so happy to see the two of them continue to build on it. Ser...

Dondolo x Grace Rose Farm

Dondolo x Grace Rose Farm Dondolo Founder Catalina Gonzalez met Gracielinda Poulson as a customer, ordering fresh cut roses to Dondolo moms for Mother’s Day. When Gracielinda learned about Dondolo...

Back to School

Back to School Before Gracie and I started Grace Rose Farm, we both had many different careers. Gracie worked in marketing and I worked in the music industry. One of my favorite jobs was being a m...

We Welcomed Two Babies!

We Welcomed Two Babies! We’re so excited to introduce you to our new kittens!! Frannie and Sophie joined us one week ago and we love them so much already. They are six-week-old tabby kittens with ...

Water Shortages, Thrips and Keeping a Positive Outlook

Water Shortages, Thrips and Keeping a Positive Outlook We often get asked what our average day is like. I’m going to let you in on a little secret…no two days are the same at a farm. Right now we ...

Farm Update from Ryan

Farm Update from Ryan I usually stay behind the scenes overseeing employees as well as being Seraphina’s main caretaker, but I’m excited to step out a bit and share what’s been going on at our far...

Invest In Our Planet

As farmers, we have learned over the years that Mother Nature isn’t always the easiest business partner to have. However, we strongly believe that the kinder to her that we are, she in turn, does h...

National Farmworker Awareness Week

This week we celebrate farmworkers and the contributions they make to society. We also must be reminded of the progress that is yet to be made regarding their welfare, health, safety and rights. So...

Rose Care Guide

We would love for you to download our FREE Rose Care Guide. Everything we do at our rose farm is included within this guide to help you grow beautiful garden roses in your own gardens! As you will ...

Tools for Processing and Arranging your Garden Roses

Time and again we are asked what our favorite tools are for processing and arranging our roses. We thought it would be great to put all our go-to items into one place so you can have these handy to...

Rose Decor for Home - Rosey Things for Your Home

As a lover of roses and home decor, I am always looking for products that help me bring my love of garden roses into my home. This is especially true in the winter when I miss my roses! Here are so...

Beautiful Floral Books for Your Home

Whether you want to learn about flowers and gardening or just think they're beautiful, there's no denying floral books make lovely accent pieces at home. I have been collecting books about flowers ...

Business Q+A (Plus a fun personal question!)

Do your employees have rose experience or do you train them? Garden roses require very specialized training whether it’s growing them or working with them post-harvest. Some of our employees come t...

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

To my partner and best friend, I hope you have the happiest of birthdays. Today is Ryan’s birthday! He was born an Aquarius, but since he was 3 weeks early I always say he’s really a Pisces. He’s a...

Candles For Every Room

One of the most frequent requests in our inbox is when we will be releasing our rose scented candle again. With all the crazy supply chain issues and increase in costs for raw materials, we have de...

People and Planet-Friendly Garden Roses

The thought of seeking out partners, whether they are growing partners, shipping partners or marketing partners, is really scary for any farm. I sometimes miss the days when it was just Ryan, me an...

My Valentine's Day Gift Guide

Valentine's Day is upon us! To be honest, Ryan and I don't give each other gifts on holidays and birthdays. Although Ryan does have a big birthday coming up on February 18th, so I'm second guessing...

Valentine's Day Giveaway

It's the holiday of love! We are excited to bring you this amazing Valentine's Day giveaway with Markham Vineyard, Boxed Water, and Hammond's Candies! One winner will receive:  $200 Gift Card to...

Your Pruning Questions, Answered! Climbers, Dormant Spraying, and More!

Hi Friends! We receive a lot of questions via social media so I'll be choosing five per week to answer on our blog. This week, since it's pruning season for so many of us, I've chosen to answer som...

Best Garden Roses to Grow in 2022

We are so thrilled to present our most rose filled giveaway with the nation's leading own-root rose grower, Heirloom Roses! Enter here to win $700 in roses from Heirloom Roses and Grace Rose Farm. ...

Romanticize Every Day

I'm the first to forget how much I love and need a little self care, especially in the winter. As someone who puts non-essentials at the bottom of my priority list, I love the idea of reminding mys...

Winter Rose Care Guide

Hi, and welcome to our free resource on winter rose care! Grace Rose Farm's Winter Rose Care Guide provides easy to learn steps for caring for garden roses during their dormancy season. All you ha...

Grandparent's Day - A Celebration

I have so many fond memories of spending time with my grandparents when I was a little kid. The stories, laughs, projects, and adventures are what made the time between me and my grandparents so va...

What a crazy, yet beautiful week!

What a week!! Looking back on a week filled with hard things and some really wonderful moments…   A week ago today I found budworms (beyond disgusting!!) in our roses. We’ve never had caterpillars...

Our massive move is upon us!

I can’t believe it’s almost September! We’ve been at our new farm for six months and although time has flown by in many ways, it has also been a long and challenging summer. I have really missed th...

Introducing Molly Mae

We have a new Great Pyrenees at the farm! Meet Molly Mae, a two year old Pyr who has quite a story. Molly was found on a rural highway in northern CA last fall laying beside her companion that was ...

August 1st

I was five years old and had just visited my mother at the City of Hope Hospital where she was an inpatient with Hodgkins Lymphoma. Her diary says she could hear my little feet scampering down the ...

Getting To Know Our Customers

Our customers mean the world to us here at Grace Rose Farm. All of the love we pour into our blooms is meant to bring our customers joy and infuse their lives with a touch of beauty. Often, when I’...

Opening Up: 10 Things About Me

I’m often told I’m an enigma. I run a very outward facing business, but I’m actually a private and inward person who doesn’t like the spotlight. Long before I started our Grace Rose Farm social acc...

Happy Birthday, Gracie!

Happy birthday to this amazing woman! I know you don’t like to be the center of attention but today, we all celebrate you! Your passion for roses and ability to share your knowledge is just one of ...

Seraphina’s First Beach Trip

Last weekend was pretty hot where we live about 30 mins inland from the ocean, so we decided to take Seraphina to the beach for the first time! We went to the beach that I grew up going to an...

Answering Your Questions About Our Great Pyrenees

Our beautiful guardians, the majestic Great Pyrenees, are a fixture at our farm and almost as popular as our roses! We receive questions about our dogs everyday, so I thought I would answer some he...

Celebrating Seraphina and Summer

Creating a beautiful summer table with roses Summer is undoubtably my favorite season. Long days, lots of sunshine, outdoor entertaining and an endless supply of roses. We recently celebrated...

To Our Emmie June

I had plans today to write about a piece of music that’s been the most meaningful composition of my life. A masterpiece from the Romantic Period that I’ve devoured hundreds of times and traveled ex...

Our Dreamy Victoria Feature!

As someone who loves all things timeless and beautiful, I am so deeply honored that Victoria Magazine is featuring our farm in their newest issue. I have long been a fan of the magazine's romantic,...

Growing Flowers by Niki Irving

Before we dive in and introduce this gorgeous book, please join us over on Instagram to win a copy of Growing Flowers and a Grande Bouquet from us! We will pick two winners on Friday, June 18th! ...

Celebrating National Red Rose Day

Of all the beautiful blooms in the world, none are quite as beloved as the rose. The earliest roses on record, according to fossil evidence, date back some 35 million years! So it is no surprise th...

Dear Gracie: Your Questions, My Answers

I recently did an “ask me anything” series over on Instagram, and I loved answering all of your questions. I noticed that there were several questions that kept popping up, so although I answered ...

A Secret Garden Celebration with Margo & Me

One of the greatest honors for Grace Rose Farm is when we see our roses used for your special occasions and we can’t think of anything more special than a first birthday party! We were so overj...

Our Favorite Coffee Table Books

On the rare occasion we have a day off nothing beats relaxing with a gorgeous book. We’ve rounded up some of our favorites here, from those that inspire us to try new flower arranging techniques t...

A Beautifully Set Table

We love seeing how you style and arrange our roses in your homes. While we’ve always enjoyed doing customer round-ups in our IG Stories over @gracerosefarm, we thought it might be fun to highlight...

Spring Refresh For Your Home Gardens

Refreshing your garden doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. With the arrival of spring, I’m always eager to give my outdoor space attention and care. Winter weather, which varies in severity dependi...

Unique Flower Vases for Your Roses

Flower vases are truly one of the best items ever, and for many reasons. Also known as "bud vases", they come in many different forms, such as Pitchers, Hurricanes, ceramic vases, and clear glass v...