The Perfect Last Minute Mother's Day Gifts: Jewelry + Perfume!

Mother's Day is just around the corner, so I thought I would share a few more beautiful gift ideas with you all. The jewelry and perfume I chose to share are from brands and ladies I love to suppor...

Going Home: Our visit to the Huntington Rose Garden

This past week we visited a place near and dear to my heart, the Huntington Rose Garden in San Marino. I was born in the San Gabriel Valley, home of the Rose Parade, and my love of roses began her...

Staying Safe in the Sun: Complete Sun Protection for the Gardener

Spring has officially arrived, the sun is shining, and the garden is calling! Gardeners (and those who prefer to look at pretty landscapes rather than plant them!) this post is for you. For as m...

Our Ten Years Together by Ryan

You never know what to expect on a first date! In true introvert fashion, Gracie and I met via the online dating app, match.com. I was immediately drawn to Gracie’s online profile, not just because...

Gracie's Mother's Day Gift Guide

Mother's Day holds a special place in my heart this year, as it is the first year I will be celebrating with our 11 month old daughter Seraphina! Last year on Mother’s Day we were in the midst of t...

Country Living’s May 2021 Cover: A Before and After Transformation of our Pole Barn

“The first thing we’re doing is knocking down that ugly pole barn!” In the fall of 2017 when we toured what would become our Santa Barbara rose farm, Ryan vividly remembers me uttering that exact p...

Spring is for all shades of pink!

It’s not by chance that Seraphina and I wore pink to visit the rose nursery last week. I always gravitate towards shades of pinks, and of course the pink roses that we grow are some of my absolu...

Spring at the Rose Nursery: A visit to Otto and Sons for Rose Days

This week Ryan, Seraphina and I took our annual spring trip to Otto and Sons Nursery. Since we moved back to Ventura County, we’re just 20 minutes from the nursery so that means we’ll be making mor...

The Making of the Country Living Cover

When you line up a shoot as big and exciting as our Country Living  cover shoot, the pressure is really on! Everything has to be impeccably timed; all of our roses had to be blooming in abundance...

Looking Ahead to Mother’s Day

We are officially in the busiest week of the year, the week before Mother's Day! Last year on Mother's Day, we were awaiting the arrival of our sweet daughter, Seraphina. She arrived two weeks aft...

Dear Gracie: Your questions, my answers!

We get hundreds of rose gardening questions every week, so we will be answering them here biweekly on our blog! Have questions? Send them our way on our biweekly question box over on Instagram! Is ...

Spring Vases for Your Roses!

Spring is the perfect time to start showcasing your beautiful flower arrangements either outdoors, around the house, or both! There's nothing like a blush, floral rose centerpiece to enhance your ...

We bought a new farm!

We bought a new farm!! We are so thrilled to announce we are expanding! Our new farm is in Ventura County, CA where we began our rose farming journey six years ago. Having more land, an improved c...

Top 5 questions of the week

Hello, friends! We've been getting lots of question over on our instagram lately, so we thought we'd start answering some here on our blog for you! Have more questions? Make sure you send us a mess...

Celebrating Valentine’s Day, the Rose Holiday of the Year

In celebration of Valentine‘s Day we are including a voucher with all Garden of Grace orders over $149 for one dozen roses in your choice of color shipped in the spring! Upon purchasing your Garde...

Introducing our Garden Rose Botanical Collection!

We are so excited to finally reveal one of the new projects we’ve been working on at the farm. Our Garden Rose Botanical fine art prints debut ‪this Tuesday‬! A celebration of nature, botanical art...

Fall Vases & Vessels for Your Garden Roses!

We love updating our decorative flower vessels for each season, so we compiled a list of some of our favorite fall vases for you! We did our best to provide a plethora of autumn vase aesthetics,...

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...