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Hybrid Chinas and found Rose's, Gallicas, centifolias, and Damasks.. But I am not going to lie. Living on disability, I could never in a million years afford 50 dollars per rose. I understand they are 3 gallon size. I do prefer bands , myself. I cannot speak for everyone else though.

I wanted to edit to say, I'm so happy for you, I know you put alot of hard work in it! Best of luck with your business continuing to do well.

Thank you for posting the above. Good for you Susan... and the owner too..! I am glad there is another nursery run by people with a love of roses, who are moving forward responsibly and with integrity!! I will definitely make purchases at the Grace Rose Farm when things are more settled/stable for me.

As for roses, I hope to see available at some point - Pretty Jessica, Candice, Madam Julie Lasseu, Souvenir de Victoire Landeau, and Orange Smith.

Susan, I'm very impressed by your description of the nursery, its practices and the effort you've made to introduce some truly interesting roses. Your list of roses that will shortly be available when they're large enough is truly mouth-watering and contains just about every rose that I've wanted in the past and could not find anywhere. I wish your project had begun a year earlier because I now have no more room, but something tells me I won't be able to resist buying some anyway. Rose people are not known for an abundance of restraint, alas.

I didn't see the list Ingrid, where was it?

Alana, the list was at the end on the website of what was growing, but not yet ready to sell. Look at all the tabs.

Thanks Kippy! It was great to meet you in person and I'm so glad you got to see how we grow. I appreciate your generosity.

Without the guys who can work the fields we wouldn't have a Nursery and Gracie makes sure they are well paid and well fed.

Gracie's farm and nursery will be open for tours this spring and folks can see for themselves the care and attention these roses receive.

We are excited to bring beauty back and appreciate the support of the Garden Web folks because we know that, like Ingrid said, it's hard to have restraint. Please email us and take advantage of the Garden Web discount. We intend for these roses to grow in everyone's garden.

Susan

There is something about the aura and mystery of many of these roses that have been around much longer than my lifetime and may have originated in faraway places that makes them worth so much more than what a local store or nursery may carry. They are very precious parts of my garden experience. My increasing tiredness makes it difficult for me to get out much now, and being able to receive roses in the mail is a necessity now as much as a luxury. Of course I shouldn't be buying more roses at all, but Zalud House and President de Carnot are following me into my dreams.

I want to say that knowing that the people who care for these wonderful roses at this nursery are also being cared for makes me very happy. We're all in this together, and this by no means easy work deserves adequate compensation.

Best wishes with your new nursery, Susan and Gracie. I think the climate there must be ideal for roses considering how many cut roses are shipped out each week. It would be glorious to see those in bloom.

Good luck with the new nursery and thank you for introducing yourself! We are lucky to have another vendor opening up in the US.

I'm glad to see you have many more offerings coming soon in the yellow color palette, which is my favorite. One rose I've always wanted to get grafted was 'Hoag House Cream'.

-Chris

I'm blown away by Golden Oldie, which I presume is the third one down on HMF of that rose name. It is absolutely magnificent.

If I'm not mistaken, Ingrid, the Golden Oldie is the Harvey Davidson one from The Heritage. That's the one we had discussed and Susan had specifically collected there.

Kim, I'm gobsmacked by this rose, and I'm so grateful to Masha McLeod for taking those gorgeous pictures of this rose on helpmefindroses. I will boot other roses out of my garden to make room for this rose and Zalud House. What a loss it would be to lose these two very special roses. I hope that others will take a good look at these two and decide they must have them in their gardens. I'm sure there are other roses on the list that are equally worthy, but we each have to buy those roses that touch a special place in our hearts, and these two are IT for me. The third rose special to me is Souvenir de President Carnot, a rose I have had before and long to have again.

Oh my word, what gorgeous roses, Ingrid. I agree Zalud and Golden Oldie are wonderful too. Great to know which one, Kim, thank you.

You're welcome, Sheila. Susan and I both collected it last year when we were there. I wanted it for breeding and hope to have results from it this spring.