Growing Wonder: A Flower Farmer's Guide to Roses

by Felicia Alvarez

Overview

Do you dream of possessing a magical rose garden or a thriving flower farm? Whether you long to fill your own acreage with roses or consider yourself more of a weekend gardener, Menagerie Farm & Flower's Felicia Alvarez can help make your love affair with roses a joyous and rewarding experience. With her engaging and encouraging advice, Alvarez assures readers that they can grow beautiful roses successfully. Whatever your level of passion, with her twenty years of farming experience Felicia will guide you with sound advice and detailed horticultural knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781736848128
Publisher:	Bloom Imprint LLC
Publication date:	03/22/2022
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	179,532
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nestled at the base of the Sutter Buttes, in the heart of the Sacramento Valley, Felicia Alvarez founded Menagerie Farm & Flower specializing in garden roses, specialty flowers, French prunes, assorted stone fruits, nuts, and rice on over 100 acres of beautiful California farmland. She is a third-generation farmer and entrepreneur who has been farming for over two decades.

Her favorite memories as a child were tending to her grandmother’s farm garden filled with fragrant garden roses. Her love of flowers made her an avid gardener and in 2014 an accidental rose farmer. Through her specialty farm nursery Felicia hand selects unique bare root rose plants and potted garden roses to share seasonally with garden lovers across the United States.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Essay
Chapter 1 Are Roses Difficult to Grow?
Chapter 2 What is Your Rose Personality?

Chapter 3 A Gallery of Roses
Chapter 4 The Lifecycle of a Rose
Chapter 5 When, Where & How to Plant
Chapter 6 Year-Round Rose Care
Chapter 7 The Rose Harvest and Post-Harvest Car
Chapter 8 Designing With Garden Roses
Chapter 9 Resource Guide

Editorial Reviews

"This beautiful book is vivid, approachable, and full of delight. Growing Wonder reads like I'm actually walking through the rose fields with Felicia, learning her vast array of knowledge while feeling completely cared for and at home with her. Included are gorgeous spreads and explanations of rose types, growing habits, personalities, and care guides that delight your eye visually and empower you to confidently grow roses of your own. You will leave this book feeling deeply informed by its breadth of wisdom and return to it often for its inspiring, rose-rich beauty and personable guidance." — JEN LAGEDROST CAVENDER, Nectar + Bloom

"Felicia is truly the queen of roses and I have been looking forward to her book for years now. Growing Wonder is practical, down-to-earth, and filled with expert rose growing advice for every size garden and experience level." — ERIN BENZAKEIN, Floret Flower Farm and author of Discovering Dahlias

 

"What a wonderful book. Growing Wonder is absolutely inspiring, and I can sense Felicia's enthusiasm for roses on every page as she shares her contagious passion – a passion that made me want to grow more and more roses. I love her journey with roses and how they have been so present during her life. I am sure Felicia's roses chose her to be the guardian of their beauty and to share them with the world." —

GABRIELA SALAZAR, La Musa de las Flores

 

"When it comes to roses, Felicia is the authority. Before meeting her I HATED roses and intentionally removed every rose bush from every property I ever owned. I didn't even like them in vases. Then I met Felicia and my world changed! She introduced me to the true beauty and diversity of roses beyond the supermarket, and once I saw and sniffed my first David Austin I was hooked! Growing Wonder is the perfect resource for anyone interested in learning how to cultivate and grow their own garden roses." —

SHAVONDA GARDNER, SG Style lifestyle blog

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