The Gardener's Apology...

I can hear ya’ll now….where have you been? Two quick answers…….California shipping lane and the Heritage Rose Foundation upcoming tour.  Here is the breakdown for the lack of communication between RPN and our friends.

Our friends and fellow rosarians in California have been waiting patiently for RPN to include them in our shipping clearances.  It stems from the Florida to California connection where both states are breeding grounds for soil borne diseases.  The Department of Plant Industry for the State of Florida takes this seriously as they should.  

All of our roses from inception (cuttings) to grown out plants must be 18 inches above ground in order to ship to California.  We have been in compliance now for several months, however our stock needed time to grow.  In addition our friends at Vintage were coming to a close and out of respect for them we decided to wait.

But wait no longer, RPN is free to ship to California any of our roses you see in stock.  And don’t forget the wish list in order to receive an email from us that your wish list rose is in stock as soon as we make it available.  

Today was our first California shipment and its the beginning of a great relationship with the rosarians out there!

Heritage Rose Foundation annual Conference will be held in Lakeland on the campus of Florida Southern College.  We were graciously invited to lead off the Friday bus tour.  We have been so excited and yet crazy busy making the nursery as perfect as we had envisioned it long term.  Many changes at the nursery not the least of which is how to accommodate a large coach bus full of anxious rosarians!   We hope to see you all there and support the HRF and their mission to save as many of the old roses before the roses become extinct.  Join the HRF or just join us here.  The Conference will have many renown speakers from all over the world. Tomorrow is the last day of the Early Bird Pricing.  Won’t you get in on the fun? 

Saturday, October 5th from 9AM - 1PM will be our monthly Open Sale Day.  If you are local please join us to see some of the changes that have taken place. Stock is plentiful and many of the climbers are a great buy for $12 a gallon before their trims afterwards.

Until Later,

The Gardener

“Preserving History One Rose at a Time”