Roses Touched By A Tornado

Tree Uprooted by Tornado at Garden of The American Rose Center, May 16, 2013

“He who would have beautiful roses in his garden must have beautiful roses in his heart.” Reverend Dean Hole   Rev. Dean Hole of the Royal National Rose Society said in his legendary text “A Book About Roses” published more than 100 years ago, “He who would have roses in Continue Reading

Miss All American Beauty Rose For A Day Daddy

Once upon a time there was a rose garden in the far, north. It was located one mile from the beautiful north shore of Lake Michigan off of Beach Road along a little dead-end street.  My mother planted 30 or so roses and hedged the roses with peonies and a Continue Reading

Roses, Show Roses Baby

It gets in your blood. It’s like a fever. I’m talkin’ about showing roses baby, show roses. Once you get a taste you gotta have it. You go for the blue, all the way. You want it bad. You want to be “on the table.” Your heart skips a beat Continue Reading