Sustainable Roses

Morning Eye Candy: Sophy’s Choice

Posted in Photography on May 20 2012, by Ann Rafalko

Do you like your roses best when they’re in full-blown full bloom?

Shrub Rose ‘Sophy’s Rose’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)

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Meet Peter Kukielski, Curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden This Sunday

Posted in Shop/Book Reviews on June 6 2011, by Ann Rafalko

Peter Kukielski is on a mission to rescue the rose’s reputation.

In transforming the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden into one of the world’s most sustainable and beautiful showcases for America’s flower, Peter is preaching a new rose gospel: Roses don’t need to be bathed in chemicals, they don’t need tons of water, and they can smell as beautiful as they look.

Meet Peter this Sunday, June 12, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Shop in the Garden,  where he will be signing copies of The Sustainable Rose Garden, a volume of essays he co-edited with Pat Shanley and Gene Waering.

Peter is a wonderful evangelist for this misunderstood flower; he’s full of knowledge and always willing to share it. Stop by the Shop to meet Peter and pick-up your copy of this essential volume, then head to the Rose Garden to gain inspiration for your own home. Copy this list of all the garden’s roses onto your phone or iPad (try Evernote or print it out if you must), and mark your favorites. When your head is full of rose-scented dreams, head home, and with Peter’s wonderful book, turn your garden into your own rose-tinted paradise.

Morning Eye Candy: A Rose is a Rose

Posted in Photography on June 5 2011, by Ann Rafalko

Does anyone actually believe that a rose is a rose is a rose? If you know someone who is laboring under this grand misconception, please get them to the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, stat! This award-winning, aromatic, sustainable wonder is in full bloom right now. The Rose Garden is always amazing in June, but this year it seems even more spectacular. Visit it while it’s in its peak!

Rosa ‘Reine Victoria’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)