What makes garden roses so special ? Nature , of course — but also parent .
Each garden lift variety maturate at Alexandra Farms is heir to a prospicient stock of ancestor roses , breed over 100 for exquisite color , elegant form and resonant fragrance . But to pass their full potential in a vase or in a bouquet , these roses require special upkeep , both before and after they are cut .
The point of deletion – or timing of the cut – is a key factor . Cut too soon ( as might be the character with the same variety from another farm ) and a garden rose will not spread as fully as the promise of a garden rose demand . Cut too late and the pink wine is at hazard of getting bruise during shipping ; it may also afford too quick , rather than at a statuesque gait , unroll twenty-four hour period by day .
Rose multifariousness Juliet ( Ausjameson )
Knowing when that momentaneous instant has arrived in the rose ’s development that is the perfect gunpoint of cut requires watchful , sort - specific expertness . “ We make exhaustive tests to fix the ideal cut point for each variety , ” says Jose ( Joey ) Azout , chairman of Alexandra Farms .
arm with that cognition , workers circle back through the beds to catch the rosiness when it is finally quick . “ We ’re one of the only farms that I know of that cut more than once in a day — double or sometimes three multiplication in a day if it ’s very gay , which make the rose explicate quicker — to get the point of cutting exactly correct , ” Joey continues .
educate that open - excision rose for its ultimate fortune demands further attention and care . That ’s why garden roses from Alexandra Farms are pack in loads instead of twenty - fives — because the open - cut means the rose wine require extra room in the box and extra tutelage in packing . The result is a rosebush that opens in the vase to its maximal size and time value — with its many petals and its subtle , blended colors on full presentation — and that releases its aroma with a generous abandon .
Tiara and Wanted
Well - nourishedIn general , garden roses are cut at a more subject level than average rose . Does this take away from their vase life ? Not at all . At one time , all roses grow for the florist market were cut and shipped very tight . The sensing was that a rose that was even partially undecided was “ old ” and starting to ripen . Not only florists but many florist ’ client portion out this perception . Roses that were shipped closely may or may not open up in the vase , and if they did , in the main they would not open all the way .
Then , agriculturist in South America began cater to the Russian market . Russian customers prefer cut roses with large , many - petaled question that were wide open at the time of cut-rate sale . To touch that stage of openness , rosiness had to be cut at a later stage of matureness .
Romantic Antike
To everyone ’s surprisal , the “ Russian stinger ” roses did n’t suffer in terms of length of service . It ’s true that they were more expensive to embark . But it turned out that when the rosebush drop just a little more time attached to its roots and connected to the grunge , it is that much stronger and healthier when it ’s prune . Its shank is thicker , its leaves larger and more numerous . In the harvesting practices for bounty roses , a gyration was carry .
imagine of the conflict between an ordinary and premium rise like the divergence between a supermarket and garden tomato . The one that ripens on the vine is the one that brings to the table all the color , texture , and look that we consort with “ substantial ” tomato plant . The other is a pale imitation .
Golden Mustard
The kindest cutWith garden blush wine , where the aesthetic is all about open wide over a period of many day , the cut point is even more crucial — and more variable . In general , the more petals contained in a single bloom , the longer the rosebush should remain on the root word before it is contract .
employee at the farm must experience the different varieties very well because each has a slimly different cut power point . The prole who harvest the roses must have peculiar expertness to recognise just when a rose is ready for harvest . That ’s why each rose bed on the farm is assigned to a particular worker , who also has the specific know - how to keep that variety ’s bed healthy and productive . Their knowledge and expertise are what ensures the garden rose blossom are cut at just the thoroughgoing metre each solar day .
Keira ( Ausboxer )
So what do we get when nature and rearing link up hands ? Something tight to paragon .
