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Choosing the Right Rose
Rose Stories – Beulah Blakely
Denver’s Riverside Cemetery is the final resting place of many of Denver’s pioneering residents. Some of Colorado’s most notable early citizens including Clara Brown, Augusta Tabor, Miguel Otero, Barney and Julia Ford, Captain Silas Soule and Governor John Evans are laid to rest here. Amongst the many well know names to Coloradans is final resting […]
Rose Stories – Lemon Zen
Lemon Zen is a cheerful Noisette rose initially developed by John Starnes around 1990. John lived in Denver and was a frequent visitor to the nursery all the way back to the 1980’s. I first met him as teenager and let’s just say John had a personality you would never forget. His eccentricity served him […]
Rose Stories – Linda Campbell
Okay, this seems like an obvious choice. Of course I like the rose named after my mother, but my affinity for the variety runs a little deeper than maternal allegiance. I first came to know this rose in the late 1980’s. It cropped up in our family garden in Denver as yet another rose that […]
Hybrid Musk Roses Podcast
Listen to Teresa Byington and Matt Douglas chat about Hybrid Musk Roses!
The Case for Own Root Roses
Here at High Country Roses, all of our plants are grown on their own roots. That simply means that we produce our roses by method called Asexual Vegetative Propagation. In more practical terms, we induce roots to grow on sections the rose’s stem through the application of plant hormones. Sometimes the process is referred to […]