There are Over 300 Roses in this STUNNING 1_4 Acre Garden! 🌹 An Incredible Rose Garden Tour

Hi everyone. Janie here. I am on a dream garden tour right now. I want to introduce you to Linda Knowles. Linda lives in Roseville, California, which is about an hour away from me. And I think you guys can get an idea of the type of gardener Linda is. Linda, thank you so much for having us here. Thank you. And I do have to apologize. I was so excited to come here. I left my microphone at home, but Linda used to be a second grade teacher. So she said she would talk loud for me. So I can use my teacher voice very easily. Thank you, ma'am. I appreciate it. So when I first moved in, um, 18 years ago, this area was a little garden. It was kind of random things and there was a real scrappy looking pine tree in the middle. And so I even asked a neighbor if they would mind if I took my pine tree down. It was very scrappy. Yeah. And then I proceeded to gradually take out all of the junk plants that they had before and start with roses. So I put the Julia child in the front as a border because Julia child is a fabulous rose, um, hybridized by Tom Carruth and it kind of knocks your socks off. It really does. It really is. So tell me how many, how many roses do you have on this property? On the property, a little over 300 and in the front here, you can kind of guess, maybe guess 50. You're close. Let's go 73. Can we go, can we go see up by the front door? If we go 73 that tells you that in my zone, zone B I can plant my roses close together and they don't get mildew or all those bad things. Yes. Thank you. Instead of two and a half feet center to center, which is what the books tell you in California, we throw the books away. Yes. I thank you for saying that. I appreciate it. We don't follow the rules really anywhere. There's no specific rules. You've got to figure out what works for yourself for the East coast, for Iowa. Bless them. But we don't do that. So my roses are one to one and a half to maybe two feet on stem. Wow. Wow. So what, how did this rose obsession start for you? It started when I was a baby before I even recognized it because I grew up in Southern California. My grandparents were in Los Angeles and Los Angeles had a lovely climate. Um, it didn't get as hot as it does here as it did in San Bernardino where I grew up. It was cooler. And, um, my grandfather was a botany professor and my grandmother was a teacher. And so, um, they would, well, first of all my grandfather would walk me around his garden and since he was a botanist and give me all the Latin names and I'm here, I am three, five, seven, you know, out there just soaking it all in. I loved it. I loved going on the garden walk with grandpa. And so he would show me all of his plants and give me the Latin name and the whole thing. But then they would take me to the Los Angeles exposition park rose garden. Oh, and it was very classic in its layout with the big fountain in the middle and the rose, um, rows of roses and all of that. So I grew up looking at that. So that classic design got in my brain and that's what I look to. Yeah. Now this right here doesn't look like that classic. Yeah. I was going to say this isn't quite rose or rose. Except that they're bordered by the boxwood. Oh yes. And there's a form that's contained within the form. Yes. Wow. I have to say, when I was driving up looking for your house, I immediately was like, there it is. You can't miss it. Now you have mixed in the miniatures and mostly floribundas and um, I have an old garden rose right there and fall roses and wow. Wow. So you have, well, well, everyone will see once we get to your side yard, right? Probably the most gorgeous thing about this property. Really? It's all gorgeous. But that is the best. You are not specific to one type of rose. You have miniatures, you have hybrid teas. You have them all. Do you have a favorite type though that you like the most? Um, the old garden roses were a first love of mine. Not exactly first love, but kind of early on I fell for the old garden rose. You have a special spot for that. Yeah, I do. So that's before 1900. So they're in the 1800s. And you have all your roses dated, which is very interesting. What are the dates? Um, the old garden roses are somewhere around, there's roses before 1867 and roses after. So those are two categories after 1867 and before 1860. And the afters go maybe up to 1920. Wow. So it's like a history of roses. And you fall in love with the history. Wow. That is incredible. Most of them are fresh. That is incredible. So then I also had kind of a junk pile of plants here. Oh yeah. Junk. Junk, Linda. My gardener usually does the hedges and blows the leaves off the gravel and stuff. Which is very nice. Yeah. And occasionally he'll do, um, the big thing. And so the big thing was to put the gravel in and make this a bender board. Oh yeah. Outline. Yes. I could plant what I wanted and make a, a courtyard. Right. So Linda, you'll see her house is very French. And, and see the, um, set stone that's called coining. Okay. And I knew it was Normandy French. And when Charlotte and I just went, we just came back from a French garden trip to Normandy and voila, there it was. You had to have it. Well, I already had it. Oh, you already had it. This was here. Oh my goodness. I don't know what inspired the builder. Wow. That is amazing. So it was meant to be. I know it was meant to be. Wow. This is incredible. And the scent of this is it like it's intoxicating. And then I mix in the, um, box clubs, a little blue. I mean, Fox clubs. Yes. Forget me not. Forget me not. So these forget me nots I got from my former neighbor in Martinez. Oh yes. So she had these. And once you have forget me nots, you never forget them because they always come back. And I love the Fox clubs you have around you as well. Look at this. You guys look at this. And then you can see, she does have her labels. So 1986 lady sunblaze. It's just, it's amazing. All right. Can we see this? Many of the hybridizers, um, were hybridized. Tom Carruth is our favorite. He's actually been at this house two times. No. Yes. Who does he, who does he work with? And he retired and is now the curator for the Huntington library. I was just there. That's Tom. Oh my God. I just went just last month and the roses were up for you. Oh my gosh. That place is heaven on earth. So I am in that kind of frame of mind. Wow. Uh, their rose, it wasn't blooming when I was there, but oh my gosh, I want to go back. This is an old garden rose. You can tell an old garden rose by the leaves. Okay. They are matte finish. Oh, and that's how shiny this is. Yes. This is an old garden. They are usually a different, um, lighter green. Wow. Leaves are matte finish. Interesting. Does that change the effect on, you know, like black spot or anything like that? They're, they're so healthy. Your, your garden in general is, I have not seen one aphid. I have not seen one black spot. Organic gardening. I've tried to find aphids this year. And when I did, I had to leave it because I had to leave it for the birds in the lake. You had to give them something to eat. This is just, this is insane. Do you think that it's so healthy because you, you not only have roses, you have more than you have other plants too? Like a multi plant mix. Yes. Yeah. And then it kind of just, and then the organic, so the birds are drawn, all of the beneficials are drawn. Wow. So Linda had an open house today, which I really appreciate you letting me come this evening, but she has tables out for everybody. It was a whole presentation and she does have the fertilizers that she uses. So we will see that in the backyard in just a minute for sure. Oh, plus horse manure. If you don't have anything else and you only have a horse barn nearby. Really? Yeah. I have a horse behind me. Yeah. I should go talk to them. All right. Let's go see. Yeah. I'll follow you. All right everybody. So this is the money shot here. This is what we're, this was the only plant in front. Okay. Is that a chameleon? Uh-huh. And then I have, I planted another chameleon, all the other things. All of those. It's beautiful in itself. It's beautiful. And I wanted a lot of evergreen. So it would be interesting in the winter. Yes. Oh, I love. This is a rose. It's called a single because it is single. And then can you tell me what this is again? Watsonia. I have never heard of this, but it is beautiful. It almost looks like a gladiola. This is an old garden rose. This is a species rose from China. Oh wow. It's huge. It's like a tree. Yeah. It's gorgeous. All right. Metabolites. All right. Okay. Ready? Ready. So what do you call this? In France, this would be an alley in English. It's alley. It's an alley. It's a rose alley, but let's call it an LA. Let's do that. Wow. I mean, this isn't great. When was this installed? Um, it was installed three months after I moved in. Of course it was. Why would it not be? Wow. They're eating bugs that aren't poisoned, right? Right. So they're not falling over and dying. So first of all, on your left, you're going to see a lot of old garden roses. Wow. Look at the leaves. That's so interesting. Now this one was by Tom Carruth. I needed more interest all year. Okay. And it's, and I only got this one in October and look out where it looks. Well, it's obviously very happy. It's very happy. I think the roses. No, you guys, the scent of this place is absolutely amazing. So this is one of the ones I brought. It's the only one now that I know I have to from Martinez. And this is my favorite. Okay. Because look at how the little pink buds enhance it. It's beautiful. It's like a vignette in itself. Yeah. And what would you say the smell is? Um, sort of light, light. And what is the name of this one? Fantan La Tour. Very French. So are these wire, are they, they're metal arbors that these climbing roses are on? The metal armors are arbors. And I have three that I got 20 years ago, over a hundred years ago at Target for $15. The last one I bought was $150. Inflation, right? Wow. Target doesn't have a garden thing anymore. No, they really, really don't. Oh, they did. That's yeah. And they're still standing. I mean, and you just plunk them in. You don't do any cement work. Wow. And look at the canes, the main canes on these climbing roses. And this one only blooms once a year. So this is it. So this is the special time. What is this one? Alchemist. And that's from the thirties. Oh my gosh, Linda, this is incredible. This won't bloom until next year. Okay. Well we got to see it. It's just. So I put another climbing rose with it. This is Excellence Plum Shooter. Doesn't that look cute with it? I love it. I love it. So kind of to, to pick up, pick up when Alchemist kind of calms down a little bit. Right. You do that with Clematis I noticed too. I do that. There's a Clematis here and it hasn't started. Wow. It is a small one and dark purple. Wow. And so it will go all the rest of the year. Oh my God. I want to apologize to everybody for how many times I'm going to say wow, but wow. And I have a couple on here because little Jeannie LaJoy isn't quite getting herself up and over. So I have a couple coming on behind her. And I tried to say it French like Jeannie Jean LaJoy. Yeah. No, she's from Texas. Oh, okay. Jeannie LaJoy. Jeannie LaJoy. Wait, look how cute Jeannie LaJoy is. Her little butts. Oh my goodness. She's so cute. So this is called a miniature climber. Wow. Look, there is nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. My roses don't look like this. I know. I know. It's organic. Oh my gosh. Look at this. Look at the thorns on that rose. That is a moss rose and it can get really sticky, but right up here it's soft. Oh right by the bud. And smell your finger. Okay. Oh my gosh. If you go down any farther, it's not soft. Oh my goodness. Isn't that cool? How would you describe that? I don't know. Like, um, but it's the oil. Wow. Rose oil. It's very herbal. Yes. Very herbal. Yeah. That is so interesting. And this one is supposed to sucker. Oh, it is. So it sends out new thingies a lot, but you can keep it in check. I've never even heard of a moss rose. Okay. How interesting. Thank you. It's one of the many varieties of old garden roses. Okay. I mean, you can go deep down the alley. Yes. But I like it because roses are one of those things that the deeper you dive, the more you find. And people dive differently for what their own interest is. And I love the history. Yeah. I like to dive deep into the old garden. Yeah. And I love that you love the history because it makes this garden feel so interesting. And this one, um, I bought because of the name. Um, my mother's name was Violet and this is Rhum de Violette. Oh, and it's very fragrant. Yes. Oh, that's amazing. Most old garden roses are fragrant. Yes. And this one is, it can be as practically as big as a salad plate. Look at those up there. That one's Paul Neyron. Wow. This is amazing. This is just amazing. And when I prune it, I prune it around and around and around. So I saw that type of pruning at Huntington. Okay. I saw it there and I thought, Oh my gosh, I've never seen that before. And then of course, of course, Linda, you have it here, but that's amazing. And sometimes it's pretty hard to get those little guys to go. So you're tying them every roundabout. Wow. And you're using twine, I see. Absolutely. Twine is my favorite and the English gardeners use twine. They do. It's natural. Uh, the color fades out. You don't see it. Yeah. It doesn't stick out. Right. It's not a green thing or something like that. I know there's green twine and I like the brown. Yeah. So this one, Eden, is everybody's favorite. Everybody's favorite. Everybody's favorite twining rose. It's a French rose. So the name really is Pierre de Monsaigne. I did not know that. And when you're in France, you're going to see a lot of this rose. It's so, I mean, it's my favorite. So, uh, just to be clear, we're on the East side of your house. Yes. So this gets all your morning sun. And then, you know, from after afternoon on, these guys are in shade. This is such a hot zone, zone B, hot and funny that the roses are happy to be in shade. Interesting. That's really interesting to hear. It goes against the books. We throw the books away. Right, right. But I live in zone 9b too and I'm going to copy absolutely everything you're doing here in your garden. And this also has the Isaf Saragir, which is an old garden rose. Smell that one. That one's, Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. And see, it doesn't get, it's not too climby of a rose. So it just needs a little bulk up. I love that you have layers. You have the climbers and then you have the, what do you call it? The hybrid teas. And then you have these back here. So what I think is interesting in a garden is verticality. And I think if you're in one of those park rose things, rose gardens, yeah. Yeah. Everything is here. Yes. And, and it's kind of boring. And you're just looking at one level. Yeah. And here I'm going all around to see everything. You just have one level. Wow. This is like, I can't even express how beautiful this is. I grew up in Southern California and every fifth house had, we called the name, we didn't say it French. We called it Cecil Bruno. Oh yeah. Okay. I heard of that one. Okay. So every fifth house had one. It was either eating the, um, carport or the side of the house or the garage or the shed or something. And so when I was looking into it, it's, it's a girl. It is. It's mademoiselle Cecille Brunet. I did not know that. Good to know. But I have heard of that one before. She only blooms once a year, but she blooms for a month. Yeah. So, and the rest of the time she's just nice and green and she's no trouble at all. I am so thankful that you told me about the Matt leaves. Yeah. Cause now I can look at this one and you can say, okay, is that Matt? I'm not sure. Not quite. Maybe. Yeah. Interesting. And then isn't this a fun one? Wow. What is, what's the name? So, uh, this is Phyllis Bide and she's from the thirties, 1930s and she's just fluffy. She's fluffy. That is an excellent way to describe it. And she wants to grow everywhere. So look at her over here. So you're letting her, you're letting her grow everywhere. Now she's a pain to prune. Oh, who prunes your roses? You? I do. I don't let very many people touch my roses. Those were to tomato vine, um, racks. Red, huh? You know, those red. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, my son and I sprayed them black. He put them on the wall and there they are. Wow. They're beautiful. They're beautiful. Again, it just further, you know, makes, gives you the feeling of being in France along with, I have to point out the gravel, the gravel. I brought home gravel in my pocket from France. No. So you could match it. Uh huh. You're amazing. And I did. You're amazing. I put it in a plastic bag and brought it home from several different places and it was all the same gravel. Like you are an incredible, incredible woman. I have to say. Um, back in the day when I wore high heel shoes, I could walk on their gravel very easily. Interesting. And here people put it too thick and it's like walking in beach. Yes. I've seen that before. I've felt that. This is very narrow. Wow. And it doesn't have any fabric underneath, no underlayment, nothing. Um, this started out being DG. Okay. Decomposed granite. So that was a great base. And then you just put the gravel over it. That's what I have at my house. DG and then gravel on top of it. And just a little bit of gravel, just like that. Okay. I love it. I love it. It's really, it's really beautiful. And you all will see once we get more to the courtyard. Another fragrant rose is a firefighter. Firefighter is a smoky red. Get where I'm coming from on that. Yeah. I love that. And did you smell it? Amazing. Yeah. So good. So good. Also did this strike it rich. Wow. Look at that. Blooms all the time. It doesn't wait for the new ones. See the new ones are already coming. Yeah. And the old ones are coming out. So the new ones are already coming up and the old ones are going out and they're all at the same time. My goodness. That's called a grandiflora. Okay. That's a grandiflora. Grandiflora is actually a hybrid tea. Okay. But in giant form. Wow. I have such a hard time keeping roses straight. So you could just keep saying it over and over again and hopefully I'll get it. Three yellows, four yellows in a row. And my swath goes back there. So these are three David Austin roses called Molyneux. And so when you have, you know, bunches of something, then it makes more of an impact. Absolutely. And this is definitely, and this one keeps on going. And I love that you have the purple clematis back there. I should just say clematis cause I'm American. Might as well just go with it. This one was one of several that, um, a rose grower, breeder, not breeder, a rose grower and seller around here, um, maybe 12, 15 years ago, uh, sent around a list of roses that he was going to order from France. Yeah. And override the, um, the barrier, the, oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. And so I chose 10 French roses on the list and they had to be in quarantine for two years. No. Two years. And then when we got them after two years, they were this big. Oh my gosh. So they must've sent you like little teeny tiny cuttings. They were this big. Wow. And it took forever. So out of the 10, I have six. Okay. Four hit the dust. Yeah. But, um, this was, um, a Perne du Chez rose. And I know the great, great, great, great grandson who lives in France and he is a hybridizer of the du Chez line, Fabien du Chez. And his great great grandmother hybridized this one. Now this one is so fragrant. It will knock your socks off. Oh my gosh. That's, that smells, that's, it's so hard to describe the smell on, on camera. You know, it's like, it's citrusy and classic old rose smell. Okay. There we go. There we go. There are categories and I can't distinguish between all of them. There's citrus, there's musk, there's, uh, anise, myrrh, there's myrrh. And you're like, wait, what? Oh, garden rose. Okay. I can do that. Yay. Yay. Tell me what you were saying before about, um, the amount of petals affecting how much it smells. Well, if it doesn't have very many petals and it just opens pretty open, it's not going to have fragrance. Okay. You do need those petals to trap the oil. Some varieties just have more oil that's going to smell good and some don't. And Tom, uh, actually explained to us on the genome, on the genome, when they were looking to make roses more hearty, they couldn't add in the fragrance. No. So the fifties and sixties roses, they couldn't put it back in the genome. There wasn't room. Oh my goodness. So they for, for gave or for, for forgo the scent for the heartiness. And now they're all working to put smell back. Please put smell back in because it's, we all want it. And being here in a place like this, where it smells like heaven, you realize how important scent is in a garden. It really makes a huge difference. Okay. I got out of that batch. Wow. So, um, this is Florents. Florents. So usually if a rose has a spray, which we call three or so in a thing, you take the middle one out after it dies. Okay. And then it's prettier. Now, if I had my shoes, my little cutters, I would cut it all of that, but at least get it off. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it looks good to me. So this is named after his wife Florents and I have actually been to their house. Of course you have. I know. Of course you have Linda. Of course you have. Wow. And I just, I just have to keep pointing out back here. I mean, literally every single shot I'm taking, I'm like, this could be the thumbnail. This could be the thumbnail. Wow. Look at these. Are these miniatures? That's another Fabien Duchesne. It's called a hybrid musk or, um, a flora, multiflora. Multiflora. Oh my goodness. Like, look at how many buds are on here. You're going to have, you're going to have blooms for weeks on this thing. Yeah. So I put this with another rose on the same side. This rose is a wonderful rose, the Impressionist. And I ordered that from heirloom roses in Oregon. Yes. I have a couple from heirloom. I like them. Yeah. Okay. The little multiflora or hybrid musk just makes it look pretty. You really do pack them in. Yes. And there's not a bit of powdery mildew or a black spot or anything. Wow. And this is another one of the Duchesne babies and it's the exact same color way as Eden. No. So around the front is one that opened and you can see that it's a little pink and white baby here. I'm trying to find it. Is this it? No, that's an Eden. I don't see it. Oh, nope. I see it right here. Oh my gosh. And it looks like a baby Eden. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. And it goes all the way up. Yes. There's some open ones. Wow. During the bloom season during the year, I will come along and if something is really sticking out into the walkway, I don't want it broken off by people. Right. And it's going to be impeding your walkway. So I'm constantly tying back to the arbor. Just to keep them up. Yeah. And when I prune, I say, naughty girl, you need to all be on the one side. You have to stay over there. Yeah. Wow. I prune them so they're all on one side. Interesting. And they're naughty. So during the year they come through, but then you just tie them back. But at pruning time, that's when you get it back in shape. And can you tell me about what month you prune? Is it January? Here in Sacramento, it's Christmas to Valentine's day. Okay. I love it. I usually think of January is when I need to prune. Right. But I have 17 roses and you have 317 roses. So you need a little bit longer time than I did. If you were to take just the days out of that month and a half, it takes 14 days. No, no. You're amazing. The orange section. So if you notice, we've come from the yellow sloth. Yeah. And it goes way back there. Yep. And then we went into pinks and deep pinks. And now we're going to orangey. Oh my gosh. So see all the oranges. Wow. Wow. Oh my goodness. Guess which one? Oh no, you would guess. One of these is, um, Chihuly and Tom Caruso, uh, Breda. No. Chihuly the glass? The glass. So look at that one, how it really looks like Chihuly. It does. Oh my gosh. I love Chihuly. It's one of my favorites. What is this called? This one? Oh, it's called Chihuly. Of course it is. It should be called Chihuly. That is stunning. That is absolutely stunning. And then this muted orange right next to it. And that is, I believe that's a Christian Bedard, which is his mentee. The one who took over. Wow. And it's a pumpkin patch. Of course. Now this one is a fabulous rose. This got broken off. Okay. You didn't get rid of it. This is an English rose, but not David Alston. It's Harkness. Oh. And it's so fabulous. It's called Easy Does It. Wow. And it really is. Look at how perfect this rose is. So when Charlotte and I went on our English garden tour with Garden Gate Magazine. Yeah. And we went to one of the rose flower, flower shows like Chelsea. Only it was the RHS. Anyway, we walked into the tent and right there at the beginning was the Harkness display and he had this little bitty English, it was about this big. And this really cute guy was the sales rep. And so I whipped up my camera. I had taken a picture of the day before of this. And it was in full bloom because that was in early July. And he said, Oh yeah. Okay. You must be in California. He knew immediately. So we talked differences in the height of planting. Wow. You know, in cold climates you put the bud union down in the ground and here we put it above the ground. Yes. I love that you're saying all of this because I have heard people say these things to me and I can say it as if it's a universal truth, right? It is not universal. It is not. It is your climate. Yes. You have to figure it out based on your climate and it's, it's just different. And you can see, you obviously know what you're talking about. I'll go by what you say, Linda. Now, what is this? I, I looks like a David Austin and it isn't, it's called heaven on earth. Um, actually called, I think it's called a hybrid tea. Wow. The cups on these, I mean, you could drink a glass of wine out of this. It's so beautiful. And then everybody doesn't know. Nobody knows that's a rose. This one looks like apple blossom. It does. And it's so easy to grow. You do nothing to it. What is it called? Why the rose? Of course it is. I happened to have been in music, man. I was the librarian. So light a rose. So you had to have one. You had to have one. Oh my gosh. I love it. Can we show your woodland garden? My garden. Um, I had a big tree there that died and eventually saw replaced with a different tree. And so this was going to be shady. And so that's why I planted the Italian cypress. Oh yeah. But what I, what I don't like about Italian cypress in a small garden is that they grow to the moon. They grow huge, 60 feet tall. Right. And so I have my gardener just keep them tall. I think that looks amazing. And that just further emphasized the European nature. Classic, classic, um, formal. Yeah. So what I like, and actually I used it in my second grade teaching is you put up the structure and then you have freedom in the middle. I love that. I love that. I heard that about raising a child, give them a frame and then they can do what they want within the frame. I do the frame and then we're kind of, we can kind of go off on a, and then you can do whatever you want and all the other areas which you have done. Oh, this is just absolutely stunning. Do you mind showing us your courtyard real quick? I want to give it, I want to give it, let's do, cause it's just as beautiful as your rose garden. So you can see she has the tables out from her open house and look, okay, so this is your, and of course in France you have, and parterre refers to the geometric shapes. These guys here. What's in the middle? What is that? So gara, I put gara in the very middle. Then I have a rose in each one and I wanted to get all white and the nursery didn't have all white. So then I said, do you have red? And they did. Um, they're not, they don't grow the same. I have the whites and the red. I think it's beautiful. And then is this a lemon or a lime? Yep, I do. Right down there. Oh, it is just stunning. And then of course more roses. These are your standards. Oh my gosh, Linda. Look at this. I mean this, wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. And then the pergola went in, in 2012. Wow. And my brother-in-law made the pergola and then we had an iron maker in Sacramento do, and um, my sister, the designer, had done the dimensions and we wanted it rounded like that. It's incredible. And then the focal point, see, I have an axis right to the kitchen. And her kitchen is stunning by the way. And then this. So that gives you the axis. And then the side axis is more about balance. So the parterres are balanced with the olive logs. Oh my gosh. Okay. I'm trying to, I'm trying to move the camera slow. I'm so sorry, everybody. Here's the parterre and there's the Ale over there. And then you come, you have the pergola with, what are these grapes and wisteria? Wisteria is the main one. And then three grapes and a little bit. Oh my gosh. And then you come over here to the olives. What did you call this? Olive lounge. The olive lounge. And when they all get their leaves back, hopefully. Yeah. Then it will be shady. Is this not the most beautiful thing? Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. My goodness. Linda. My little bit of France. This, I mean, it feels like we could be in France right now. This is, this is just heaven. You should be so proud of yourself. I cannot believe how amazing this is. Oh, can we show off the fertilizers? I don't want to forget about that. Let's do the fertilizers. Look at this. So when Linda had the open house, she laid out the fertilizers that she uses. I, um, I went all organic around, um, 2010 or 2012 right in there. And it took about a year or two for the garden to settle in, to being all organic. I was heavy on the chemicals. I was spraying for, uh, rust for powdery mildew, for, um, pests for aphids. And you get into that and you have to spray like every week or every week and you're just going nuts and you have to fill the sprayer and do all of that stuff. And it just keeps coming back, you know, and then you think about the environment and you're going, you know, something's not right here. And so why don't we just kill all the chemicals and go with organic? And I'd already gone with horse manure, which is fabulous on roses. I put that in in January and the end of August, but then I only use organic fertilizers. This is my favorite spray. And I might do this once a month in the growing season and mix up maxicrop and fish emulsion. Okay. This is the cheapest one at Green Acres. Okay. And then you put that in the sprayer. Do you spray the foliage or do you just spray? You just spray everything. And um, I love to drench my roses with the hose water and drench from the top and the leaves and that foliage. Isn't that funny? People, people in the South, people in Ohio and people in the South are, throw the book away. They are. In California we throw the book away. And so I only put like this much of those two in there. Interesting. Okay. Hardly use any of it. Okay. And I have to do this about two fillings for the garden, but it'll do the garden. Wow. Yeah. And you do it about once a month during the growing season. And then what about, I see you've got. And this really does the foliage. Okay. And if you have healthy foliage, you have healthy roses. Absolutely. And you can see, literally not one black spot on any of your roses. I'm, I'm shocked. I'm impressed. And then here, these are a couple of my favorite fertilizers to throw on the ground. Okay. And how often do you do these? Uh, once a month in the growing season. Wow. Okay. I have a question. Feel free to say no. Can I copy this and put it in the description or a link for people? Somebody does a 10th of that. They're probably going to do more than they have done. Okay. I have, so it's okay to do just a bit of it. It's two pages. No, it's three pages guys. Linda, a huge, huge. Thank you. You are so amazing. I would love to come back and pick your brain more, but I'm sure you're exhausted from your open house. You are just an amazing woman. And like, I just cannot believe what an amazing gardener you are. So a huge thank you. And I hope you all enjoyed this as much as I did. And I hope you all have a chance to get in your garden today. It was so fun having you.