Today I wanted to take some time to share a NEW farm update for the 2024 season.
It’s been a dream of mine to offer more than just cut flowers on the farm. For me, it’s growing that has always captivated my heart, not designing or marketing our beautiful–yet highly perishable–cut flower stems.
I wish I had a true greenhouse, to be honest. My high tunnel structures work great to extend the season, but the temperatures remain at or below freezing on extremely cold nights, which prevents me from being able to sell many plant starts in the Spring. I have tried to grow plant starts, but it is a lot of work to shuffle the plants inside and outside and have them ready for early May.
Consistently, my customers (possibly, you!) have asked about plant starts, perennials, and even shrubs. It seems that most people are excited about growing, too. Not that cut flowers aren’t beautiful and captivating! I would argue that a fresh, local cut flower bouquet brings the biggest rush of joy, but the feeling is fleeting.
Last year, we sold a few bare root roses. Those that were left over we potted up and sold mostly around Mother’s Day, with a few lingering into June. Happily, all roses went off to new homes (even the ones I wanted to keep for myself).
With that being said, we decided:
Roses will be back for 2024! Shipping will begin for bare root roses in March.
The rose varieties we will have in stock:
Below is a list of the rose varieties we chose to offer. I’ve selected these rose varieties through meticulous research and my own experience.
In the meantime, we are also curating a collection of antique and out-of-patent roses that we will be propagating from. That’s a few years down the road, however.
This list of varieties may grow if I feel like there is enough interest. For now, I think it is a good starting point. We have old and new varieties, climbers, shrubs, high scent, disease resistance, and the list of characteristics goes on.
2024 Rose Varieties offered by Sievers Blumen Farm:
- Parfuma Bliss
- Parfuma Earth Angel
- Princess Charlene de Monaco
- Hot Cocoa
- Easy Does It
- Just Joey
- Rouge Royale
- Arborose Laguna
- Carefree Wonder
- Crimson Sky
- Dee-Lish
- Eden Climber
- Collette
- Shining Moment
- Sunbelt Plum Perfect
- Sunbelt Crazy Love
- Mother of Pearl
- Bonica
- Sweet Mademoiselle
- Eleganza Sunny Sky
- Adobe Sunrise
- Sitting Pretty
- Traviata Pink
- Top Cream
- Arborose Quicksilver
- Sunbelt Tupelo Honey
- Enchanted Peace
Using HelpMeFind to Research Rose Varieties
I highly suggest using the website helpmefind.com when you decide to choose a rose for your garden.
The easiest way to use HelpMeFind is by googling the rose variety name with “help me find”.
The first page usually has all of the basic information about the rose, like the hardiness, growth habit, breeder, year introduced, additional names, and more.
After reading through the first page, you can flip through the member photos or member comments section to get a good feel for how the rose looks and acts in different climates and for different gardeners. The comments section is extremely valuable. An
For example, a few roses I’ve been interested in are listed as being hardy only to Zone 7. I am in Zone 6. BUT after reading the comments section, I’ve discovered that many growers in Zone 5 have successfully grown some of these roses. It is encouraging to me to know other gardeners’ experiences!
I highly recommend using HelpMeFind.com to get a feel of whether the rose you’ve selected for your garden is right for you.
The Sievers Blumen Farm Collection of Roses
Feel confident that I’ve taken a lot of the guess work out of deciding which rose is right for you! There are literally thousands available throughout the world.
Most of the roses I’ve selected because they grow incredibly well in my garden, they’ve been highly recommended on podcasts about plants and rose-growing, or they are promoted in various rose care books or landscaping books.
For example, ‘Bonica’ is a landscape rose that was highly recommended in a Midwest landscaping book of mine. To me, that suggests that it will perform well. When I researched the rose on HelpMeFind, I also read a lot of positive comments by other growers.
So ‘Bonica’ is on the list!
‘Parfuma Bliss’ is a rose that performs extremely well here at Sievers Blumen Farm! So it’s one we wanted to include in our lineup.
Bliss is also a result of crosses made by the infamous Kordes family. Kordes roses are known for their vitality and disease resistance!
Bliss is a rose that was recommended by many other growers, including Kimberley Dean, The Rose Geek, on YouTube. She mentions her love of this rose in an episode of The Rose Chat Podcast. At the end of the episode she discusses other varieties that perform well for her, like ‘Plum Perfect’ (which is on our list!).
Join us for bare root rose season!
Whether you’re local or somewhere across the U.S., you can sign up for our rose list to be notified when pre-orders are live for 2024 (and beyond).
We’ll also make sure to share some particularly rosy information with you so you can stay up to date on new varieties, how to care for your roses, and more.
Interested in roses for your garden? Join us below:
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