01/08/2025
A "Hello" to those new to Owl Grove Roses.
I'm Lisa, a fourth generation horticulturalist that started my cut-flower farm encore business 6 years ago in Brighton, Ontario.
This all started when I was trying to source heritage roses and flowers to match the age of the farmhouse for both educational and conservation purposes and to pay homage to my late father.
Sourcing historical floriculture can be a challenge when the market is focused on the new, fancy or unusual qualities of plants.
Roses have this legacy stigma of being hard to grow and demanding diva status treatment, relegating them to weddings, proms and special occasions.
I consider joy and beauty to be an everyday celebration, so my mission was to make roses, fragrant, healthy and gorgeous roses, available for home sanctuaries and "just because" bouquets.
By giving you the proven planting guides for success with roses for our planting zone, I want everyone to enjoy the satisfaction of growing bountiful flowers.
As an ambassador to a historical property and being raised environmentally conscientious, my farm is pesticide and chemical-free and water restricted.
The growing spaces are minimal till (mainly to remove harmful materials buried on an old farm) and in raised beds to control weeds and minimally impact the healthy soil microbes.
Our soil is a mix of topsoil/duck manure (no grazing animal products) compost and bark findings and any supplementation is from the kitchen as a consumable.
The farm is proudly certified as a wildlife habitat and pollinator supporter that shares the space with 3 sides of wetland, a naturalized meadow, a protected conservation forest and now actively planting threatened or endangered trees onto the property.
I diligently curate the rose varieties a year in advance to provide the widest selection of roses available in Northumberland County.
For 2025, the farm will see over 500 bare root roses inspected and hand-potted for your shopping experience.
I keep my carbon impact as small as possible by not using floral foam or plastics in my bouquets and use up-cycled glass, porcelain or ceramics as arrangement containers.
My bouquet materials are all grown on site and harvested early in the morning for the freshest arrangements, so that means ever-changing flowers grown in the field to mark the cycles of seasons.
Bouquets can be ordered with 48 hours notice and created to your budget by request, by subscription CSA packages, at the farmstand or at the Codrington Farmers' Market on Sundays 10-1 from late May to October.
I can arrange DIY buckets for special events.
I offer numerous workshop events throughout the season, from watercolour and luncheon afternoons, to yoga at golden hour, wine tastings, bouquet making, plein air for sketching, painting and photography, poetry open mic and garden care/installation/planning discussions.
I cut my teeth in this business as a landscape restoration consultant for heritage properties and for DIY homeowners starting out.
I have worked for several well-respected garden centres and have a fine arts education as well as my herbalist certification and a thanatology certification that I resource for wellness/healing gardens and mentored children in a horticultural club in the public school system.
(Plus a bunch of other things from sommelier training, historical archivist and antique researcher, to dance studio owner and professional dancer, published writer to costume/set designer.
If it has any faction of "creating", I'm on-board.)
As a seed to vase, root to garden farm, I also offer potted lilies as a fundraising endeavour for Parry's Paws and Claws non-profit organization, a noble and dedicated one-woman powerhouse that assists animal rescues with materials, supplies, funding and education.
If you want to add spectacular lilies to your garden and support animal rescue swing on by in May or pre-order by email and I can send you the varieties being offered in 2025.
From Our Farm to Your Arms, Naturally is my mission statement and I humbly thank you for supporting my small, local business.
With gratitude,
Lisa
Romantic heritage & classic roses 
