Taken June 8th 2023 at Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver BC - a tour of the rose garden and quick shots of the sunken garden too. If you find these videos useful, here are a few things you can do to help us out: Send a tip: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fvrosefarm Have a look at our Amazon shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fraservalleyrosefarm Drop us a "Like" on our Facebook business page: https://www.facebook.com/FraserValleyRoseFarm/ Leave a review of our farm on Google: https://g.page/r/Cfi8qXv8QReZEBE/review For shareable articles on roses and gardening: https://www.fraservalleyrosefarm.com/articles-on-roses-and-gardening/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoU3QF796Bg

In this video I'll share what I learned about watering plants in pots & containers as a professional grower. Here's the full story of the watering "contest": The owner of the nursery where I worked (John) had bought a watering tunnel, which did pretty much what you saw in the first pot. It attached to the end of the conveyor at shipping, and absolutely drenched the plants before we were to load them on racks. You saw how much water runs off the pot after the quick soaking. My guys on the load dock were pretty irritated by the "water park" this was creating in the loading area. Everyone was going home soaked! The owner (who BTW is a great guy!) had 3 reasons for insisting on this: 1) he had paid for the watering tunnel, and wanted to see it used, 2) he thought it was the best solution, and 3) he didn't have to lift the pots on the loading dock! The hero of this story is Paula, who was my boss at the time. If she thought the watering tunnel was doing a great job, I'm sure she would have gone along with the owner. What she saw was that it was leaving loads of water splashing all over the load dock, but she was still getting complaints from customers about dry plants. So she challenged John to a contest. She asked him to prepare a couple of flats his way (through the watering tunnel) and also prepared a couple of flats her way (by watering the plants several times while still on trailers before labelling). She made good an sure that all pots were dry at the beginning of the trial. A day later, they went back and checked the pots. John scratched his head at the results, but was gracious enough to remove that wretched watering tunnel the following day. Morals of the story: 1) Don't be afraid to challenge upwards when you can back it up 2) Don't bet against the shipping manager when it comes to shipping plants! If you find these videos useful, here are a few things you can do to help us out: Send a tip: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fvrosefarm Have a look at our Amazon shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fraservalleyrosefarm Drop us a "Like" on our Facebook business page: https://www.facebook.com/FraserValleyRoseFarm/ Leave a review of our farm on Google: https://g.page/r/Cfi8qXv8QReZEBE/review ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZUDi_dbn8

It's time to start plant propagation for the season, and I usually start with my seed varieties (perennials mainly) in mid January. This year we put together a DIY version of a seed germination chamber to help sprout our seeds quickly and consistently. The overall setup is really simple: temperatures around 25C/77F and consistent high humidity. So far, the results have been great: some varieties of seed have been coming up within 5 days or so. I'll talk about the temperature/humidity controller I used for the project and also some alternate methods. If you find these videos useful, here are a few things you can do to help us out: Send a tip: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fvrosefarm Have a look at our Amazon shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fraservalleyrosefarm Follow our farm on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fraservalleyrosefarm Or Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FraserValleyRoseFarm ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTqUVI275oc

If you're looking for places to visit and activities along the north Fraser Valley, here are a few suggestions! I'll take you on a quick trip from Bridal Falls on the Chilliwack side over to Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs, Kilby & the Sandpiper Resort (at Harrison Mills), Nicomen Island, Cascade Falls, Shangrila Farm, Westmister Abbey (not the famous one!) and finally Hayward Lake and the Powerhouse at Stave Falls. This trip follows the Lougheed Highway (Hwy 7) - a great alternative to Hwy 1 when returning from BC's interior. This accompanies my web page on local sites of interests available here: https://www.fraservalleyrosefarm.com/daytrips-and-activities-near-nicomen-island/ As you'll see, this is a little different than my regular gardening and horticulture topic videos. What can I say? We've got a farm to run, and encouraging visitors is a part of that effort. If you find these videos useful, here are a few things you can do to help us out: Send a tip: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fvrosefarm Have a look at our Amazon shop: https://www.amazon.com/shop/fraservalleyrosefarm Drop us a "Like" on our Facebook business page: https://www.facebook.com/FraserValleyRoseFarm/ Leave a review of our farm on Google: https://g.page/r/Cfi8qXv8QReZEBE/review Music: "Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photo Credits: Agassiz Tulips by GoToVan CC BY 2.0 Agassiz Mountain by Thats Just Great CC BY-SA 4.0 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbXAswmD84