Sooner or later every gardener comes around to roses. It may be the beauty of the flowers, the lure of their perfume, their long, romantic history, or perhaps a combination of all three that have made roses so much admired and desired. My introduction to them came with the purchase of an old house in Vancouver with a beautiful cottage garden full of roses. As I learned to care for these modern long-blooming roses, I also learned about the roses they had supplanted, which flowered for a much shorter period but in magnificent profusion and these exquisite, ephemeral flowers became my passion. On my new website you will find the books I've written and the roses I grow, as well as some photographs of the garden. Roses listed in my catalogue there are for sale at Free Spirit Nursery, 20405 32nd Avenue, Langley (personal shopping only). I also speak on roses and other gardening subjects to various organizations.