Growing Wonder: A Flower Farmer's Guide to Roses

Do you dream of possessing a magical rose garden or a thriving flower farm? Whether you long to fill your own acreage with roses or consider yourself more of a weekend gardener, Menagerie Farm & Flower's Felicia Alvarez can help make your love affair with roses a joyous and rewarding experience. With her engaging and encouraging advice, Alvarez assures readers that they can grow beautiful roses successfully. Whatever your level of passion, with her twenty years of farming experience Felicia will guide you with sound advice and detailed horticultural knowledge.

Nestled at the base of the Sutter Buttes, in the heart of the Sacramento Valley, Felicia Alvarez founded Menagerie Farm & Flower specializing in garden roses, specialty flowers, French prunes, assorted stone fruits, nuts, and rice on over 100 acres of beautiful California farmland. She is a third-generation farmer and entrepreneur who has been farming for over two decades.

Her favorite memories as a child were tending to her grandmother’s farm garden filled with fragrant garden roses. Her love of flowers made her an avid gardener and in 2014 an accidental rose farmer. Through her specialty farm nursery Felicia hand selects unique bare root rose plants and potted garden roses to share seasonally with garden lovers across the United States.