Roses in Thyme



    Dear Loyal Customers and Friends,

           We’ve made the difficult decision to no longer sell plants as a major
    business focus. We’ve had modest expectations for our rose business. While
    it’s exceeded them, it’s never provided enough extra revenue to hire help
    with the greenhouse, grounds and gardens. The last years have found us
    actively involved almost daily in the lives of grandsons 3 and 9 months.
    We can only stretch our time and energy so far.The grandkids have thrived,
    but the roses and gardens have suffered.

           Times are tough for old roses. Our main supplier is drastically cutting
    back the number of varieties they offer, in turn, limiting us. Vintage Gardens
    is winding down its operation. Many other small nurseries have cut back the
    varieties they offer, trying to focus on the best sellers, often newer varieties.
    I feel we need to become an ark of sorts, to grow and protect the roses whose
    numbers are few and commercial sources scarce. I’d like the time to work at
    careful record keeping and labeling, to grow the scarcest roses in more than
    one spot to ensure their survival. We’ll continue rose hunting, searching out
    those lost treasures & seeing they live on. And we’ll keep our nursery license
    and occasionally have roses for sale at the farm. We just won’t be growing
    large numbers of grafted plants or selling at outside sales.

    For roses, we suggest
    Pickering Nurseries:
    Rouge Valley Roses
    Roses Unlimited

    In the next month, I plan to post annotated lists of what I consider the best
    of the best old roses  I’m always glad to talk about a rose for a particular
    place or help find a source for something you want. Maybe this year we’ll be
    able to have that open house I’ve been hoping for. We’ll let you know.

                              Still dreaming of June,  Ruth & Jack Flounders



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Roses in Thyme - Sculps Hill Herbs
423 Tunnel Rd
Auburn PA 17922

Jack & Ruth Flounders

ROSES in THYME
SCULPS HILL HERBS

    I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
    Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
                                                                 With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine...        A Midsummer Night's Dream