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The Alexandra Farms homepage, showing a close-up of a blush garden rose behind the words From our farm to your hands.
News from the Farm · August 26, 2026

A New Digital Home for the World of Alexandra Farms

Our new website brings the farm, the varieties, the care guides and the people together in one place. A tour of what's changed.

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Cream and apricot Fatima Gardens garden roses in a glass vase, beside a red ribbon and an entry card from the SAF competition.
News from the Farm · August 24, 2026

Fatima Gardens Earns Red Ribbon at SAF’s 2026 Outstanding Varieties Competition

Our new Dutch garden rose took a Red Ribbon in the Cut Garden Rose category at the Society of American Florists’ 2026 competition.
A floral designer smiling, holding a large armful of pale pink garden roses.
News from the Farm · March 24, 2026

A Garden Rose in Her Honor: The Dedication of Princess Hitomi

Princess Hitomi is named for designer and educator Hitomi Gilliam, dedicated at the farm in March among the garden roses that carry her name.
Three people seated on a white sofa in front of a wall of pink and cream garden roses at IFTF.
News from the Farm · November 25, 2025

Photo Report: Alexandra Farms Displays Garden Roses at IFTF 2025

Our largest exhibit yet at the trade fair in the Netherlands: 75 garden rose varieties, turned into an indoor garden by Alina Neacsa and her team.
Farm workers walking through the greenhouse rows at Alexandra Farms
News from the Farm · October 20, 2025

Proflora 2025: Celebrating Colombian Floriculture with Friends and Partners

More than 70 products at Proflora in Bogota, designs by Holly Heider Chapple, Gabrielle Wile and Galina Serebriakova, and our twentieth anniversary.
People on stage at the Proflora awards holding a winner's ribbon, beside a Flowers of Colombia sign.
News from the Farm · October 13, 2025

Alexandra Farms’ Hellebores Take First Place, New Garden Rose Variety Places Second at Proflora’s Outstanding Variety Competition

Two honors at Proflora: first place in New Products for our Magnificent Bells hellebores, and second for the garden rose Vicky Gardens.
A ploughed field under a grey sky, with the farm's greenhouses along the far edge.
News from the Farm · October 6, 2025

20 Years at Alexandra Farms: From Humble Roots to a World in Full Bloom

Two hectares near Bogota, fifteen people, and a greenhouse of wood and plastic. Twenty years from an experiment to the collection we grow now.
A farm worker in a wide-brimmed hat and Alexandra Farms uniform standing among garden rose plants, holding a rake.
News from the Farm · August 19, 2025

Women on the Farm: Growth and Opportunity in an Evolving Industry at Alexandra Farms

Before the flower farms, women here worked at home. What six decades of that industry changed on the savannah, and what it looks like at our farm.
Two panels side by side: deep red garden roses on the left, coral and peach garden roses on the right.
News from the Farm · August 12, 2025

Two Alexandra Farms Garden Rose Varieties Earn Ribbons at SAF’s 2025 Outstanding Varieties Competition

Two ribbons in the Cut Garden Rose category at the Society of American Florists convention in Phoenix, with a Blue Ribbon for Garden Romance.
A large group posed together indoors, many holding bouquets of garden roses.
News from the Farm · July 28, 2025

Garden Rose Grower Welcomes ‘Friends of the Farm’ to Bogotá

The 2024 contest winners came to Bogota in March: the dahlia greenhouse, a session on composting, and the garden rose houses.
The cover of a children's book, Cuentos de la tortuga Felicia, illustrated with cartoon animals.
News from the Farm · June 4, 2025

Children’s Reading Activity Results in Joyful Family Day for Employees of Alexandra Farms

Our HR team bought fifty copies of a Colombian book of fables for the children of farmworkers, then asked them to draw a comic strip about it.
An Alexandra Farms employee smiling outdoors, in a white embroidered blouse.
News from the Farm · March 4, 2025

Alexandra Farms Employee Highlighted in International Women’s Day Feature

Florists’ Review named our biologist Pilar Buitrago among its Remarkable Women in Floristry. She talks about botanical research and the farm.
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