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An Unconventional Valentine’s Day Color Palette
Red will always have its place. This year we looked for something layered and surprising instead, in a palette for a less expected Valentine's Day.

Breathtaking Timelapse Videos Illustrate the Life of a Fresh-Cut Garden Rose
Photographer Timin Wang has spent three years filming our garden roses as they open. An interview about patience, equipment and what the camera sees.

Wedding Roses & Garden Shrubs: The Difference
David Austin breeds two very different things. One is grown for the garden, the other under cover for the vase. Which is which, and why it matters.

Designer Spotlight: Design, passion and garden roses combine to create the ultimate partnership with Galina Serebriakova
Galina Serebriakova was a coffee specialist until a friend pointed out how she photographed flowers. She now owns GALA in Bogota.

Ivory Wedding Inspiration with David Austin Wedding Roses
Ivory is a deliberate choice. Patience, Leonora and the rest, and how a monochrome palette holds a whole day together.

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.

A Fresh and Playful Welcome Dinner in Provence
A welcome dinner does not have to echo the wedding day. A Provence celebration that uses the first evening to set a different tone entirely.

Explore ‘Crimson Nocturne: A Pulse Deep Within’
Thursd named Crimson Nocturne its color of the year for 2026. Three designs built on the palette, in garden roses and dahlias.

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.

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.

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.

Behind the Scenes at Alexandra Farms: A Conversation with Jose R. Azout and Alina Neacsa
What it takes to grow a garden rose that survives a flight and still opens well. Joey Azout and Alina Neacsa on the years behind each variety.