The Story of Heirloom Roses

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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11 years ago, Ben and his wife, Kara purchased Heirloom Roses from the former owners. Before that Ben was an executive in an electronics company. Since this lifestyle change, Ben and his family have truly enjoyed working for themselves with gorgeous roses. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4buSEMZ Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3QECQiM Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4bydmMc EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3WEWHSP Learn More: How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Old Garden RosesConnect With Ben Hanna:Ben Hanna is the President and Owner of Heirloom Roses in St. Paul, Oregon, the premier nursery for own-root roses shipped directly to customers in the US and Canada. Ben’s love of roses goes back to his grandparents’ garden, and he even proposed to his wife, Kara, at the Portland International Rose Garden. Constantly expanding the company and improving systems and procedures, Ben keeps the customer’s experience and gardening success in mind. Heirloom Roses Shop Instagram Facebook YouTube Pinterest Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Over the years I have slowly started growing more flowers and surprisingly even to myself I have gotten into roses
0:20.4	Which is why I'm very excited because this week we have Ben Hanna on the show.
0:24.4	He's the president and owner of Airloom Roses in St. Paul, Oregon, which really is the
0:29.6	Premier Nursery for Owner Roses shipped directly to you. We've been working with
0:34.8	Airland Roses for two years now so I've got a pretty good selection in my
0:38.6	garden. This is a sponsored week of podcasts with Ben, but we're all about Rose Growing. So Ben, it's super
0:46.0	cool to have you on the show. If you're watching the video version of this podcast on
0:49.9	YouTube at The Beat, you can see Ben's background. It's the most epic one I've ever seen
0:54.0	he's in a rose greenhouse right now. So great to have you on, man.
0:57.0	Hey, thank you. I'm actually standing here and this greenhouse is full of evaluation roses.
1:02.0	So there are new roses that we're bringing into
1:03.7	the nursery. They're from hybridizers all over the world and it's a beautiful place to be. There's
1:08.5	great blooms in here and full-size plants. It's a pretty epic place to be on a morning.
1:14.0	It really is like it's so good looking. I thought it was a custom
1:17.3	Zoom background or something like that. But it's not. It's real. So why don't we start
1:21.6	with with your guy guys story? I mean
1:23.0	Erloom roses I think I have seven of your guys roses in the garden right now and
1:28.2	then I have probably about another four or five from from other sources as I kind of first got into roses. But how did you guys get
1:36.4	into roses? Because it's a really cool company that you guys run.
1:39.4	Yeah, thank you. So my wife and I have been married over 27 years.
1:42.6	We're kind of lifelong gardeners.
1:44.5	We love to garden.
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