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Imported and Planted
We imported and planted a Bulgarian variety of Damask roses and set up steam distillation units for essence extraction. Our owners, Cecile & Jerry, are passionate about keeping all things as natural as possible and use fertilization such as free range goose pond effluent, free range cattle manure and vermi-compost.
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Our Dedicated Staff
Not only do we take care of and love each and every staff member, we also take pride in the fact that they have years of experience and deliver the best possible products.
Our Damask Roses imported from Holland
- Our roses arrived Oct 2010 in their boxes
- Bulgarian Damask Rose variety
Roses are not grafted but on their own roots
- We planted the roses according to the Moonlight Calendar.
- 5000 roses in 5 days (5 people and friends came to help for a day)
Planting 5000 roses
- Layout
- 8 Headers
- Each Header has 5 rows
- No tunnels/ No netting
- Low Pressure Drip irrigation
- Soil Preparation
- Staff dug the holes before hand
- Vermi – compost with each rose
2011 to 2012
2019 to 2022
Nutrition and water
- Goose pond system
- We have 27 Geese
- Gravity feed their effluent to the roses via drip irrigation
- The pond is refilled every Mon to Thursday
Mulch
- Weeds our biggest challenge – We do not use herbicides
- Mulch with crude compost
- Cover crop along with manually cutting the weeds
Compost
- Compost heaps from
- Rose cuttings
- Bales and cow dung
- Poplar shoots and leaves
- Watering with microbes and vermi-solution
Pest control
- Microorganism/ nutrition
- No chemicals because we love you to enjoy our rose products
Flowering and harvesting
- The Roses Flower Season is Sept- Nov
- Frost damage to new buds – challenge.
- Flower duration – approx. 6 weeks.
- Harvesting process
- One flower weighs 2 grams.
- On a busy day we pick from 6 to 9 in the morning 20kg of rose petals approximately 10 000 roses are picked by hand.
- Have to pick before it gets too hot before the roses release their top notes.
- Cleaned and processed the same morning.
Processing
- Remove pollen, green leaves, spiders and other insects that found their way into the bags
- Fill the stills with rose petals and water
- Heat up the units with gas burners
- Hydro – distillation process
- Cool down the stills
- Remove the petals
- Clean stills for the next batch
