From that first planting of 26 OGR's, her garden has expanded to over 400 varieties of both OGR's and modern roses.  She has become an ARS (American Rose Society) horticultural judge and is in demand as an expert OGR judge.  She has given tours of her garden and lectures on both OGR's and also organic rose growing.  She has also written articles published by several gardening magazines on OGR's and organic gardening, and does landscape consulting for people wishing to plant OGR's.

She stresses that her garden is a "viewing" garden; nothing fancy, no elaborate landscaping, just roses everywhere there is room for them.  She advocates the "lazy gardener" way of gardening-enjoy more, work less.  And because her roses have been grown totally organically since 1990, she has weeded out the truly poor doers that require too much spraying to live, and has no fears about bringing hospital patients her roses, or using the roses in cooking.  Bees, birds, lizards, spiders and ladybugs abound in her garden; only the pure rose scent perfumes the air, no chemical smells to disrupt the pure essences of Rosa damascena bifera or "Sombreuil".  She invites visitors to stick their noses in every flower, to take cuttings from the non-patent varieties, and encourages the neighbourhood kids to cut blooms to take home and to school.

Below you will find links to "rosy" sites, the most important being the American Rose Society site.  You will also find a link to her OGR page that lists the OGR's she grows and how they perform in hot, dry, inland Southern California desert areas like her Poway location.