Horticulture

Coming Up Roses

started Corn Hill Nursery in the 1980s, with an interest in grafting. He began with apples, but later shifted to roses. (The New Brunswick mail-order and walk-in nursery also offers a full range of trees and shrubs, hybrid, and he soon found himself drawn to old roses. “They were much hardier than I thought, and easier,” he recalls. “I got hooked!” He started collecting cultivars, of which he now has more than 200.

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