Last week our team had the incredible opportunity to travel to Bogotá, Colombia. We flew there to see our favorite rose grower Alexandra Farms. This farm specifically focuses on growing garden roses.

If you follow my studio, you know I am the queen of the garden roses. Standard roses simply don’t catch my eye like the garden roses do. I have long since dreamed of going to this farm. In fact, I set my sites on this trip long before I started teaching abroad. Proving some things are definitely worth the wait.

What I found in Bogotá absolutely fills my heart. I have always known I loved these roses, but I didn’t know how much I would love the people behind them. Owner Joey Azout and his entire team are the most amazing and caring people. Their spirit and passion for these roses totally matches my intense love for all things garden roses. I also want to send a big shout out to Teresa Schaefer for being the best support system and marketing director Alexandra Farms could ever have.

We started our journey in the trial gardens. Here we got to pick our favorite roses. All of the roses we chose were taken to a table. As a team, we discussed the potential of each rose. This was super exciting to be a part of.

The next stop is designing, we had an amazing time creating for creation’s sake. We were literally moaning and crying with delight over the amazing flowers we were offered to design with.

If you would like to see more from this trip check out my IGTV and see full stories from our time at Alexandra Roses.