SEPTEMBER 27, Sunday 10-5 ('Perfume Launch' Events at 10 & 2)
 OPEN GARDEN &  2009's PERFUME 'LAUNCH' PARTY”

Every spring we harvest petals from 800 Bulgarian, Persian and French rose bushes that we grow solely for the purpose of producing our perfume and Rose Water - and to the best of our knowledge, we're the only company in California handcrafting these pure, natural products.

Each bottle of perfume requires the petals of 500 roses.  When distilled in our prohibition-era copper still, a single batch yields only two to three drops of precious rose oil -- and only eight ounces of our elegant Rose Water.  The rose oil is aged from May until September to allow its complex scents to fully evolve.  Production is strictly limited to 250 bottles of perfume and 600 bottles of Rose Water.  This is the very first day they are available for purchase!

JOIN US at 10 am & 2 pm

Enjoy our lovely maidens, who will offer aromatic samples to our guests, as well as complimentary glasses of Rose Sparkler, a blend of Rose Water and non-alcoholic Champagne.

Visit Michael's Museum of Purse Atomizers, featuring rare and beautiful atomizers from the 1890s to the 1960s.  See examples or art nouveau, art deco and modern.  Also are famous atomizer designers, such as DeVilbiss, Marcel Franck, Ann Upton, etc are included.

GARDEN AND NURSERY OPEN FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT 10 am - 5 pm

Stroll through our beautiful garden and its collection of 650 rose varieties, all in splendid fall colors, set against the backdrop of freshly harvested vineyards.

Watch colorful butterflies and enchanting hummingbirds as they flit from flower to flower in their own specially planted habitat.

Stop by our nursery, which will be brimming with hundreds of lovely roses and perennials, just waiting to go home to your garden.

This is one of the Wine Country's most unique fall events, found only at Russian River Rose Company. And it's free!

NOVEMBER 15 Sunday 10-5 ('Rose Hip' Events at 10 & 2)
“FALL COLOR IN THE ROSE GARDEN”

OUR LAST OPEN GARDEN OF THE YEAR!

Come enjoy the Rose Garden with its display of beautiful Fall colors - flowers, butterflies and rose-hips all a-glow - surrounded by vineyards ablaze in their autumn hues.

Wreaths & Rose Hips   Learn how to use rose hips - the lovely seed pods of the rose plant - for seasonal decorations, in teas and jams, and for garden color all winter long. Our resident Wreath-mistress, Roxie Nall, will demonstrate at 10am and 2 pm the use of hips and other materials to create beautiful holiday wreaths.  Wreath materials will be available for purchase.

Rose Hip Table Display   View a fascinating collection of the many rose hips found in our garden, with the flowers that made them.  Free recipes for rose hip teas and preserves, and Hip-producing roses will be available for sale in nursery.



Butterfly Garden   Butterflies and hummingbirds greet you as you wander the garden or sit on our new ’Sweet Scent Seat’, and enjoy the fall fragrances.


Nursery-    Open and brimming with hundreds of beautiful roses, irises & perennials, ready for Fall planting - Featuring roses that produce hips & fall color. Special Holiday discounts offered on many of these plant treasures!


Rose Water & Perfume-    Our wonderful, estate produced Rose Water and ‘Rose Embrace’ Eau de Toilette will be available for purchase along with other unique RRRCo creations. Real, locally made gifts!


Tea-  Complementary hot organic tea will be served (donation requested).



Nursery and Display Garden open from 10-5.  No reservations required.  Free of charge for Garden and Nursery.  'Rose Hip' events at 10 & 2.

2009 ON-GOING EVENTS

DIRECTIONS:    Our NURSERY (MAP) is about 90 miles north of San Francisco (12 miles north of Santa Rosa)and is very close to Healdsburg in the HEART OF THE SONOMA COUNTY WINE COUNTRY. Take Highway 101 north to Healdsburg, take the 'Central Healdsburg' exit, turn a 'hard' left at the 2 nd light signal, go 1/4 mile and under Hwy 101, turn left at Kinley Drive, go one block and turn right at Magnolia Drive (you should see the Alderbrook Winery on your right) and proceed 3/4 mile to 1685 Magnolia Drive, we're on the left.