Debbie Painter’s garden features:

• Tea roses
• Rock retaining walls
• Pathways to secluded seating

Debbie Painter has lots and lots of Rocks and Roses.  Debbie is no stranger to roses.  Her parents were great rose growers and judges, introducing her to many varieties of hybrid tea roses.  Debbie caught the bug and has dozens of “teas” cascading down the front bank of her garden.  She even propagates her own from cuttings she finds in other gardens, owners permitting, of course. 

Debbie uses organic fertilizer and has added more and more old garden roses (specifically David Austins) to her garden.  Unlike her parents who believed in the strict “rose garden” design, Debbie believes more interest is created in the gardens if you incorporate other plants like babies breath, lavender and lilies.

Debbie’s husband, Bob, is no stranger to rocks.  He has designed and built several graceful walls on steep grades throughout the garden.  Each rock is evaluated for its size and shape before it is carefully placed in his creations.