Rose Woods in the Mayacmas Mtns. near Petrified Forest, California. Our 60 acres in 1975, the year we bought it.
As I take you on this tour through “Rose Woods” and the various sections of my rose garden I’ll intersperse the story of how it came to be. Until I was thirty years old I lived a city life, renting, commuting and on vacations and holidays, backpacking or gold panning in the Sierra Nevada mountains. But that changed in 1975 when my friend, Michael and I bought 24 hectares (60 acres) of land north of San Francisco Bay in the Mayacmas Mtns. of eastern Sonoma County just a couple of miles east of the historic Petrified Forest. We were looking for 4 hectares (10 acres) of flat land but everything we saw was either straight up or down, logged or shaped like a landing strip. Then we stumbled on 60 acres nearly within our price range but remote up a 4-wheel drive road at 488 meters (1600 feet). With fir and chaparral on steeper slopes, oak and grass on gentler, our goal was to plant a vineyard to pay for the land and give us income in our later years.
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Rose Woods in the Mayacmas Mtns. near Petrified Forest, California. Our 60 acres in 1975, the year we bought it.
As I take you on this tour through “Rose Woods” and the various sections of my rose garden I’ll intersperse the story of how it came to be.
Until I was thirty years old I lived a city life, renting, commuting and on vacations and holidays, backpacking or gold panning in the Sierra Nevada mountains. But that changed in 1975 when my friend, Michael and I bought 24 hectares (60 acres) of land north of San Francisco Bay in the Mayacmas Mtns. of eastern Sonoma County just a couple of miles east of the historic Petrified Forest.
We were looking for 4 hectares (10 acres) of flat land but everything we saw was either straight up or down, logged or shaped like a landing strip. Then we stumbled on 60 acres nearly within our price range but remote up a 4-wheel drive road at 488 meters (1600 feet). With fir and chaparral on steeper slopes, oak and grass on gentler, our goal was to plant a vineyard to pay for the land and give us income in our later years.