Already worried in April that the roses might start blooming any time now due to the short and mild winter, plenty of rain and little sun kept the harvest going. Our longest picking season didn’t faze our guests: This year’s picking season was very Japanese having Yumi and Yuri as our guests.

The third year in row, we welcomed tourists at the Sofia and Burgas airport with a freshly picked rose for two days during picking season.

After a rainy start of the rose picking season this year, the weather got better the last few days helping more and more roses to bloom. From now on, the morning starts at 5 am picking the roses at sunrise. We welcome anyone interested to join us for the “rosiest” time of the year.

A British travelogue of Bulgaria from the year 1965. Emphasizing on one of Bulgaria’s best feature…the Rose Valley.

April is known to be the wettest month at the roses. Plenty of rain to get the roses growing for the upcoming rose bloom. – This year, it was an especially rainy spring season. No chance to get to the rose fields without 4-wheel-drive.

The first of March is the day of “Baba Marta” in Bulgaria marking the end of Winter. On this day, people give each other the so called “martenitsi”, small red and white thread dolls (called Pizho and Penda (Пижо и Пенда), interwoven string bracelets – sometimes with other little trinkets attached wishing a “ЧЕСТИТА БАБА МАРТА” – “Happy Grandma March”.