If there’s one thing that shouldn’t be bigger in Texas, it’s antique garden roses. Or at least that is what experts at a leading distributor insisted when Theresa Pham called to order 2,000 plants for her foray into farming, Life in Rose Farm and Garden in Magnolia, Texas.
Two years into the project, the European roses Theresa and her husband, Shaw Nguyen, have lovingly cultivated include a variety from southern France that boasts coral blooms “as big as your entire hand, not just your