We ship overnight Monday-Thursday to the continental 48 states.

We also currently hand deliver in the South Bay of Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo area. To confirm if you are eligible for local delivery, email info@lifeishermomsa.com

For wholesale, please contact wholesale@lifeishermosa.com.

We ship Monday-Thursday for delivery on Tuesday-Friday for one-off orders. For subscriptions, we ship on Thursdays for Friday deliveries.

Orders must be placed by 8:00 am PST for same day shipping.

For local “hand delivery”, we deliver on on Thursdays (Central Coast) and Fridays (LA). You can enter your zip code to confirm if you are eligible for local delivery or contact us as info@lifeishermosa.com

Orders placed by 8 am PST Monday-Thursday are eligible for same day overnight shipping. Otherwise orders are shipped on the next shipping date (Monday-Thursday).

For local hand delivery, orders must be placed by 8 am on Wednesdays (Central Coast) and 8 am on Thursday (LA).

Direct to consumer rose selection is not available at this time. HOWEVER, when placing your order, you can absolutely specify your wish list of rose (in name or color), and we’ll do our very best to fulfill it! Otherwise, we deliver “Rancher’s Choice” of the best selection of our beautiful garden fresh roses. We’d love to guarantee specific rose requests to consumers in the future but so many variables (availability, weather, website logistics, shipping hardiness) make it too difficult at this time. Thanks for understanding!

Garden roses are picked when they are still closed to get the most life possible out of them. Once you receive your roses, we recommend the following:

-Remove the guard petals. These are the petals on the outside of the rose that may be a slightly different color than the rest of the rose. They protect the rose as it grows. Grab the guard petals near the base of the bloom and gently pull them off (florists always remove these - that’s why roses from them always look so perfect!).

-Make sure your vase is clean of bacteria.

-Trim the stems ¼ inch at a 45 degree angle (to maximize the end for water uptake).

-Remove any remaining leaves that will fall below water level. Leaves in the water breed bacteria and shorten the vase life of your roses (and can cause an unpleasant smell).

-We recommend you leave the thorns ON for the longest vase life. Removing the thorns opens the stems to bacteria and can lead to smelly water and shorter rose vase life. Watch out, however, these are real roses with real thorns! Life is Hermosa bandaids coming soon.

-Add the flower food provided (we recommend adding a little each day versus all of it at once). If you run out, you can supplement with a little bit of sugar (the food part) and a little bit of vinegar (kills the bacteria).

-If you plan to use the roses in a more complex arrangement, we recommend letting them sit in water for 1-2 hours after you do the above steps before arranging the roses.

-We recommend changing the water daily for the longest vase life.

-Roses should open up within 24 hours and will continue to open up over several days.

Organic garden roses bring a big, beautiful punch but because of their organic nature, they don’t last for weeks and weeks. Upon receipt, the typical vase life of your Hermosa Ranch roses is around 5 glorious days. Some of our rose varieties may last longer than this and some shorter.

Garden roses are more organic in nature and not your typical “long-stemmed rose”. Their uniqueness in flower is accompanied by distinctive stems that usually aren’t as long. Some of our rose stems are stout and strong like you may be used to seeing, while others are a more romantic weepy style. We detail the usual stem type in on our “roses” page.

We have over 70 chickens at Hermosa Ranch who live free-range during the day and safely tuck themselves to bed in our secure chicken coop in the evenings. We have a variety of chickens who lay green, blue, brown, and white eggs. There is no nutritional difference in the eggs based on their color, we just think they are pretty to look at that way! And fun fact - egg color is determined by the color of the chicken’s ear lobes (green, blue, brown, white)!

Additional fun fact - chickens have ear lobes!!

Quick answer - we are not USDA 100%. Certified Organic - at this time. We DO actively use numerous organic practices with the hope of becoming certified in the future.

The longer answer is that this process is lengthy, multi-layered, and expensive. We are fully committed to protecting our consumers and the environment with organic practices; these natural processes extend from soil health and water management to flower nutrition, pest control, shipping packaging, and even environmentally friendly band aids (for those darn rose thorns).

We proudly deliver Hobbs Bacon from California, family-owned, Hobbs Applewood Smoke Meat in Northern California. Hobbs is known for pioneering California Style bacon - cured and sweetly smoked to enhance the flavor. Hobb’s bacon has been favored by leading chefs in Napa Valley for many years.

We wrap rose stems with water soaked (compostable) sponges, wrapped in a compostable baggie and then cover them in brown paper. We then add ice packs to each box and wrap it all in an insulation layer. Roses should survive like this for many hours and perk up after a trim and a few hours in fresh water.

We’re on the central coast of California between Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo.

We’re not open to the public at this time. For special requests, please contact events@lifeishermosa.com.

Yes! Please contact events@lifeishermosa.com.

Yes! We ship Monday-Thursday to the continental 48 states! We can’t wait to share our amazing roses with you

We start by strategically utilizing the land around us. We make our own mulch from fallen oak branches and use it in our rose fields to insulate our rose bushes from the cold and to hold in water which reduces the amount of water we need to use.

We use sensors and other technology (check out Chris’ blog post on the “Fertigator”!) to control our water cycles and be as exact and efficient as possible with our water usage. Likewise, we use organic-based fertilizers and pesticides to diminish damage to the environment, animals, and the roses.

We also practice rotational grazing with cows on the ranch land around the rose fields to resuscitate the soil and reduce fire danger.

Lastly, we have 2 separate solar installations including back up battery packs on the ranch to help offset most of our use of electrical power. And often times, we contribute energy back to the power grid.