Brad Jalbert is a world renowned rose breeder. In 1989, he graduated top of his class in Horticulture from the University Of the Fraser Valley. In 2014, he was chosen as one if their top 40 Alumni. Brad opened his specialty rose nursery in 1990, featuring the best in garden roses, both old and new. His hybridizing program was started that first year and to date Brad has introduced more than 140 roses setting a Canadian record for the most rose introductions. In 2016, one of Brad’s new hybrids won two fragrance awards in Barcelona, Spain’s World Rose Trial competition. He is the first Canadian to ever win an international rose breeding award. This variety was awarded yet another fragrance medal in New Zealand in 2017, making Brad the only rose breeder not from the Southern Hemisphere to win a fragrance award there. His varieties are now in high demand world wide and have been introduced on four continents making his rose breeding program the widest reaching in Canadian history.
20 August 2015