Marveling at the sprawling, vibrant rose buds that populate Life in Rose Farm in Magnolia, it’s hard to believe owners Theresa Pham and Shaw Nguyen have only been growing roses for three years. And though the view at this idyllic 27-acre cut-rose farm could convince anyone to retreat from Houston city life, Pham originally needed some persuading—in the shape of roses.
“I’m a city girl and I don’t like all the unkempt land in the country, but Shaw came prepared and said, ‘You love roses, don’t you?,’” Pham says, describing the moment her husband enticed her to relocate the family out to the country—something Nguyen had been itching to do.
Life in Rose Farm
Knowing he wouldn’t easily take no for an answer and that the couple always thrived in the midst of a challenge, Pham agreed to look at some properties with her husband: “That’s how we are. We make decisions fast, we dive in, and we have faith it’ll work out.’”
And dive in—well, more like dig in—they did. Within a span of a month and a half after that conversation, the couple and their two children moved out to a Magnolia farm, near Old Town Magnolia off State Highway 99, complete with tall, mature pine, pecan, oak, and maple trees and a water well. Pham put her fashion design business on hold, and Shaw left his IT position earlier this year to focus on running the farm, and though the fruitful results are evident in their 6,000-plus rose plants, the labor and learning involved wasn’t always easy.
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