WINFREY: Hi, everybody.
Welcome to one of my favorite places on earth.
This is my garden in Santa Barbara, California.
I love, love, love being here.
I have about 500 rose bushes in this garden.
Each rose with a different name, a different personality,
a different fragrance.
This is one of my all-time favorites,
it's an antique climbing tea rose.
Has about 120 petals on it,
and when the petals fall the whole ground
looks like snow.
I was told that if you want a great garden,
you got to get the great guy.
The great guy for roses is Dan Bifano.
He knows everything about roses.
He taught me everything I know about gardens,
which still isn't a lot.
But I do know we're standing between
Hot Cocoa and Marilyn Monroe.
And before I met Dan,
I didn't know that every rose had a name.
Mr. DAN BIFANO: Oh, yes.
WINFREY: Yeah.
But anyway, Dan is the one who
helped put this entire garden together.
I sat down with Dan and we planned
it based upon the colors in my house, right?
Mr. BIFANO: Exactly.
WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. BIFANO: These roses were all chosen to match your interiors.
WINFREY: Let me show y'all.
This is my favorite, favorite,
favorite rose. Look at this rose.
This is called Honey Dijon.
I knew nothing about roses or planning roses.
I think the biggest thing is knowing the climate and the soil, right?
Mr. BIFANO: Sure.
WINFREY: That's what I learned from you.
Mr. BIFANO: The right rose for the right location.
WINFREY: OK.
Mr. BIFANO: It's all about good drainage...
WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. BIFANO: ...good soil...
WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. BIFANO: ...good air circulation to keep your diseases down,
and lots of sunshine.
WINFREY: So the same rose that's going
to do well in Iowa isn't necessarily
going to do well in California?
Mr. BIFANO: Right.
WINFREY: That's right.
Mr. BIFANO: Santa Barbara is the perfect
place to grow roses.
WINFREY: Yay!
Mr. BIFANO: You are--they--we have...
WINFREY: We got the perfect place!
I knew something was going on here.
Mr. BIFANO: That's why I'm so lucky.
WINFREY: This is a rose town, honey.
How do I know, if I live in Idaho,
what rose I should get vs. if I live in Memphis?
How do I know that?
Mr. BIFANO: I think the best way to do
that is to contact your local rose society.
And they'll...
WINFREY: There's a rose society?
Mr. BIFANO: Almost every big or even small cities
have rose societies.
And they'll teach you how to choose
the right rose for your your area.
WINFREY: So the key is getting the rose that's
best for your environment, which is what we did.
Mr. BIFANO: Yeah.
WINFREY: We did that a lot.
Mr. BIFANO: Yeah. And I think it paid off.
WINFREY: Boy, did it ever pay off.
Would you look at this garden?
WINFREY: If you want to grow your own rose garden,
you need to contact your local rose society
or library and find out what kinds of roses
will do well in your area.
Because they all don't do well in the same areas.
You can start with just one bush.
It really is, I believe, the gift that keeps giving.
Besides roses, for years I've always loved the
beauty of English gardens.
With the help of Dan, my rose guy,
here's what we were able to
create in my backyard.
WINFREY: Come on up here.
I want to show you my English garden.
I went to Dan and said,
'Could you help me put together an English garden?'
And as you would expect, Dan said,
'What kind of flowers do you want?'
I go, 'I don't know, English once.
I don't know.'
What makes a English garden an English garden?
Mr. BIFANO: I think it's a mix of a variety of plants...
WINFREY: Yeah.
Mr. BIFANO: ...that transition--generally,
you can see that they follow a wall.
And the size of the plants transition upwards.
WINFREY: Ah.
Mr. BIFANO: So you have layering.
And that's what an English garden is
all about.
WINFREY: That's what I love about it,
it's about layering.
That's what makes me so happy.
And layering is also about texturing, right?
Mr. BIFANO: Absolutely. Lots of texturing.
WINFREY: Because you look and it's
lots of different textures.
See, this whole garden was designed
so that I could come down, or somebody
could, come down and cut the
roses and the flowers, mix the
flowers, and all of these flowers
can go into the house.
Mm. This is a pergola outside my tea house here.
This is one of my other favorite roses.
It's in the same family as the Honey Dijon,
this is called Butterscotch.
And I just planted this like a couple months ago.
And in probably six months to a year,
this is going to cover
this entire pergola.
And it will be covered in roses.
Won't that be a dream?
And over here, let me show you.
Dan, come here, let's
show the people my rose.
Dan and I have been testing,
along with other neighbors
who are also testing some of these plants,
rose to see if I could have an Oprah rose.
A couple of seasons ago we tested some,
they were a little too light,
a little too airy.
So I'm going--going for a vibrant red.
This is going to be like a ruby
red when it's fully in blossom.
Mr. BIFANO: This is an eight-inch bloom.
WINFREY: Eight inches wide?
Mr. BIFANO: Eight inches wide.
WINFREY: I need a big rose with some color in it.
We couldn't have a pale rose.