rosarian

The comment is offhand, meant to soothe rather than impress because Bifano works with the rich and famous every day as a master rosarian and garden designer.

Bifano threw himself into the study of roses, becoming a consulting rosarian through the American Rose Society, and one of the first three master rosarian’s for the society’s Southwest District when the designation was created in 2004.

Streisand politely declined to comment for this story, but Dan Bifano, a master rosarian and longtime gardener to Streisand, Oprah and other famous folk, believes a rose’s name “is always of utmost importance; it makes the rose salable or unsalable, and anytime a rose is connected to a celebrity, it’s going to pick up the sales.”

He also happens to be a rose expert — a “rosarian” — teaching classes at Molbak’s Garden + Home.

“������ David Austin has done beautifully is take that old-fashioned flower form and the fragrance and turned it into a modern, repeat-blooming shrub,” said Peter Kukielski, a rosarian and a former curator at the New York Botanical Garden.