Jack Wiley, grandson of Dorothy Stemler, founder of Roses of Yesterday and Today, assists behind the scenes with plant production and photography at Roses of Yesterday and Today . He is one of the three founders of the innovative software company which licenses technology for creating custom characters, Haptek, Inc., www.haptek.com .
Brother-in-Law, Andy Wiley, assists with shipping your orders, plant production and garden maintenance.
Guinivere (Jenny Vestal) Wiley met Jack Wiley in Santa Cruz, CA in 1996. Jack Wileyhad taken photography classes from her Uncle, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Sam Vestal. The Wiley's family home was only two blocks away from Guinivere's father's childhood home (Jim Vestal ,www.jimvestal.net, award winning photographer and retired photo editor). Although Guinivere grew up in Sacramento, CA,it was as if she married the boy next door. Jack was her grandmother's paper boy!
After graduating with a degree in English, with a minor in Art, from UC Santa Barbara in 1989, Guinivere lived in Kauai for five years while spending alternate years in South East Asia and India, where she studied Homeopathy and Yoga with Dr. V. P. Khanna of Almora, India. In 1994 and 1995, after spending time in Peru and Bolivia, Guinivere completed courses in Advanced Hypnotherapy and HypnoAnesthesiology at the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy.
Jack and Guinivere met the
year his mother and father closed down the business. Guinivere proposed
opening the garden on the honor system, so the garden and potted roses
would be available every day year-round. In 1998, Guinivere began
running Roses of Yesterday and Today with Jack and Andy's help, and in
1999 they married. In December, 2000, they had their son and the
business has continued to be a family affair.
Guinivere currently indulges her love of painting by offering customers
their own custom painted vases for their roses. She teaches Emotional Intelligence and is certified associate and store manager at the non-profit organization Six Seconds, the Emotional Intelligence Network. She will be teaching an Emotional Intelligence Workshop at Santa Cruz Adult Ed July, 2010.
