Hello dear rose friends … it’s overwhelming to see how magnificent the potted roses are looking and it is sheer joy to go there and water them every morning – we use it as a time for quiet meditation and love the peaceful moments surrounded by heavenly fragrant roses in every colour, shape and form!
GRA’S GARBLE …
There is no doubt about it, roses LOVE to be fertilized when they’re doing all this flowering and rather than wait until they’re ‘burnt out’ we highly recommend you fertilize WHILE THEY’RE FLOWERING as this will sustain healthy foliage. When spent flowers are trimmed, the bush will respond with healthy new foliage and another round of flowers on the trimmed stem within 40-50 days!
Rules for managing your summer rose garden:
- Water regularly – maybe twice a week with at least 20 litres per rose bush
- Fertilize NOW – before it gets really hot! If you don’t have irrigation, the plants shut down to survive
- Fortnightly applications of seaweed solution will offer 3-5 degrees of heat tolerance and maintain healthy foliage – water SEAWEED OVER THE ENTIRE PLANT
- Trim constantly – the sooner you trim spent flowers by removing 20-30cm long stems the more quickly healthy new growth will produce more flowers
- Surely your garden has a good thick covering of mulch! So, so important to sustain worms, soil microbes and retain what moisture is available!
Q. Why did the surfer cry? A. Because the sea-weed
MY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TOUGH ROSES …
ROSENDORF SPARRIESHOOP
Foliage is plentiful, thick and highly disease resistant. Semi-double flowers are borne on long, strong canes with several to a head and look stunning in a vase as they slowly open and hold well. Mid-pink colour is quite distinct and highlighted by crimson stamens – an extremely healthy, hardy rose.
LIONS ROSE
The health and flowering ability of this beautiful shrub rose has to be seen to be believed! Lightly fragrant, fully double, creamy white blooms with an apricot eye produced in clusters which hold well in a vase. Glossy, dark green foliage is highly disease-resistant.
DAME ELISABETH MURDOCH
An exceptional Hybrid Tea rose which produces a proliferation of perfectly formed, subtly fragrant, large flowers with blends of apricot/pink/yellow and a splash of red bordering each petal – stunning in a vase. Magnificently showy rose which is always reliable and highly recommended.
Q. What is rude and only comes at Christmas? A. Rude-olf
Just realised that all the roses I’ve recommended this week are bred by Kordes, Germany – one of the great rose breeding houses in the world! Enjoy them all … Gra
CHRISTMAS IS COMING VERY FAST
And because Australia Post are inundated and going slow, we’re closing www.rosesalesonline.com.au NEXT THURSDAY, 17TH DECEMBER so get your orders in NOW.
All rose parcels are now being sent EXPRESS POST and this won’t necessarily GUARANTEE your parcel will arrive within 24 hours but it will have a way better chance of being delivered in optimum time than when it is delivered without EXPRESS POST labelling.
There is a slightly higher postage charge for ALL PARCELS DURING DECEMBER/JANUARY to save you and us the stress of delayed parcels and we will subsidise the shortfall of the higher postage rates – our CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU along with this little bonus to get you excited…
15% OFF ANY INSTORE PURCHASE
– use
COUPON CODE: HAPPYCUSTOMER15
to redeem your 15% DISCOUNT
until Christmas Eve at
www.rosesalesonline.com.au
This great offer is
AVAILABLE at the Rose Farm too but you
MUST ask for it … our Rose Rambler subscribers are SPECIAL CUSTOMERS – remember the CODE:
HAPPYCUSTOMER15 to be eligible for 15% off all purchases!
This lovely email came yesterday:
“THANK YOU so much for solving my Christmas present dilemma. My mother in law was thrilled with her new rose! Regards Melanie”
One more Rose Rambler to go … talk to you next week but meantime, if you live close, do pop into the Rose Farm, it’s absolutely beautiful here right now!
HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY TODAY to our very cheery, ‘know all about gardening’ grandson, COOPER who is an excellent pruner already and is featured with his wheelbarrow in my book: ALL ABOUT ROSES!
… cheers from Diana, Graham and Mooi at Clonbinane
