ROSE RAMBLER 17.3.2016 …
Hello dear rose friends from a rather cooler Clonbinane!
We enjoyed out day at Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show yesterday – it was lovely to see so many familiar faces during our venture through the displays. Can you believe it’s the FIRST time I’ve actually walked through every part of the gardens during MIFGS … for 17 years I was there at the crack of dawn, busy at our display site all day then drove home – they were exhausting days so it was especially lovely to see MIFGS from the ‘other side’!
Most exciting for me was the huge display of New Release Roses for 2016 – to see the public sniffing every rose, gasping at their beauty while the poor roses wilted under the intense heat of the lighting! So glad I could take these lovely pics on the first day of the show …
A DAUGHTER’S GIFT
Truly magnificent long-stemmed blooms of darkest crimson with silver reverse will make a wonderful lasting specimen in a vase – strong, healthy foliage and a light, sweet fragrance too …
DARK DESIRE
(Kordes) With a HUGE fragrance there is no doubt this will be very, very popular and it was easy to see the durability of the flower despite the hot lighting – this is indeed a superb rose!
BELLE PARFUM
(Delbard) indeed a magnificently fragrant rose with a perfect bud which opens to reveal a swirling mass of petals and again, the roses on display were holding up beautifully under the hot lighting …
There were some of my favourite recently released roses which we now have planted in our gardens and urge you to consider purchasing these to add to your collection …
FATHER OF PEACE
(Meilland) is incredibly beautiful with amazing fragrance, extremely healthy, robust growth and flowers which last particularly well in all weather …
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Huge flowers with magnificent fragrance which last longer on the bush than any large-flowered hybrid-tea I know – strong, healthy grower in all climates!
THANK YOU
(Kordes) Large clusters of fully-petalled blooms which retain their deep mauve colour despite the heat and are sweetly fragrant. The shrub is nicely rounded – perfect for mass planting.
With
www.rosesalesonline.com.au now open for winter bare-rooted rose ordering, be sure to get your orders in early to select
A FREE ROSE when the order value is over $100*
*This offer is available until 31st March.
NOTE: WE ARE STILL POSTING POTTED ROSES
AND GIFT ROSES!
ALL 2016 NEW RELEASE ROSES WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE AS BARE-ROOTED ROSES THIS WINTER!
GRA’S GARBLE …
Here are a few tips to get your potted roses looking super beautiful through the last hot weather:
- When watering pots, water over the entire surface of the pot and fill until water leaches out the drain holes;
- Yes, you can put a large saucer under the pot without causing disease issues;
- Use seaweed solution at least once a fortnight – you can add liquid fertilizer to the seaweed and pour over the foliage too;
- Sprinkle granulated fertilizer lightly over the surface of the potting mix at least every 6 weeks.
- Pots require DAILY WATERING and can be mulched with milled lucerne to retain moisture!
Q. Where do you find lots of keys that don’t open anything? A. On a piano!
I’ve been attending a course with Australia BIODYNAMICS – Vic at Toolangi for the past six weeks and will have some very interesting information to share in future issues – meantime, if you haven’t already got a compost heap happening, get one started NOW as you’ll soon have autumn leaves to collect – such a valuable resource for compost!
Q. What happened to the man who sat on a pin? A. He got the point!
Have a beaut week in your autumn garden …
Cheers from Graham, Diana & Mooi at Clonbinane.
We’ve been asked to place a recent pic of Mooi here for you –
She’s nearly 3 now and loves to let you know she’s here when you visit
– so you pick her up for a cuddle!
