Hello dear rose friends and welcome to autumn with cooler days and abundant colour. Autumn is the season to see roses at their absolute best! Their colour is brilliantly true and unfaded, inhale their delicious fragrance on a sunny autumn day … aaahhh! Of course, it’s the season for collecting rose catalogues to know which roses are being released this coming winter – the excitement of it all!
We are in the process of updating our rosesalesonline.com.au website to enable receipt of your winter orders for bare-rooted roses; meantime, GIFTROSES.COM.AU will continue to receive orders for flowering roses suitable to gift for those special occasions which happen in our lives.
This week, one of the most spectacular roses in the nursery is MANY HAPPY RETURNS – such a delightful rose to gift for the occasion of a birthday to the person who ‘has everything’ but you still wish to recognise and congratulate. Acknowledge their special day with this wonderful shrub rose which flowers continually throughout the season, is suitable for a large tub or that ‘empty space’ in a garden bed.
This extremely healthy rose produces a sensational proliferation of rose hips in late autumn/early winter to offer the recipient an opportunity to make ‘rose hip wine’ … I made it once, years ago – after months of waiting, we enjoyed a most delicious beverage – sweet, like port but truly nutritious because of the Vitamin C content of rose hips.
Now, here’s an idea, present the rose MANY HAPPY RETURNS along with any of the wonderful recipes to use the rose hips which add a whole different dimension to your rose gift! Go check with Mr Google for a recipe which suits the recipient … wine, jam, soup?
3CR GARDENING SHOW THIS SUNDAY …
Diana will be on the panel for talk-back radio this Sunday – it’s an ALL GIRL SHOW in recognition of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY.
Tune in from 7.30am – 9.15am at 855 on the AM DIAL
and enjoy what listeners tell us is the best gardening talk-back radio in Melbourne!
If you would like to speak with me or others on the panel with a gardening question, phone 03 9419 8377 or 03 9419 0155.
GRA’S GARBLE …
I’ll start with a joke because my other garble is serious …
Q. What’s the difference between broccoli and bogies? A. Kids will eat bogies … gawd!
I talk to you about how we use Australian products in our organic rose management program, how fabulous they are and how proud we are to use them to grow sensational roses! We also use Australian made and researched TRI-NATURE products exclusively in our home for personal body care, cleaning, pets and even our cars!
Please consider what you use around your home – take the most recent news seriously and review why you should read the labels on products and remember that here in Australia we produce some of the most reliably environmentally friendly products available to us, our children and our pets! The few extra $’s you might spend are so worthwhile!!!
Next week I’ll be presenting you with a list of jobs to do now that its cooler outdoors and you’ll be more inclined to get into the garden … Gra
Have a beaut week in this wonderful autumn weather … we’ll definitely be open throughout this long weekend and hope you can pop in for a visit …. the roses would love to see you because they look absolutely stunning right now!
Cheers from Diana, Graham & Mooi
I was so excited to find this today! We’re in the psocers of renovating our front garden, and this has given me some wonderful new ideas and reminded me of others. Thanks, Sue!
BRILLIANT … subscribe to the Rose Rambler at http://www.rosesalesonline.com.au and you’ll get regular updates direct … cheers – Diana