Here are three magnificent orange coloured roses which we highly recommend adding to your rose garden NOW…
FIRESTAR ROSE
‘Firestar’ is a floribunda/shrub rose with a kaleidoscope of colours including mandarin-orange, raspberry pink and scarlet with medium sized blooms continually. ‘Firestar’ is a symbol used in some form by most volunteer Fire Brigades in Australia. Purchase Rose!
FIRESTAR ROSE
‘Firestar’ is a floribunda/shrub rose with a kaleidoscope of colours including mandarin-orange, raspberry pink and scarlet with medium sized blooms continually. ‘Firestar’ is a symbol used in some form by most volunteer Fire Brigades in Australia. Purchase Rose!
TINTERN ROSE
‘Tintern’ is one of the most rewarding roses to grow in almost any location in the garden - it's a fantastic rose in tubs too. A versatile rose so stunningly bright so healthy and so very free flowering; all this complimented by a lovely fragrance! Purchase Rose!
PLANTING A ROSE IN FEBRUARY...
which is generally considered the hottest month of the year, is always successful when you follow these steps:
- Dig a rough hole approximately 50 x 50 x 50cms – retain all soil into wheelbarrow and blend with compost and some leaf litter from another site in your garden
- Fill the hole with water – you can add seaweed to the water
- When the water has dissipated, break the walls in with shovel sideways which sends new roots forging deep down into the clay sub-soil
- Place a few shovels of blended soil and compost into the hole leaving approximately 30cms of height space for the potted rose
- Soak the potted rose thoroughly prior to planting
- Upend the pot and place down into the hole – no need to tickle the roots
- Fill remaining soil around the potted rose making sure you place some soil OVER THE POTTING MEDIA at the top of the rose – this is very important!
- Using no less than 20 litres of water, saturate the entire area and you’ll see bubbles expelling all the air around the roots
- Top up the hole with soil as necessary – lightly tamp this last bit of soil down with your foot and then add a light layer of straw/bark mulch, then finally,
- Water over the entire plant with a watering can of seaweed solution.
There is absolutely no need to water the rose again for at least a week but if there are extreme weather conditions, you might check in three days and if you intuitively think the rose needs watering, deep soak again.
Each time you water your roses, we recommend you deep soak – sloshing a bit of water around is very wasteful because it evaporates and is useless to plant roots which we expect will travel way down into the clay sub-soil when properly watered.
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Have a happy week and good luck to all the kids going back to school … best wishes from us and our team here at Silkies Rose Farm / Rosesalesonline … Gra, Diana & Mooi