Hello Dear Rose Friends,
With a few days of glorious sunshine, our potted roses look amazing and are ready to be posted for planting in your garden… Did you know that every single rose variety is suitable for planting in a large tub if you only have a sunny balcony?
It’s important that you have at least six hours of sunshine with good air circulation for roses to produce healthy foliage and lots of flowers!
Go potting lots of roses around your outdoor areas…
Next Thursday, 13th October, we’ll be speaking at the Camberwell Morning Garden Club so if you live in the vicinity, you will be welcomed:
- Camberwell Petanque Clubrooms – 10am - noon
- Wakefields Grove - 641 Through Road (opposite Garden Road)
- Melways Ref 60 F4
- Google Maps link
If you have issues with your roses or would like a rose identified, bring specimen material along and we’ll do our best to assist.
Hope to see you at Camberwell next Thursday!
With heightened expectation, we long for our magnificent roses to commence flowering – for us here at Clonbinane, it will be a while yet as it continues to be cloudy and it rains - roses love lots of warm sunshine.
With the potting almost completed, we can take a break… Um, I don’t think so!
There’s lots to do in the garden now while we wait for our roses to flower… Daffodils and camellias are finishing their magnificent display, tulips are still awesome as were the blossoms of our various fruit trees. Pansy and calendula borders are delightful and will offer food for ladybirds and other predator insects while they wait for aphids as their most delectable diet!
This year, we have a most wonderful collection of WEEPING ROSES which offer a spectacular display when positioned in a very obvious area of your garden for all to enjoy.
We also stock very sturdy ring and pole support kits (made locally!) which Toni used to support her beautiful Crepuscule weeper. These are imperative to display the blooming canes which spill outwards and down continually throughout the flowering season.
Here is copy of an email Toni shared of her recently planted Crepuscule weeping rose:
"Hi Gra and Diana, I hope you are all well and having better Spring weather than us in Sydney. Rain rain, more rain. However today the sun has been shining and I’ve been out in the garden, working off some calories I hope, while having a ball.
I thought I would send you a picture of the Crepuscule weeper we bought from you in April. (Louise our crazy, bubbly daughter was our courier – we met half-way at Gundagai)."
"We had half a dozen flowers over the last month which was very exciting and now there is wonderful new growth starting all over the plant. It’s so exciting. We get quite a few walkers pass by and a few are watching the progress with interest.
I’m giving the roses your monthly eco rose spray so maybe this has contributed to the wonderful growth."
Here’s the recipe of our Organic Rose Management Program which you can apply at least once a month or fortnightly whilst humid conditions prevail …
TO 10 LITRES OF WATER ADD:
- ¼ cup Eco Fungicide – dissolve the powder in water then add
- ¼ cup Eco Oil – add Eco-Neem as per directions if pests are an issue
- 1 scoop Eco-Seaweed (or any seaweed product – follow directions)
Thoroughly mix all products and spray over foliage to run-off – NEVER SPRAY WHEN TEMPERATURE IS EXPECTED TO BE 30 DEGREES OR MORE!
Spraying in the morning is most effective because the plant stomata (pores) are open and receptive – a bit like how we are taller and more alert when we wake up and shrink during the day… Yes, it’s a fact!
Toni goes on to report about odd foliage appearing on roses; I’m sure you are possibly seeing the same kind of foliage as the deluge continues… We see it here in the nursery on potted roses which are carried over from last season but we’re in the process of repotting and applying our Organic Rose Management Program to ensure they recover!
"I do have a problem with rose leaves on my other roses, about 8 out of 10 of them. I have attached a couple of pictures. The leaves towards the top of the bush get wrinkly and go a reddish yellow colour. Don’t think I’ve seen it before. It could be they are waterlogged?? For the first time I have traces of moss on the edge of the rose garden."
"Such an exciting time in the garden. Thanks for the joy your hard work brings to us all, Toni"
A giggle for you …
Q: What do you always leave behind at the beach?
A: Footprints!
Golden Potted Rose Bundle
Since yellow roses are some of the first to flower, here are three of the most lovely you could wish to plant for at least nine months of spectacular display of bright yellow glory in your garden…
GOLDEN POTTED ROSE BUNDLE INCLUDING PACK/POST - $157.50
All the roses are potted now but if you purchase all the above, we’ll post you the magnificent GRAHAM THOMAS as our gift to you in celebration of spring!
We hope you have time out with your children these school holidays, enjoy all the moments and be sure to share some of that precious time in your garden together…Cheers from the team at Silkies Rose Farm, Clonbinane.