Hello Dear Rose Friends,
We appeal for you to be patient as we manage to assemble orders and post hundreds of parcels every week. We are still waiting on several varieties of roses to be dug from the sopping wet ground! If you are patient, we can be almost 100% sure you’ll get every single rose variety you ordered.
You can safely plant bare-rooted roses right through August and into September. Even October would be fine provided the roses are well-managed with seaweed solution immediately after planting to reduce transplant shock!
Standard roses are most definitely still in the ground and won’t be dug until later this month – they’ve had some brilliant cold, frosty mornings which hardens the wood and makes them safer to handle and transit without breakages.
If your order contains standards and other roses, those roses are being carefully managed here in the vast heel-in beds and will be sent along with your standards during early August.
We enjoyed hosting the ABC Gardening Australia film crew with Millie Ross last Monday! Segments will be aired next winter when she’ll show you how to fearlessly prune your roses. Millie did a top job pruning lots of roses in our gardens.
For a giggle:
This story was worth a giggle at the bloke’s coffee morning … “Jimmy was digging a hole in his backyard when his neighbour stuck his head over the fence and asked what he was digging the hole for. “I’m burying my goldfish.” The neighbour asks: “Why such a big hole?” Jimmy responded: “Because my goldfish is inside your cat.”
BEST SELLING ROSE BUNDLE
These three varieties are generally purchased as Gift Roses (potted, lovely gift wrapping, card with personal message, gift box and postage) so perhaps you can pot them yourself and then, when an occasion arises in coming months, you’ll have a rose you can gift immediately.
Best Friend - This magnificent rose was named by the R.S.P.C.A to honour the unconditional love and special friendship which all animal lovers cherish. This exquisite rose produces long, strong stems of the most highly fragrant bright pink roses which are ideally suited for flower arrangements.
SHOP NOW!
Heaven Scent is a wonderful Hybrid Tea rose - a lovely healthy, spreading bush produces huge blooms of lavender/pink flowers with ruffled split-end petals continually throughout the season. The blooms have a most heavenly fragrance, hence the name! Highly recommended rose for cut flowers too!
SHOP NOW!
Forget me Not is a very highly recommended rose for health, vigour, stunning foliage, exquisite fruity fragrance from a Hybrid Tea shaped bud which opens to a cupped mass of swirling petals in shades of mauve/warm pink. Blooms last well in a vase and are continually produced.
SHOP NOW!
Get rugged up and go out into your winter garden with a sharpened pair of secateurs and gloved hands. Enjoy pruning your roses.
Cheers from all at Silkies Rose Farm, Clonbinane. Gra, Diana, Mooi and the chickens!