Hello Dear Rose Friends,
Spring sunshine on our potted roses means they’ll be fully foliaged within weeks – during the next 10 days, all pots will be top-dressed with Bio-Stimulant from Soilcharge and sprayed with our organic rose management products. It’s so exciting to see the nursery poised for flowering soon … aaaah!
… now that your roses are starting to foliate and flower, I urge you to remove the plant label which will, almost surely, cause grief on the branch where it’s attached – well, that’s my experience after all these years.
Once the label was removed, we had the dilemma of remembering the name of each rose and we’ve tried all sorts of things from venetian blind strips pop-rivetted to conduit with hand-painted black enamel paint used for the rose name – these hand-made labels were found all around Kilmore and were usually returned to the rose nursery! They were sturdy, artistic but oh, so very time-consuming and it was especially annoying when they were vandalised.
We don’t have vandal issues here at Clonbinane so years ago, we started using cow-ear-tags which were attached with cable-tie to a nearby stake … marginally successful but hardly a pretty sight …
Welcome to TAGGED-4-LIFE who created these durable plant labels which, as their name suggests, will ensure our roses are permanently named for their life-time … such a professional, almost ‘botanic-garden look’ in our home garden where it’s very important that roses and trees are labelled for us as our memory slips and of course, for our visitors too!
Take a look at
www.tagged4life.com.au and be confident that when you remove the commercial tag supplied with your rose which is sure to fade and perish, you too can install a permanent identifier for your roses.
I believe this is absolutely imperative for our
GIFT ROSE which is usually planted on a memorable occasion – a birthday, anniversary, death or just because you planted a rose for the love of it … give it a permanent name tag!
A giggle for you ...
Q: What do you call a belt made of watches?
A: A waist of time!
AUSTRALIA POST CHANGE
… We’ve been advised that our 113cm tall box which housed our standard roses to post you, will no longer be handled by Auspost from October onwards so, since we have about 40 of these boxes, rather than burn them, we want to offer ONE LAST POSTING OF STANDARD ROSES …
Select any of the following varieties available online at
SPECIAL END OF SEASON BARE-ROOTED PRICE of $59.95 each plus postage and handling and we’ll post them in our sturdy 113cm box until next Thursday, 21st September …
These magnificent standards roses IN LIMITED NUMBERS FOR PURCHASE NOW, (FIRST IN BEST DRESSED) will be trimmed so they’re sure to arrive ready for planting in your garden for flowering from this November onwards …
Remember to stake standard roses so they offer continued structural beauty for many years in your garden.
ONLY $59.95 EACH PLUS PACK/POST TO YOUR DOOR
A giggle for you ...
Q: What do you call a girl who’s always wrong?
A: Miss Informed.
Enjoy the glorious sunny days of spring in your garden whilst we press on with pruning the last of our garden roses knowing they’ll be flowering robustly again from November onwards.
Cheers from all of us here at Clonbinane …