Hello Dear Rose Friends,
It’s hectic here with many, many boxes of roses being posted – it’s exciting, it’s a relief! After months of anticipation, we can say that we have received most varieties we expected. Interestingly, two orange coloured roses namely, Slim Dusty and Firestar are still elusive so they’re holding up a few orders but we’re confident they’ll be here soon.
We’ve posted cartons of standard roses with StarTrack and had resoundingly positive feedback from customers …
“Hi Diana, just wanted to let you know that my roses arrived in Ocean Grove the day after they were sent. I went to post office to ask if they would let me know when they arrived, and they were there already. They are happily sitting in seaweed solution. Thank you for your excellent service as always. Vicki”
Parcels sent with StarTrack Express must be delivered to a business address – your closest Post Office is a business address so we’ll call you for this information unless you’ve already given it to us. Perhaps your work address would suffice.
Parcels sent with StarTrack Premium cost at least four times the price of Express so that’s why we ask you to supply appropriate details and we can once again, send our standard to you for a reasonable price - $64.50 per parcel which can contain up to 10 standard roses.
There’s an updated list of available standard roses at www.rosesalesonline.com.au so if you thought you’d missed out purchasing standard roses this season, go shopping now!
… My Subi XV has been loaded with parcels driving back and forth to Wandong Post Office constantly and what I love most about my job is knowing we’re posting gorgeous roses and I check every single destination – this would have been very handy when I was studying geography back in my school days!
Juliana came to the nursery this past weekend to collect fertilizer as she had completed pruning her roses. She was all apologetic because when she reached for her new Lowe secateurs she cussed at me because I had sold her such a small secateur which was never going to do the job. Well, once she did a few cuts, she retracted all the cussing and couldn’t believe how easy they made the task of pruning her roses this year!
SPECIAL OFFER …
Make your pruning easy – as a very special offer, purchase the Lowe 5 secateur and we’ll pop the sharpener in for FREE … $79.50 plus post and pack.
HAVE A GIGGLE
Q. What's a gardener's favourite Beatles song?
A. Lettuce Bee!
Since we’ve been so flat-out, we haven’t got pics to show you of how we prune the different types of roses … next week, I promise!
Meantime, enjoy your winter garden, enjoy planting your new roses and definitely get out and prune your roses any time now. You might prefer to wait until you’ve completed our pruning demonstration at Ken’s on 28th July
HAVE ANOTHER GIGGLE
Q. What do you get if you cross a monkey with a flower?
A. Chimp-Pansy!