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What a Winter! I think we never experienced such a busy and demanding digging season before, with hundreds of new orders coming every week and so many emails and requests to address every day in the office.
We understand you're very impatient to receive your new roses and we really appreciate your understanding and support; it's not only the exceptional demand to make things more complicated at the nursery, but also the unusual situation related to Covid-19, that slows everything down and makes us all feel quite insecure. We are getting there though, dealing with this day by day and working really hard for you.
Many of our varieties are already sold out, but many others are still in stock, so you can still place your order, it's not too late. Just keep in mind that orders received now will be processed and posted at the end of this month and that It'll be ok to plant them at the end of winter or beginning of spring.
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| This international award-winning hybrid tea rose is a very tough and dense-growing, upright bush, with all the health and disease resistance famous in the Kordes roses. Large, elegant, deep velvet red unfading blooms are produced in clusters or singly framed by mid-green leaves, over a long flowering period.
Fragrance: light Height: 120cm
$1.00 from the sale of each rose will be donated to the ADCC Qld Inc to help fund ANZAC education to Australian school children & war veteran-related projects.
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Large orchid pink blooms perch on long, single stems that have few thorns with lush green foliage.
Heaven Scent is an easy to grow rose that blooms in flushes throughout the season and is perfect as a landscape or shrub specimen.
Fragrance: Intense, old damask rose.
Height: to 150cm
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| A modern rose with a difference: Espresso has coffee brown semi-double petals with bright yellow stamens.
It has extremely healthy foliage and upright growth up to 75cm.
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| Compared to any other yellow rose, the Golden Child comes with brighter, longer lasting canary yellow colour, bigger and more fragrant clusters of flowers with about 35 petals, glossier foliage, handsome mahogany new growth and vastly improved resistance to rose disorders.
The Golden Child has won the Gold Medal 2013 and is the Australian Rose of the Year 2013.
Fragrance: medium
Height: 120 cm
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| Fruity Parfuma has a strong intoxicating fragrance, rich in facets of ripe raspberries and rhubarb with a hint of patchouli.
Lovely healthy growth to 80cm high and 40cm wide on average and the unusual round blooms get to 6cm in width in a wonderful coral red. A must-have for its fragrance alone. ADR winner 2018.
Fragrance: Intense
Height: 80cm
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| This 2020 Release is a very pretty rose, with masses of pale pink with yellow stamens flowers.
Pretty as a Picture grows in a compact 60cm x 60cm bush and it’s very fragrant.
Fragrance: Strong Height: 60cm tall x 60cm wide
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| Regarded by David Austin himself as “a rather special rose; in fact, it is possibly the best rose that we have introduced to date.” Named for David Austin’s granddaughter, Olivia Rose Austin ®(Ausmixture), it commences flowering very early in the season and continues well into autumn.
Medium to large fully cupped roses of an even mid pink which have a good fruity fragrance and sit on a very healthy, well balanced bush.
Fragrance: Fruity Height: 120cm x 100cm wide
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| The Poet's Wife has large cupped blooms of a lovely rich yellow, which pale as they age and are produced in small clusters.
The fully double blooms contain a wonderfully rich fruity fragrance with hints of lemon. The leaves are a shining healthy colour on a low rounded shrub.
Fragrance: Fruity
Height: 120cm x 120cm wide
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| One of the longest-lasting cut roses, The Children's Rose grows predominantly on single stems, sometimes in clusters, and is a pretty powder pink colour.
It is a robust and densely foliaged plant and will flower prolifically throughout Spring and Autumn. With few thorns, even children can enjoy picking the blooms.
Fragrance: Intense.
Height: to 150cm.
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In your garden this month...
As we mentioned last month, pruning and planting new roses are the main jobs that will keep you busy in wintertime.
Rose plants are dormant and it's the right moment to work on them. On our website, you can find many tutorial videos that we prepared for you.
This month we'd like to explain to you what to do if you want to move and replant an established rose. |
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| When moving a healthy, ‘established’ rose – one that has been thriving for at least two or three years - we suggest the following:
- Dig around the plant, taking out as much of the root ball and its surrounding soil as possible.
- If replacing this rose with another one, it is important to remove around 30 to 40 cms cubed of soil from the area: the bigger the root ball, the more soil needs to be removed.
- At this point, bulk up the area with fresh soil, containing plenty of organic matter, or supplement the area with blood and bone, cow manure or compost.
- The old soil may be reused somewhere else - simply move it to another part of the garden.
- A new, ‘replacement’ rose can then be planted.
If replanting the old ‘established’ rose in a new spot:
- Cut its roots back, and cut out wood to around 20 centimetres in height, pruning back hard. Don’t be afraid of pruning it back hard as it will give the rose every opportunity to establish itself in its new position.
- Plant the rose.
- Again, supplement the soil with a healthy dose of blood and bone, cow manure or compost, and water in well.
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| Did you know we now have a delivery van?
We covered it with one of our beautiful images of roses, to be noticed and recognised by you, and also to check all the coffee stops of Brian while delivering his roses ; )
Yes! Brian loves his coffees. And he now loves driving his new Rose Van!
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If you enjoyed reading this Newsletter, suggest it to your friends and rose lovers around you. We send out our News every 1st day of the month.
If you have a question or a particular subject you want us to write about, please let us know. Send an email to [email protected] and we'll do our best to help you.
Grazie e a presto! Benedetta |
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