Deep watering is the best answer

Deep watering is the key to protecting your roses from extreme heat.  

The day before a hot day, make sure you 'deep water' your roses.  This involves putting a sprinkler on your garden bed for 2 hours to allow a slow soak of water to reach 30 - 40cm into the ground, where the root system is.  

Don't worry about getting the leaves wet - the rose accepts hydration through the leaves as well as the root system.  

If unfortunately, you do receive hot north winds and it has crisped the new foliage, wait until the hot day(s) has passed and then trim off the burnt leaves and with deep watering once or twice a week, it will recover.   

If you have roses in pots, water everyday throughout summer. 

Best roses to display

All roses can be cut and brought inside to display in a vase, but here are a few of our favourites that will look great for at least 5 - 7 days on your table.

Pink Intuition

Red Intuition

The Children’s Rose*

Best Friend*

Heaven Scent*

Flamingo*

Pope John Paul II*

Father of Peace*

Ashram*

Coeur de Neige*

Our Vanilla

The Wedding Rose*

Peter Frankenfeld*

Mr Lincoln*

Spirit of Peace*

St Patrick*

Firefighter*

Per-fyoom Perfume*

Tuscan Sun*

Princess de Monaco

Elle*

Double Delight*

(* Indicates the rose has scent)

Tips on cutting your roses

There are a few things you can do to help your roses last longer in a vase:

- The day before cutting, deeply water the rose bush

- Cut the flowers preferably in the morning

- Cut the blooms that are in bud form.  Make sure the bud is cracked and the sepals are pulled back

- Once cut, immediately put into a bucket of water and have the water up to the rose neck.  Bring the bucket of roses inside and leave in a cool place

- Prepare your vase: fill with water and add sugar (1L = 1 tablespoon).  Stir and dissolve.  

- Add 1 drop of bleach per Litre to stop bacteria breeding

- Pick the roses from the bucket, re-snip the end on an angle, strip leaves that would sit under the water line and arrange as you like it

- Place the vase out of direct sunlight and change the water every day; you can re-cut the stems to help the take up water

Enjoy!

"Last Chance Roses" are selling out fast

Don't forget to check our "Last Chance" collection! You could find something really special that won't be available any longer.

For different reasons, this year we had to delete from our list several varieties - many of these from David Austin collection. As we still have some plants in the field for these discontinued varieties, they will be sold online until stock lasts and then permanently removed from our catalogue.

Our "Last Chance" collection will give you the opportunity to have these varieties before they disappear from the Australian market. 

So, what are you waiting for? Have a look at our collection!

We are sure you'll find something special for your garden.