Kalangadoo, 14th July 2024
Days are getting a little bit longer, and we have just started another important chapter of our busy winter season - the final one, and certainly our favourite: the preparation of the plants to fulfil the thousands of retail orders received through our website since last October.
All plants have been carefully graded and selected, individually labelled and organised in alphabetical order for an easier picking when they'll be boxed and despatched.
In the next few days we'll start delivering the first rose plants, following a chronological order - If you placed your order with us last October or November, for instance, you will be within the first ones to receive your roses; if you place an order now, you will receive your roses around mid-late August.
In any case, there is still time to purchase new roses if you haven't done yet, and you can do it online, or contacting us - Kelly and Olivia will be happy to answer your questions and help you to choose.
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Remove sucker growth from your roses
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We already mentioned the importance of pruning your roses now, during the coldest days of the year – a topic that attracts many advice columns! However, there’s another process that’s also important to do at the same time, and that’s removing rootstock - or sucker growth - from the base of your rose plants.
Most garden roses have been budded onto a vigorous rootstock system. While this is the most effective way of ensuring strong healthy ‘cultivated’ roses, it can occasionally result in suckers also growing from the base of the plant. Unless removed, they will soon rob the cultivated rose from its essential nutrients and eventually take over the whole plant.
Rootstock generally throws out long runner canes from the base of the plant. It’s an easy process to remove them, but it’s not just a matter of cutting them off. You need to dig down to where the sucker starts breaking from the plant. After you removed it by deeply cutting it off, leave the base of the plant exposed for a few months to make sure the sucker doesn't re-shoot; if it does cut it off again harder, otherwise backfill with soil.
To find out how to remove rootstock, head to Brian’s explanation in the video below.
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July 14th is an iconic date for France, commemorating the fall of the Bastille and the start of the French Revolution back in 1789; so, today we want to speak French and say "Vive la France!" with some of its beautiful roses, created by two well-known French rose breeders - Georges Delbard and Meilland.
We grow and sell many of their roses, and these are some of our favourites still in stock.
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France Libre is a brilliant, fiery orange rose that has an inner luminescence of sunny-yellow, making a dramatic impact when planted on masse. With typical Hybrid-tea type blooms, it is ideal planted as a hedge or bright specimen amongst other roses, and a big bunch would create a beautiful vase arrangement. It rewards by flowering continuously from October to May.
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France Libre is a brilliant, fiery orange rose that has an inner luminescence of sunny-yellow, making a dramatic impact when planted on masse. With typical Hybrid-tea type blooms, it is ideal planted as a hedge or bright specimen amongst other roses, and a big bunch would create a beautiful vase arrangement. It rewards by flowering continuously from October to May.
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Nahema is a stunning climbing rose from the Delbard collection, renowned for its incredible beauty and versatility. Being nearly thornless, it offers a perfect solution for high traffic areas including archways and entrances. Its fragrance has an intense fruity scent inspiring a renowned perfume in the famous Guerlain range. The pretty pale, China pink blooms of this plant bloom profusely from October to May. One of Brian's favourite!
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Nahema is a stunning climbing rose from the Delbard collection, renowned for its incredible beauty and versatility. Being nearly thornless, it offers a perfect solution for high traffic areas including archways and entrances. Its fragrance has an intense fruity scent inspiring a renowned perfume in the famous Guerlain range. The pretty pale, China pink blooms of this plant bloom profusely from October to May. One of Brian's favourite!
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Red Intuition is an award-winning rose of bright scarlet and cardinal red striped together across classic Hybrid Tea blooms bursting with petals. This rose has a vigorous growth habit, flowering throughout Spring into late Autumn. With its long stems, a bunch makes an ideal vase arrangement that lasts many days.
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Red Intuition is an award-winning rose of bright scarlet and cardinal red striped together across classic Hybrid Tea blooms bursting with petals. This rose has a vigorous growth habit, flowering throughout Spring into late Autumn. With its long stems, a bunch makes an ideal vase arrangement that lasts many days.
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Francis Meilland (Father of Peace)
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Named to honour the breeder of the world's favourite rose - Peace, Francis Meilland is exceptional. Each perfectly formed, high centred, soft shell pink flower is petal filled and exquisitely perfumed with a rich fruit & citrus scent. Its beauty is matched by its robustness - Father of Peace has extraordinary disease resistance, almost unheard of in a hybrid tea. Ideal in pot or ground alike.
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Francis Meilland (Father of Peace)
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Named to honour the breeder of the world's favourite rose - Peace, Francis Meilland is exceptional. Each perfectly formed, high centred, soft shell pink flower is petal filled and exquisitely perfumed with a rich fruit & citrus scent. Its beauty is matched by its robustness - Father of Peace has extraordinary disease resistance, almost unheard of in a hybrid tea. Ideal in pot or ground alike.
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A very vigorous floribunda with generous flowering, incredible fragrance and great disease resistance, from multi awarded French breeder Delbard. Bienvenue (meaning Welcome in French) produces delicate pink blooms with an old fashioned, ruffled appearance. Perfect to cut and enjoy inside with the intense perfume of lemon, basil, rose and ivy. It's a 2024 New Release.
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A very vigorous floribunda with generous flowering, incredible fragrance and great disease resistance, from multi awarded French breeder Delbard. Bienvenue (meaning Welcome in French) produces delicate pink blooms with an old fashioned, ruffled appearance. Perfect to cut and enjoy inside with the intense perfume of lemon, basil, rose and ivy. It's a 2024 New Release.
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Papi Delbard with its huge old world double cupped blooms in warm tones of yellow, orange and apricot celebrates the founding patriarch of the famous Delbard collection. It's a vigorous and very fragrant climbing rose that grows up to 3 meters tall. Very hardy and disease resistant, it flowers from October to May.
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Papi Delbard with its huge old world double cupped blooms in warm tones of yellow, orange and apricot celebrates the founding patriarch of the famous Delbard collection. It's a vigorous and very fragrant climbing rose that grows up to 3 meters tall. Very hardy and disease resistant, it flowers from October to May.
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In 1963, Antoine Meilland had the honour of baptizing a large fragrant red rose that everyone has known since under the name Papa Meilland. Fifty years later, her great-grandchildren decided to give her a new rose, more resistant and more floriferous, of a velvety red with a powerful fragrance mixing accents of geranium, carnation and white peach.
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In 1963, Antoine Meilland had the honour of baptizing a large fragrant red rose that everyone has known since under the name Papa Meilland. Fifty years later, her great-grandchildren decided to give her a new rose, more resistant and more floriferous, of a velvety red with a powerful fragrance mixing accents of geranium, carnation and white peach.
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From Delbard's Parfum Collection, Blue Emotion has large highly attractive lilac-mauve blooms, with well-shaped bearing scalloped petals. Strong full double flowers are wonderfully fragrant, winning 4 top awards around the world for its strong sweet aroma. This aptly named "Blue Rose" is highly disease resistant; a large and strong growing bushy plant with shiny glossy leaves, that will perform well in any garden.
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From Delbard's Parfum Collection, Blue Emotion has large highly attractive lilac-mauve blooms, with well-shaped bearing scalloped petals. Strong full double flowers are wonderfully fragrant, winning 4 top awards around the world for its strong sweet aroma. This aptly named "Blue Rose" is highly disease resistant; a large and strong growing bushy plant with shiny glossy leaves, that will perform well in any garden.
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This beauty is both petal and fragrance filled. Huge luminous apricot pink, quartered blooms smother the bush, creating a glowing garden beacon. Mademoiselle Meilland is hardy and healthy, it’ll look great planted singly or in a group, pot or ground. Fragrance: Strong damask and fruity scent.
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This beauty is both petal and fragrance filled. Huge luminous apricot pink, quartered blooms smother the bush, creating a glowing garden beacon. Mademoiselle Meilland is hardy and healthy, it’ll look great planted singly or in a group, pot or ground. Fragrance: Strong damask and fruity scent.
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Pierre de Ronsard in one of the most well-known climbing roses, in creamy white deepening into gorgeous pink in the centre with full cupped blooms packed with petals. It produces an abundance of flowers over the growing season and is a particularly healthy and disease resistant plant.
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Pierre de Ronsard in one of the most well-known climbing roses, in creamy white deepening into gorgeous pink in the centre with full cupped blooms packed with petals. It produces an abundance of flowers over the growing season and is a particularly healthy and disease resistant plant.
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Office opening hours: Monday to Thursday, from 9am to 3pm Friday, from 9am to 1pm Closed on public holidays and weekends.
The nursery will be closed to public in wintertime, as we are busy digging and preparing your orders.
Contact us: ph 08 87393321 [email protected]
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Grazie e a presto! Benedetta and the Team at Wagner's
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