Kalangadoo, 1st September 2024
Thank you! For following our journey and supporting our family business.
With today, we finish our big End of Winter Sale, and we finally close our bare root season. You have time until midnight to order your discounted bare root roses - There are still beautiful varieties in stock, including some 60 and 90cm standards, so we've decided to extend our Sale for few more days and end it tonight.
And from tomorrow, we'll finally be able to slow down, focus on other jobs needed in the field, and start organising the new catalogue and new releases for next year, which is always an exciting part of our work.
Now that you have planted your new roses, it's time to check if everything works well in your garden and get ready for the hot season. Below you'll find Brian's tips for a good start of the growing season.
Next month, we'll put back online our Potted Roses' Collection and our 2025 Releases - Stay tuned for further news and updates!
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Let's celebrate Father's Day with a very special rose dedicated to the most important men in our lives - Dear Father. Until midnight tonight, this variety is 30% off - discount is automatically applied at check-out. If ordered now, it will be posted tomorrow.
If you cannot wait few more days, we also have a big range of Gift Vouchers, that can be used anytime online or at the nursery, for bare root plants next year or potted roses in the next few weeks.
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Dear Father is the red that Australians love, just like our fathers. Deep, velvety, bright and long-lasting: just right! Better yet, that colour comes in great clusters of ruffled flowers showing off against the backdrop of glossy dark red-green leaves. The bushy full plant could be used as a flowerful hedge, a showy mass planting or just by itself in a big pot. A red beacon for a Dear Father.
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Dear Father is the red that Australians love, just like our fathers. Deep, velvety, bright and long-lasting: just right! Better yet, that colour comes in great clusters of ruffled flowers showing off against the backdrop of glossy dark red-green leaves. The bushy full plant could be used as a flowerful hedge, a showy mass planting or just by itself in a big pot. A red beacon for a Dear Father.
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Is your garden ready for warm weather?
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Before the warm weather arrives it’s a good idea to test all the irrigation points in your rose garden to ensure they aren’t blocked with soil, bugs or calcium buildup. With plants still young and fewer leaves on the bushes, it's easier to do a visual system check and to replace or lay out new polypipe and sprays around the plants.
Roses require a deep soaking weekly in the warm months and there are a couple of systems we recommend.
- Drip systems offer the chance of placing a small drip near the root system of the roses and is highly effective in delivering water directly to the roses. While it delivers to the roses, it may not adequately water any other plants close to the roses such as groundcovers or perennials. Multiple lines – 3 or 4 so that you water the whole area - would be better.
- Overhead spray system is
another good option – choose a larger style sprinkler that will deliver raindrop size water, will reach further and water the whole bed. The drawback is that the water spray will fall on the rose plants and leaves, but by watering first thing in the morning it will minimise the chance of them developing fungal diseases. At Wagner’s we overhead the whole nursery.
It’s important that whatever system you choose, enough water needs to get to the plant – 24 hours after a deep soak, dig a spades height into the soil near the rose to ensure it is moist and if not, keep watering!
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Mulching - Colour matters
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Mulching your garden bed will protect the roots and retain moisture in hot days, and now it's the right time to do it. - We recommend a coarse and dark coloured mulch like lucerne, bean or pea straw, or a commercial supermulch called WhoFlungDung.
- Do not use sugar cane mulch as its colour will reflect light and heat onto your rose.
- Fine mulches such as sawdust or woodchips can have a drying effect and are
often detrimental to the plants.
- Mulch around the roses only when the plant is established and has a canopy of leaves.
- Keep the mulch 10cm away from the cane, so that water can access the root system. We recommend a solid soaking prior to laying the mulch followed by a good watering afterwards to bed it down.
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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 re-open to public in October.
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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