PRICING

Prices for the next two seasons at least, will remain at current rates. 16cm pots will cost $16.50ea. and 20cm pots will cost $22.00ea. Plants in larger containers will cost from $27.50ea., depending on the size of the container and the maturity of the plant.

END OF SEASON SALE

Next season’s roses will start to appear in the nursery from late June. Consequently, room must be made for them. To do that, all current potted nursery stock will be reduced in price by 33% until the end of August, 2008. Unfortunately this offer is only available to customers calling at the nursery, as we are unable to dispatch potted plants, although local delivery within the Southern Highlands and surrounds can be arranged for a small charge.

NATIONAL ROSE SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA ROSE CHAMPIONSHIPS AUSTRALIA 2009 - KIAMA NSW

This year, the Annual General Meeting of the National Rose Society of Australia and the associated Rose Show, which will incorporate the Australian Rose Championships, will be held in the brand new pavilion at the show grounds in Kiama, New South Wales, on the weekend of 24th and 25th October.
It will be hosted by the Illawarra region of the Rose Society of New South Wales Inc. This is a must for all rose lovers and rose society members from all states and overseas. Full programmes and registration forms are available from state rose society secretaries and on line at www.nsw.rose.org.au
We hope to see you there.

FERTILIZERS

Roses and Friends use and recommend the Neutrog products ‘Rapid Raiser’, for the beginning of season boost, ‘Sudden Impact for Roses’, as the year round fertilizer, and ‘Seamungus’, as a soil conditioner and plant starter. Visit www.neutrog.com.au for further information on all these products. We also use, recommend, and are agents for ‘Healthy Earth Plant Spray’, from Healthy Earth Pty Ltd, a combined foliar food and fungicide. Contact us for more details.

HELP!

From time to time we will post pictures of re-named old roses (RORs) on this page, for you to help us try and determine their original identities.

Below are four photographs of ‘Dettmann #6”, an ROR that we are sure is a pernetiana from the man himself, Joseph Pernet-Ducher, possibly brought to Australia by Alister Clark between the wars for use in his rose breeding programme. It was found growing in the Dettmann family garden by John Nieuwesteeg during one of his Alister Clark rose-hunting trips. It is tall and spreading, thorny, and relatively sparsely foliated; the typical early pernetiana look. The buds are long, pointed and apricot-orange. The flowers are paler, open, cupped and fragrant.

If anybody has any idea at all what the identity of this rose is, please let us know. As fanatical collectors of Joseph Pernet-Ducher and his roses, we have it in our collection, but would love to give it its original name.

A new set of pictures will appear in November/December, and thank you to everyone who emailed suggestions to us.