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Hello dear rose friends … yes, a gloriously stunning Autumn is now ended and Winter is with us for the next three months … time to wrap yourself up and provided your roses have finished flowering and you don’t live in the cold zones, you can sharpen your secateurs and get into the garden for rose pruning. Remember, there is no race with the pruning – you might consider doing a ROSE PRUNING DEMONSTRATION with us before you start hacking away at your roses.
Here are a few facts about learning … if I was to tell you in this Rose Rambler how to prune your roses, by the time you get out into the garden tomorrow, you will only remember 10% of what I have written about rose pruning. If you read my information and then start chatting with somebody about pruning, how to do it, when to do it and all the equipment you need, your memory will jump to 50% – you’ll be ‘half an expert pruner’ … that’s OK and your roses will bloom again in Spring.
However, if you join a discussion group, practise by doing and immediately use what you are learning, you will retain 90% of the information you have received – it all makes sense to me that you should BOOK NOW to come along to one of our pruning demonstrations … treat yourself and your roses by learning how to be a 90% expert pruner! It is IMPERATIVE that you bring your rose pruning equipment with you to the rose pruning demonstrations … we will show you how to sharpen and maintain your tools and you can use your clean and sharpened secateurs under our watchful guidance.
Each ROSE PRUNING DEMONSTRATION is limited to 10 attendees per session so that you can gain the maximum experience – allow at least two hours per session and then stick around for morning/afternoon tea. The dates are as follows:
SATURDAY, 1st JUNE – 2.00 pm
SUNDAY, 2nd JUNE – 10.00 am
FRIDAY, 7th AND MONDAY 10th (PUBLIC HOLIDAY) – 1.00pm
SUNDAY, 16th JUNE – 11.00 am
SATURDAY, 22nd JUNE – 1.00pm
The cost is $25.00 per person and you are welcome to bring your children free of charge – they can run and play while you learn or we will offer them a sharp pair of secateurs and they can prune our roses and be occupied while you are learning … giggle! We promise you a great day out!!
If you belong to a Garden/Probus Club and you can organise a group of between 4-8 (one or two comfortable car loads), we will conduct a special ROSE PRUNING DEMONSTRATION on a day which suits your group – booking is absolutely essential and can be on any day other than the designated dates listed above.
NEW SEASON / WINTER / BARE-ROOTED ROSES … Yes, they’re nearly here and let me give a brief explanation of why we don’t have our new season / Winter / bare-rooted roses as early as you see them in all the chain stores … it’s been a very mild Autumn and in rose gardens which haven’t been affected by frost, the roses are blooming incessantly … the same is happening in the paddock where the roses are grown!
To pull those flowering roses out of the ground would cause them immense grief … they MUST have time to defoliate naturally and harden before lifting – that is now happening! Within the next few weeks, the roses will be here at the Silkies Rose Farm and we will be contacting you as soon as your order is processed and ready for collection or posting! We believe in letting Nature take her course – as with all aspects of gardening, every season is different and patience is a virtue!!!
USING THE AUTUMN LEAVES … If you like to rake the Autumn leaves please don’t pile them up and burn them! Run the mower (with catcher on) over the fallen leaves and mulch your rose garden with them – the lawn clippings that come with the leaves will add nitrogen to the rose garden too.
DONT’ CRY BECAUSE IT’S OVER … SMILE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED!
Cheers from Diana, Graham, Dingo Bonnie and chooks at SILKIES ROSE FARM, CLONBINANE
SILKIES ROSE FARM, CLONBINANE
OPEN FRIDAY, SATURDAY,SUNDAY, MONDAY
9.00 am – 4.30 pm