Order these beautiful roses now as bare-rooted plants for a spectacular summer with intoxicating perfumes from your stunning blooms.
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Guy savoy
This heat-loving climber has large, loose, double cerise blooms with bright red splashes that give off a subtle fragrance of orange, peach and vanilla. It grows to 300cm.
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Guy Savoy bare-rooted roses
Fearless
The leathery foliage tolerates hot summers and supports large, intensely orange blooms produced almost year-round. The perfume is sweet and light. This award-winning hybrid tea grows to 150cm.
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Fearless bare-rooted roses
Souvenir de Louis Amade
An old-world charmer with double-cup lavender-pink buds that open to bright pink blooms with a rich scent. It grows to 120cm and produces blooms to the ground.
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Best Friend
A strong, sweet fragrance comes from these blooms in deep, rich, plum-pink tones. Growing to 150cm, it has large, lush foliage. Named by the RSPCA for the love our animals give us.
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Firefighter
Rich, velvety red blooms sit on elegant, strong, almost thornless stems, making it ideal for the garden or vase. Named for our brave firefighters, this hybrid tea produces an intense, old-rose perfume and grows to 160cm.
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Mariangela
This award-winning hybrid tea has large flowers with pure white petals and a strong fragrance. Large, bright green leaves and an upright growth to 100cm make it ideal for cut flowers.
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Mariangela bare-rooted roses
Vanessa Bell
Clusters of pink-tinged buds open to pale yellow blooms that fade to white at the edges with a rich yellow eye. It forms a bushy, upright shrub to 110cm with a green tea, lemon and honey perfume.
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Blue Emotion
The large, lilac-mauve blooms have scalloped petals that swirl with colour and a sweet, strong fragrance. This award-winner grows to 150cm.
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Nahema
A climber to 300cm, pale pink blooms emerge profusely from October to May. Nearly thornless, it’s ideal for high-traffic areas. Its sweet, fruity fragrance inspired a Guerlain perfume.
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Nahema bare-rooted roses
Bruce’s Dream
Named after awardwinning Australian breeder Bruce Brundrett – he considered it one of his best creations – the yellow-apricot blooms fade to cream as they produce a delicate perfume. Grows to 120cm, with large, dark green foliage.
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Ordering details
- Freight per order $30.
- Extra WA and Tasmania quarantine surcharge per order, $25 including GST.
- Offer closes 31 August, except for WA and Tasmania where orders close 31 July, to allow for quarantine time.
- Orders dispatched between mid-July and late-August.
How to plant bare-rooted roses
- The dormant roses are shipped bare-rooted and with no foliage, so they look like prickly sticks.
- When they arrive, soak the roots immediately in a bucket or sink of water for up to 24 hours.
- Prune roots back by about a third.
- Dig a hole 30cm wide by 25cm deep and create a mound at the base of the hole.
- Spread roots over and around the mound, then water the ‘moat’.
- Put a stake in now so you avoid damaging roots later, then cover with soil.
- Water soil thoroughly then cover with mulch.
- Feed in spring as sap begins to move and buds start to form.
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