| Description | Silene dioica
‘Rollie’s Favorite’ Silene is a compact perennial admired for its masses of vibrant magenta-pink flowers held above mounds of fresh green foliage. Blooming over a long season, it creates a cheerful display that works beautifully in borders, cottage gardens, or containers.
- Pruning: Deadhead spent blooms to prolong flowering.
- Feeding: Apply a balanced fertiliser in spring.
- Size: Grows around 30–45 cm tall and wide.
6" / 14 cm size pot | Correa alba
A popular choice amongst council and parks landscapers due to its set-and-forget nature, the Correa is a attractive, hardy and versatile perennial shrub.
• White star-shaped flowers with rounded, velvety leaves
• Will grow in both full sun or part shade, tolerating harsh Australian soil and weather
• Responds well to pruning, making neat hedges or even native topiary | Rosa hybrid tea 'Perfume Delight Rose'
Perfume Delight Rose is named, rightly so, for it's lovely fragrance. It is a vigorous, upright growing bush with large, well formed blooms of a deep pink. Available as a 3ft standard, 4ft standard and bush rose.
8" pot size.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Rosa banksiae
The Banksia Rose is a tough evergreen climbing rose with soft ruffled yellow flowers which appear in Spring. Like Iceberg Roses, it's prized as a disease resistant and hardy rose. It works well as a groundcover rose or a climber when given a support such as a trellis.
The Banksia rose is an incredibly useful and versatile climber or groundcover as it is low maintenance, thornless and tolerates full sun and part shade.
6"/14cm pot size. | Olympic Torch Rose
The Olympic Torch rose has large white blooms heavily marked with pink and aging to red.
When blooming full form flowers of around 40 petals are produced on a broad spreading and extremely healthy bush.
2ft Standard Rose
Available online ONLY - Not in store. |
| Content | | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging.
Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses right up there with your climbers and weeping varieties, amongst all their beautiful colour, variety and hardy nature there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging. |
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| height x width |
Climber to 3-4m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 70cm
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| conditions |
Very hardy, likes full sun and well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
fences, screens, cover unattractive sheds, pergolas, arbors, rotundas, trellis
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