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Please note once despatched, your delivery may take 1-3 days due to the high volume with the couriers. Your plants will be fine during this time.
Full plant information & availability is shown online.
The nursery is now open to the public between 10am and 4pm. Please follow instructions on site, card payments only, no cash. Click and collect is also available.
THE CAFE & GARDENS ARE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Last updated 14/05/20 10:00.
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Sorry, you cannot proceed to the checkout right now as we are having to limit the number of orders we can process each hour. Your basket will be saved for you - we ask that you please try to place your order later, and thank you for your patienceROSA
Commonly known as Rose
Please note that Roses are normally ONLY despatched as bare rooted plants from NOVEMBER to FEBRUARY and thereafter in pots
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Deciduous
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Semi-evergreen - Keeps some of its foliage all year, and will drop some leaves as well.
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Climber - Some of these climbing plants will need trellis or wire supports if grown on walls or fences. Other grow aerial roots and are self-clinging
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Full sun -
Additional Features - Good to know - - grown for attractive, often very fragrant flowers and fruits (hips). HYBRID TEAS - remontant (repeat flowering), free-branching bush roses of upright or bushy habit with, usually, thorny stems. Excellent for formal beds and borders and as cut flowers. FLORIBUNDA (Cluster-flowered bush) - remontant, free-branching bush roses of upright or bushy habit, usually with prickly stems and glossy dark-green leaves. Flowers are single to double, sometimes scented, and usually in clusters. Suitable for borders . Both these types make good hedges. CLIMBER - often vigorous roses with thorny, arching, stiff stems. Flowers can be single or in clusters, often scented. Some bloom in summer only(once-flowering) , others are repeat-flowering. RAMBLER - a diverse group of vigorous roses with long, arching stems and dense foliage. Flowers can be single or double and are borne in clusters, mainly in summer. Suitable for training over fences, walls and pergolas or through trees. SHRUB ROSES - initially the crosses of species roses and modern bush roses. Generally vigorous with distinctive growth habit. Flowers have varied forms, their beauty being in their massed effect. Most are strongly scented and require little attention. Rugosas have delicious fragrances, repeat well, bear large hips and are extremely disease resistant. SPECIES and their hybrids include elegant forms, dainty foliage and simple flowers followed by hips in a variety shapes and colours and, again , most are completely trouble free. -
Pests & Diseases - aphids, leafhoppers, red spider mites, caterpillars, scale insects, sawfly larva. Black spot, rust, powdery mildew, die-back, canker, crown gall, honey fungus, soil sickness, viruses, downy mildew. -
Place of origin - Asia, Europe, northern Africa, North America. -
Soil Conditions - Alkaline / Chalk loving -
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Fertile moist well-drained soil - humus-rich. Newly-planted roses will not thrive in old rose beds. Renew soil to 30cm(12in) deep
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Wildlife - Bee friendly -
Buy Varieties of ROSA
ROSA 'American Pillar' >
Commonly known as: Rose.
Single cupped carmine-red flowers. Vigorous grower
ROSA banksiae 'Alba Plena' >
Commonly known as: Banksian rose.
Large double white flowers which are delicately fragrant
ROSA banksiae 'Lutea' >
Commonly known as: Yellow Banksian rose.
Clusters of double primrose yellow flowers. Although reasonably hardy this thornless species does make an excellent conservatory plant
ROSA filipes 'Kiftsgate' >
Commonly known as: Kiftsgate rose.
Large clusters of single white flowers
ROSA 'Warm Welcome' >
Commonly known as: Rose.
Miniature climber with orange-red semi-double flowers
ROSA gallica 'Versicolor' >
Commonly known as: Rose.
('Rosa Mundi') - semi-double rose-red, striped white with the odd pure red flower
ROSA 'Marchesa Boccella' >
Commonly known as: Rose.
(syn. 'Jacques Cartier') - double scented rose flowers
