DFB's Greenthumb Project

[Citroënbender]

Has Cinderella left her slipper in the front right corner of your tray there?

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Has Cinderella left her slipper in the front right corner of your tray there?

Sadly no, just two pairs of gloves.

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Winter time equals bare rooted roses. The last two days I have been unpacking, sorting, labeling and storing a large supply of roses ready for customers to plant in their gardens.







Combine strong demand and Covid, most of these roses are pre-sold. For some reason, people want to plant roses again. Three years ago we were reducing or supply, now we can't get enough. Swings and roundabouts.

[danzvtil]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

Winter time equals bare rooted roses. The last two days I have been unpacking, sorting, labeling and storing a large supply of roses ready for customers to plant in their gardens.

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Combine strong demand and Covid, most of these roses are pre-sold. For some reason, people want to plant roses again. Three years ago we were reducing or supply, now we can't get enough. Swings and roundabouts.

Same here in SA, last year only grandmas bought bare root roses, this year everyone is. Covid has changed mindsets all over the place.
A colleague of mine works at a rose grower, she was employed 18hrs part time, and is now doing 50+ hrs a week to keep up.

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This Buddha statue looks at home surrounded by Snow Drops.

[Work Horse]

Budda is surrounded by Snow flakes Leucojum aestivum

Snow drops Galanthus nivalis are a little different and much harder to grow.

Mum was showing me a few she managed to get up on the weekend and schooling me on the difference.

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One of my Favorite native plants, Thryptomene 'F.C. Payne'.



This winter/spring flowering low shrub can grow up to 1 mt in height in a sunny to partly shaded position. Thryptomene is exceptionally easy to grow, only requiring a light prune after flowering and not much more. When in flower, this showy plant never stays on the shelf for long in the nursery!

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by danzvtil

Same here in SA, last year only grandmas bought bare root roses, this year everyone is. Covid has changed mindsets all over the place.
A colleague of mine works at a rose grower, she was employed 18hrs part time, and is now doing 50+ hrs a week to keep up.

I don't know why but Roses have always been a favourite in country Victoria, both private garden and public.
Just about every small town has a huge rose gardens on display by the local council within a botanical garden.
Benalla is one of the best public rose garden displays I've ever seen.
The towns nickname is Rose city.

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Originally Posted by roKWiz

I don't know why but Roses have always been a favourite in country Victoria, both private garden and public.
Just about every small town has a huge rose gardens on display by the local council within a botanical garden.
Benalla is one of the best public rose garden displays I've ever seen.
The towns nickname is Rose city.

Ha ha, I was "trained" to prune roses at the Benalla rose gardens. I say "trained" tongue in cheek as I knew how to prune roses before I was 15, I think I actually taught that class more than the instructor did.

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Grevillea 'Fireworks'.



Another small native shrub in flower now. Unlike some Grevillea's, this variety features softer blue-tinged foliage with the plant reaching about 1 mt at maturity. But it's the flowers that are draw card for this plant, vivid bright red and yellow blooms are produced from autumn to spring, attracting native bird life and the human eye alike.