Plants of the Week

Brilliance Rose

If you love roses then you are definitely going to love this new release from the House of Meilland.
Named Brilliance, this rose is both brilliant by name and by nature. A hybrid tea of immense beauty and style. Its purest white blooms shine like beacons in a continuous and breathtaking display. Highly perfumed, each flower simply bursts with a pleasurable and intense rose and fruit scent. A robust and healthy performer this rose is equally at home in both pot and garden alike. Proudly supporting the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.

To find out how you can purchase your own Brilliance rose, contact a specialist rose nursery or enquire at your local garden centre. This is a very special rose for your garden

Boscobel Rose

Wagner’s Rose Nursery have been a South Australian rose growing institution for over 50 years.

Owner, Brian Wagner is always on the lookout for new, innovative and brilliant garden performing roses to share with the rose loving public.

David Austin roses are known for their beautiful form and exceptional fragrance and the new Boscobel keeps up the David Austin tradition perfectly. Named after Boscobel House the famous hiding place of King Charles II after defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, the rose Boscobel produces continuous masses of Perfectly formed, rich salmon pink with peach blooms which carry and exceptional myrrh fragrance with hints of elderflower, pear and almond. Hardy and healthy, this is a winner.

Head to the Wagner’s Rose Nursery Mail Order website to find out how you can purchase Boscobel and plenty of other brilliant roses.

Rome Beauty Apple

Everyone, it seems, is looking to grow their own produce, and even better when it comes with an interesting history. Take apples for example. The apple tree was perhaps the earliest tree to be cultivated. Originating in Central Asia, apples have been grown for thousands of years. In fact Alexander the Great is credited with finding dwarfed apples in Kazakhstan in 328 BC.

If you like apples with history then Rome Beauty is for you. Introduced in the USA in 1816, Rome Beauty produces the same glossy red, Sharp, Sweet and Aromatic flavoured fruit it did over 200 years ago. An ideal cooking and drying apple, Rome Beauty is a late season producer that does extremely well in warm climates.

To pick up this plant and loads of other great garden performers, simply drop into The Diggers Garden Shop in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.