| Description | The Ian Thorpe Rose
The Ian Thorpe rose was selected by and named after one of Australia's greatest swimming heroes. The rose has a terracotta colouring that makes it a true novelty for the garden.
This rose has a light rose scent and shiny dark bronze green foliage has good disease tolerance.
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Alstroemeria hybrida
Tamara Alstroemeria is extremely compact making them ideal for pots and containers. They are drought-hardy and light frost tolerant, and flower for many months of the year. They also make very long-lasting cut flowers so they are perfect for vases. Prefers full sun to part shade position in well drained soil. | |
| 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. | | |
