2 Large-Flowered Roses

You will receive the large-flowered roses from us with bare roots. Soak the roots overnight in a bucket of lukewarm water. Prepare a large planting hole for each rose, loosen the soil and improve it with compost and granulated cow manure. Spread the roots of the roses, and place them at the correct depth. This means that the frost sensitive graft union (the thickening where the branches form) should be about 5 cm beneath the soil. Fill the planting holes with the improved soil, press firmly with your foot and water generously. The best planting time for bare rooted roses is October, pot grown roses can be planted all year round.

These large flowered roses are fantastic as cut flowers, but both look splendid in the garden border. The special colours blend well with other roses and also with lavender.

Rosa ‘Pullman Orient Express’ and ‘Gallivarda’® are hybrid tea roses with very large multi-coloured, fragrant flowers. These bushes are very healthy and vigorous flowering, providing lots and lots of beautiful cut flowers for the home!

Rosa ‘Pullman Orient Express’ and ‘Gallivarda’® need a lot of food for an abundance of flowers, therefore it is important to fertilize regularly. In winter put granulated cow manure around the base of the bushes. Early spring apply a mixed organic fertilizer or bone meal and in July use a special rose fertilizer. Look on the package for the correct dosage.

They should be pruned every spring. This is actually very simple: in March prune the branches back to within 3 to 5 eyes (buds). Leave about five big branches per bush. The roses you receive from us have already been pruned, so you do not have to prune for another eighteen months. In the summer remove any ‘wild shoots’ that can grow from the trunk or the roots. You can identify a wild shoot by the many thorns and the seven small leaves (leaflets).