My 2013 Purchases

My 2013 Purchases today!

BLACK CAVIAR
ST. PATRICK
OKLAHOMA
THE R S L ROSE

Still trying to source Louis XIV, blue for you & ROUTE 66 as Treloars do not sell these

My first order this morning!

Black Caviar
Day Breaker
Augusta Luise
more Fragrant Clouds
another Firefighter
Red Cross

YES!! Black Caviar I am so excited for. Augusta Luise IS AMAZING! Give it a good year or so to establish but loves full sun and after all this rain mine is almost as tall as me and very bushy! It has to be one of my favourites.

Well done there Rosy and Betsy , still got to put the rest of my order in yet , but thats three of us with Black Caviar , will be interesting ...

I hope it's a good one after all the excitement .. Lol

nice one rosy, looking forward to their progress

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Tania Verstak (Miss Australia 1961)

Nope, not an Australian rose. It is one from Knight's stable of clients - Guillot, Harkness, Cocker, etc. I'm speculating that it's a Guillot Generosa, but everyone else can dismiss that as wild rumour-mongering.

What's with the sudden interest in the hithertofore unheard of (almost)Tania? Ozeboy has one, too.

Betsy, I think I can answer your about Tania, Doug(Ausrose) is for Oz bred roses and that is what he is referring to I think.
Doug as for the name of a rose like "Black Caviar" it is pure marketing. As was "Tania Verstak" back in 61, but not to the extremes of today, I guess you could call it getting on the "bandwagon".
In the terms of "marketing" I think it is now called "value adding" to product.

With respect to the Tania Verstak rose my interest is a personal one as in 1961 I was in my final year as a student at high school and the crowning of Tania Verstak as the first migrant Australian was well publicised and obviously made an impression on me. I first came across the rose in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens in 2008 and later found it listed in Thomas for Roses catalogue. Last week I gave a talk on Australian bred roses to the Gold Coast Rose Society and the I mentioned the rose when I spoke of Queenslander Fred Armbrust and the 16 roses he bred.

Childhood sweetheart then Doug

I wish. However I must have a thing about beauty queens as my wife is a former Miss South Africa.