Garden photo courtesy of billy teabag

November 2015 - The Sweet Alyssum is cleared and the garden is top-dressed with manure and mulched with shredded lupin in preparation for summer. The roses are regularly weeded and the spent blooms are trimmed by members of Heritage Roses in Australia and City of Swan gardeners.

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Garden photo courtesy of billy teabag

April 2016 - Planting rare roses sourced from the HRIA Repository at Renmark. City of Swan horticulturists: the greatest asset a public rose garden can have - the safe hands of good gardeners who know how to care for heritage roses.

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Garden photo courtesy of billy teabag

October 2015 and the roses are making excellent new growth.

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Garden photo courtesy of billy teabag

April 2016 - planting some special roses obtained thanks to a HRIA David Ruston grant, and the generous assistance of a number of HRIA members in South Australia who collected budwood of rare varieties from the Repository at Rustons Roses in Renmark and in private SA gardens, and arranged for the rigorous quarantine process required to get it over the border to WA. Once in Western Australia, Reudi Etter budded these roses onto Fortuniana for us - a difficult task because the required fumigation, along with unaccountable postal delays meant the budwood was desiccated and difficult to work with. Seen here is a member of the City of Swan Horticultural Team whose work and dedication is an inspiration.

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