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    Carrots in Australia (production)
    1 Nov 2011 - 01:17 by Anonymous

    by Allan McKay, Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
    (Updated April 2007)

    The Edible Garden
    Vegetable
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  • Carrots
    1 Nov 2011 - 01:13 by Anonymous

    Soil Temperature 10 to 30c

    Likes: Beans, Chives, Coriander, Cucumber, Leeks, Lettuce, Lovage, Marjoram, Onion, Pea, Radish, Rosemary, Sage
    Dislikes: Other root crops, dill - fennel

    Germination: 3 weeks
    Harvest: 12+ Weeks
    Soil: Friable, free of stones retains moisture but not too wet!!
    Sun: Full to partial shade

    Carrots are easy to grow with a few simple rules they dislike freshly fertilized soil and need a loose soil otherwise forking will be an issue.

    The Edible Garden
    Vegetable
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  • Cimmaron
    An Ancient Lineage
    31 Oct 2011 - 18:37 by Cimmaron

    Species roses fall into five distinct groups: Cinnamomeae, Caninae, Synstylae, Pimpinellifoliae and Carolinae. Almost all the species roses fall into one of these categories.

    Cinnamomeae (Cassiorhodon)

    The Roses
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    Glossary of Botanical Terms
    31 Oct 2011 - 18:22 by Cimmaron

    Suffixes-

    -acea: resembling

    -antha: flowered

    -carpa: fruit

    -cola: an inhabitant of

    -ensis: indicates country of origin,place of growth or habitat

    -fera: bearing something,
    The Roses
    Rose
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    Ron Bell
    31 Oct 2011 - 17:33 by Cimmaron

    Ron Bell was instrumental in the foundation of the Australian Rose Breeder s Association. He is also very active within the Rose Society of Victoria. In 1979 he received the T.A. Stewart Memorial Award.

    His breeding program has concentrated on hybrid teas of exhibition type.

    April Hamer: 1983 Hybrid Tea. Silver to rose pink blooms, deepening with age, with a good fragrance. Of exhibition standard. A free-flowering bush with good disease resistance.

    The Roses
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    Georger Dawson
    31 Oct 2011 - 17:18 by Cimmaron

    George Dawson was Australia’s most prolific breeder of modern hybrid tea roses. After retiring from his market garden at Ferntree Gully, he moved to Bunyip where he concentrated on his rose breeding program, his main objectives being good colour and perfume. At his peak, he is said to have sowed some 20,000 seeds in a season, which should certainly have provided several thousand seedlings. Of these hopefuls, those few which he considered the best would eventually be released, although his garden contained many more seedlings that were quite beautiful but never shown.

    The Roses
    Rose, Rose breeder
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    Frank Riethmuller
    31 Oct 2011 - 17:12 by Cimmaron

    Although a comparatively recent hybridist, Frank Riethmuller of Sydney, bred a number of fine roses which are very much in the style of some forty years earlier. Whilst perhaps best know for the ever popular Titian, his series of polyanthas bred in the late 1950’s are his most distinctive contribution to Australian rose-breeding. When used together, these make an excellent, informal and multi-coloured hedge of approximately one metre in height. He was rewarded with the T.A. Steward Memorial Award in 1959.

    The Roses
    Rose, Rose, Rose breeder
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  • Alister Clark
    31 Oct 2011 - 17:00 by Anonymous

    Alister Clark is a man whose name you may recognize less than his floral creations. This is a sad testament to the passage of time, as in his lifetime he was known and loved by many. Rose breeder Sam McGredy has said that Alister Clark was a rose breeder ahead of his time.

    Alister Clark's influence as a rosarian is inestimable

    The Roses
    Alister Clark, Hybrid, Rose, Roses, Semi-double
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  • Cimmaron
    Australian Rose Breeders
    31 Oct 2011 - 16:58 by Cimmaron

    Mrs Fitzhardinge of New South Wales:

    Some fine climbers and early hybrid tea bushes were bred by Mrs Fitzhardinge during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Unfortunately only a couple appear to have survived.

    Lubra: 1938 Hybrid Tea. ( OpheliaCl x Blackboy seedling.) Deep crimson blooms of fully-double high-pointed style. Fragrant. A free-flowering, moderately-sized bush.

    The Roses
    Bush, Hybrid, hybridizer, Rose, Rose breeder
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  • Cimmaron
    Roses Organically
    31 Oct 2011 - 16:09 by Cimmaron

    Roses Naturally

    The Roses
    Aphids, Insects, Lacewings, Organic, Pests, Predators, Rose, Spider
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