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The Iceberg rose - Australias most popular rose

Rose Notes & Interesting Facts


Roses are amongst the best drought tolerant plants for your garden once they are established.

All plants need regular watering when they are first planted out, but after their first season, roses are very tough.

Do you have roses in your garden?

Here are some notes for your rose diary

  • to help you with rose care
  • to amuse and inform you about a favourite flower

Combine with Miracle-GroŽ

Miracle-GroŽ Rose Plant FoodDo your Roses need an extra boost?

Give your plants an occasional extra boost with Miracle-GroŽ Rose Plant Food.

Did you know?

Promote rose health

Feed your roses with OsmocoteŽ PLUS Roses Superfeeder.

Boost flowering with regular 7-14 day applications of a water-soluble fertiliser like Miracle-GroŽ Rose Plant Food.


  • The name, rose, comes from the Latin, rosa.
  • The ancient Greeks believed the rose was sacred to Venus, the goddess of love.
  • The Iceberg is generally acknowledged as the most popular Australian rose.
  • Some roses are more disease-resistant than others.
    Did you choose disease-resistant roses for your garden?
  • Blackspot can be controlled with triforine fungicide but there are also natural ways of controlling the disease. For example, you can spray
    the foliage with diluted powdered milk as the South Australian rose
    growers, Ross Roses, do.
  • Ross Roses also trialled using a chain saw/sickle cutter to prune their roses
    and discovered that a rough pruned rose produces more flowers than a
    traditionally pruned rose.
  • Most parliament houses have rose gardens.
    Is one of your roses in the Rex Hazelwood Rose Garden of Old Parliament House?