Santa Rosa
The Santa Rosa Plum is a classic and highly prized plum variety, known for its rich, sweet-tart flavour and deep red to purplish skin. This medium to large-sized plum has a juicy, amber-coloured flesh that makes it perfect for fresh eating, baking, and making delicious jams and preserves. The Santa Rosa Plum tree is a vigorous grower and a reliable producer, offering a generous harvest from mid to late summer, providing a steady supply of mouth-watering plums. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it an excellent choice for home gardeners looking for a productive and easy-to-grow fruit tree. While the tree is self-fertile, it will produce a better crop when planted with another plum variety as a pollinator. Its compact growth habit makes it suitable for small gardens and even larger containers, ensuring you can enjoy fresh, homegrown plums with ease.
SANTA ROSA PLUM TREE FEATURES
- Fruit: Medium to large-sized with deep red to purplish skin and juicy, sweet-tart amber flesh
- Height: 3-4 metres when mature
- Growing Habits: Upright and compact, self-fertile but benefits from a pollinator, thrives in full sun, prefers well-drained soil, suitable for garden planting or large pots.
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As recommended by the Swiss Rose Garden Nursery.
- Dig a hole 60cm wide and 60cm deep. If the topsoil is usable, separate it from the sand as it can be re-used in the hole. When planting roses in an existing rose bed or where roses have been previously grown during the last 5 years, the soil must be replaced.
- Mix together a mixture that contains 2 parts topsoil, 2 parts compost, 1 part manure or buy a Soil Improver, Landscaping or Rose Soil mix from a Landscape supply place. About 100 litres per planting hole is recommended.
- A layer of manure can be placed at the bottom of the hole and then the hole filled with the above soil mix.
- Place one handful of slow-release fertilizer at 20cm depth from the top where the roots of the newly planted rose will be situated.
- Soak the soil thoroughly and lightly compact.
- Now plant the rose in this mix with the surface of the plant even with the surface of the prepared area, e.g., the graft union should be about 5 to 10 cm above soil level.
- Water every day for the first six months from October onwards, up to 10 litres per day during warm weather is recommended for strong deep root development.
- Plant roses 1m to 1.2m apart.
Enjoy the beautiful roses!