I could not visit Pretoria and leave without a visit to
Ludwig’s Rose Farm, the source of the bulk of our roses in the rosarium.
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| A sea of roses |
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| Rows and rows of roses |
On Saturday we went to visit the origins of human kind and
on Sunday it felt like we were visiting the origin of all roses.
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| More roses on their way to different nurseries |
The size of the rose farm is mind-blowing and one can
scarcely imagine so many roses in one place what to say of the variety of
roses.
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| The shop part of the farm |
To see so many healthy roses made me homesick for
Towerwater’s rosarium. The weather on the Highveld is so amazing. The roses
were being watered with overhead irrigation and there was no sign of disease.
In the Cape we take a lot of precaution not to get water on the leaves but in
Pretoria the weather is so dry that the water on the leaves evaporates in no
time leaving no possibility of diseases taking hold.
With the sea of roses imprinted on my mind’s eye it was
difficult not to look forward to going home to Towerwater.
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| The green rose |
A visit to this rose farm is a must for any rose enthusiast! In a couple of weeks most of those thousands of rose plants that have not yet been consigned to nursaries around the country will be in full bloom creating an extraordinary spectacle of colour.
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