Story: Feeding Roses and Flowering Plants
Episode: 11
Presenter: Neville Passmore
Air Date: 31 October 2026

Neville explores how Troforte’s controlled-release biological fertiliser supports healthy roses and flowering plants, explaining how regular feeding and beneficial soil biology can encourage strong growth and abundant blooms.

• Roses can flower for up to nine months, so maintaining healthy growth through the warmer seasons helps support ongoing flowering.
• Troforte’s controlled-release fertiliser can be applied every four months to encourage shoot growth, where rose flowers develop.
• The biological fertiliser contains beneficial microbes and minerals that work with soil biology to support plant health.
• Scratch the fertiliser lightly into the soil and water in well. Avoid unnecessary pesticide use to help protect beneficial soil life.
• Chilli thrips can damage roses, but predatory mites offer a biological control option by feeding on the pests.
• Camellias and azaleas also benefit from feeding, but their main growth surge occurs in early summer after their winter and spring flowering.

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www.troforte.com.au