Magazine  (1981)  Page(s) 14. Vol 3, No. 1..  
 
Autumn meetings. Adelaide: Mrs. Katie Pianto has kindly consented to having a meeting in her home at 146 Grant Avenue, Toorak Gardens on Wednesday, 20th May at 7.30 p.m. Please bring along any cuttings you might like to swap, or rooted plants, or come to share your favourite Old Rose hunting grounds. With any luck there will be some slides of Old Rose sites in the Adelaide Hills. Mrs. Pianto will provide light refreshments.

Magazine  (1980)  Page(s) 11. Vol 2, No. 4.  
 
Old Roses….A Treasury of Favourites for Arrangements. From Katie Pianto, Toorak Gardens, S.A.
One of my joys in growing Old-Fashioned Roses is that they are wonderful for floral arrangements. In July when roses are scarce the ‘Duchesse de Brabant’ is flowering freely, giving masses of cream, pink tinted, cup-shaped blooms with buds tinted just the slightest shade of green. I find the best way to arrange them is in a small low bowl, because by shortening the stems the roses are easier to show to advantage. I like to use the buds and some of the foliage to make an outline for the composition. This also applies to ‘Irene Watts’ which also shows its creamy yellow flowers in the winter. Later in the year when all the roses are flowering, the Old Roses which I like to arrange together are ‘Belle de Crecy’ – a cerise pink shading to a rich violet, as a focal point; then ‘Fantin Latour’ – a lovely, medium sized pink bloom, a few ‘Viridiflora’ – the Chinese Green Rose, and as an outline an Indian species rose which has long pointed buds, single pink blooms and lovely light green glossy foliage. I usually use an old pewter tea-pot, or a fairly large, bowl shaped sugar basin well packed with crushed chicken wire (wire netting) to support the stems. The silver or pewter are a good foil for the pink shades of the roses. Another favourite is ‘Paul Neyron’, a very large rose pink, quartered and with a very stout stem. It also has a pleasant perfume. As it is such a strong rose I prefer to use it on its own. An arrangement of this rose always attracts much attention and excites much comment. I hope these few ideas will be helpful to some of our members who enjoy using their blooms in their homes and look forward to hearing how other members like to use Old-Fashioned Roses in floral arrangements.

Book  (1968)  Page(s) 8.  
 
J. Pianto (on the Committee of the Rose Society of S.A. Inc.)
Mr. and Mrs. J. Pianto, 146 Grant Avenue, Toorak Gardens, 5065 Hon. Librarians for the Society.