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Canterbury

Contact Information:

General enquiries  canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com

President: Michael Brown 0276001456 mandmbrown.nz@gmail.com

Membership Secretary  Marian Brown  canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com

Secretary: Claire Gilroy info@gilroynurseries.nz


Our meetings are held at 7.00pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Kiosk in the Botanic Gardens (apart from June and July).

Central venue with lots of parking, easy access, plenty of room, and good lighting at night. New members are warmly welcome and a gratis rose plant to each new member. Please come along to a meeting to see what we’re all about, there is no obligation to join.

Public Pruning Demonstration dates for June are as follows;

Sat June 7th    10.30am Rangiora. Corner High St and Ashley St.[Rotary Rose Garden]

Sat June 21st  10.30am  Rose Garden in the Botanic Gardens Christchurch 

All are very welcome.


Membership is $30 annually (March-February or part thereof). Membership of the Canterbury Rose Society automatically gives you membership of the New Zealand Rose Society. Members receive two publications – the “Rose Annual” and the “Rose Review”. These can be collected from one of our meetings/garden visits. If you would like to have the publications posted to you, there will be a postage cost of $10.

Canterbury Rose Society members have the benefit of local vendor discounts, a regular (monthly during the growing season) electronic newsletter, and free entry to our catch ups and table shows as well as garden visits and pruning demonstrations. We have a wide variety of plant specialists who come to speak at our meetings. If you would like to join our society, our bank account details are as follows:

Canterbury Rose Society 03-0826-0116026-000

If you pay the subscription fee by internet banking, please email our membership secretary Marian at canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com with your contact details.

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