Contact Information:
General enquiries canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com
President: Michael Brown 03 312 8781 mandmbrown.nz@gmail.com
Membership Secretary Marian Brown canterburyrosesoc@gmail.com
Secretary: Claire Gilroy info@gilroynurseries.nz
Our meetings are held at 7.30 pm 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.
February 2025
Rangiora Mitre 10 Ranfurly Rose in the Waimakariri
Canterbury Rose Society will be hosting the Ranfurly Rose Competition at the Rangiora Showgrounds February 21st, 22nd 2025.
The interdistrict rose competition will see flowers come in from all over the South Island.
It will be a weekend of fun with roses and the venue will be open for public viewing from 1:00 pm 22nd of February.
There will be a celebratory dinner at the RSA on the Sat evening.
Come and see some beautiful roses and floral art.
The March meeting will feature a talk by Claire Gilroy from Gilroy Nurseries on John Ford’s novelty roses. This promises which to be very interesting meeting as John exports his best novelties to the UK and they are “simply gorgeous”!
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.
