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April – White Romance

It’s been a while since we featured a white rose so for this month, we feature one of the best new white roses of the last 10 years to come onto the market in New Zealand. Some say it’s destined to be the best white floribunda grown in New Zealand, already ranking 4th among the top favourite floribundas as voted by rose society members for 2014.

‘White Romance’ is a wonderful rose both in the garden and on the show bench, producing a great display of pure white blooms throughout the summer months, occasionally with a pink tinge. It is slightly later to get into bloom compared to ‘Iceberg’ but provides a great display none the same. Dark green foliage compliments the blooms. A compact, medium grower to one metre high, the plant is very healthy and is ideal grown as a standard as well.

Bred by Rob Somerfield from ‘Anniversary’ and ‘Sky Tower’, ‘White Romance’ is a sister seedling to two other newer roses, ‘Pacific Glory’ and ‘Wild Cherry’. ‘White Romance’ is well worth growing in any garden

White Romance SOMhitmas plant 1

Tagged With: 2015, floribunda rose, New Zealand Rose Society, NZRS trials, Rob Somerfield, Rose of the Month, white rose

Comments

  1. joy backler says

    July 27, 2015 at 3:39 pm

    Where in Wellington can I buy the rose called White Romance have tried Mitre 10 Upper Hutt but haven’t got any.
    Thank you

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  2. Gaylene says

    March 30, 2020 at 6:10 pm

    Hi. I received one of these white romance as a gift. Truly beautiful. Once it stopped flowering it hasn’t been so happy. Is it possibly because it is still in the original pot or possibly need more sun?

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