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Amore® Expresso

This month we feature a welcome addition to the range of brown toned roses available in New Zealand. ‘Amore® Expresso’ is a good garden rose with clusters of brown flowers, opening to reveal golden yellow stamens. A spicy clove scent of moderate strength is another addition to this medium growing variety. Perhaps the best feature of this rose is its fantastic health with the dark glossy foliage looking great well into the autumn … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2020, floribunda rose, Rose of the Month, Speks

2020 New Zealand Rose Review

Sold out for 2020 On sale now, the 2020 Rose Review is your full-colour guide to the newer roses sold in the nurseries and garden centres around New Zealand. Rose nurseries also feature their latest releases. An essential guide if you are wanting to plant some roses in your garden today or order ahead for winter 2020. As advertised in the Kiwi Gardener magazine. Or become a member and get the Rose Review annually as one of your … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2020, New Zealand Rose Review

The Poets Wife

This month we feature a newer English rose that will brighten up any garden and looks to be a welcome addition to the range of yellow roses in this category. ‘The Poets Wife’ has rich yellow cupped blooms which pale over time. Richly scented, the sweet scent has a hint of lemon.  Very healthy with glossy green foliage, it grows as a nicely rounded shrub of a medium height.  One to look out for, especially for those that are enthusiasts of … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2020, David Austin, fragrance, Rose of the Month, shrub rose

January – Lucky Charm

As we start the New Year and also the new decade, we feature one of the best smaller roses to be introduced in recent times. ‘Lucky Charm’ comes to us from English rose breeder Gareth Fryer who has created many fine smaller roses including the top-selling ‘Sweet Dream’, ‘Top Marks’ and ‘Flower Power’. ‘Lucky Charm' is in a similar style to these with a compact growth habit and masses of blooms, this time in an appealing lemon cream colour. … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2020, Gareth Fryer, Patio, Rose of the Month

‘Pride of Palmy’ selected as name for city rose

‘Pride of Palmy’ has been announced as the name for the rose celebrating 50 years of International Rose Trials in Palmerston North in 2020. The name was announced at the presentation of this year’s rose trial award on Sunday by the Mayor of Palmerston North, Grant Smith and was selected from names submitted in a competition held in August and September.  Six people submitted the name with Ann Cryer of Pukekohe drawn as the recipient of six … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2020, 50 years, Hybrid Tea rose, New Zealand Rose Society, NZRS trials, Palmerston North, Rob Somerfield

Name a Rose Competition

In 2020, the New Zealand Rose Society International Trials in Palmerston North celebrate 50 years – a remarkable milestone as the oldest rose trials in the Southern Hemisphere. To celebrate this occasion, the Mayor of Palmerston North, Grant Smith has commissioned a new rose to be named for Palmerston North, a city that has a long and proud association with the rose. Donated by its breeder, Rob Somerfield, the medium growing Hybrid Tea has … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2020, Competition, Name a Rose, NZRS trials, Palmerston North, Rob Somerfield

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