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Rebel Spirit

With winter just around the corner, it is time to feature some of the exciting new roses to be released onto the New Zealand market this year. Our first featured variety is ‘Rebel Sprit’, a stunning shrub rose bred by Kordes Rosen of Germany who are international leaders in the creation of super healthy shrub roses.  ‘Rebel Spirit’ has masses of single red blooms opening to reveal golden yellow stamens that attract the bees.  An … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2021, health, kordes, Matthews Nurseries, New release, Rose of the Month, shrub rose

New Flower Carpet Rose Sunset

New release for New Zealand  - available from October 2015 at your nearest garden centre. Flower Carpet® Sunset is a bright tangerine coloured groundcover rose, one of the series of Flower Carpet groundcover roses first introduced in 1992 by Anthony Tesselaar International. Bred by Noack Rosen, the German hybridiser known for their early commitment to disease-resistant hybrids, Flower Carpet Sunset shares the impressive levels of disease … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2015, Flower Carpet, New release, Noack, Tesselaar

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