ROMANZA® Glitz & Glam
Our featured rose for February certainly lives up to its name as one that attracts attention with a colour blend ‘ROMANZA® Glitz & Glam’ has large blooms of yellow with candy pink, suffusing to red as they age. There is a light tea scent to enjoy. The plant grows to one metre high and has […]
Skyla Rose
We start 2024 by featuring the overall winner from the New Zealand Rose of the Year competition held at Rogers Rose Garden in Hamilton last November. It also won Best Floribunda and Most Fragrant Rose in the same competition in 2019. ‘Skyla Rose’ has clusters of glowing medium pink blooms that open to an old-fashioned […]
December – Everlasting Hope
This month we feature the winner of the New Zealand Rose of the Year competition where the public gets to vote for the best rose on show at Rogers Rose Garden in Hamilton. It also won the award for best New Zealand raised rose and the best shrub rose. ‘Everlasting Hope’ has been named for […]
2017 winners
The New Zealand Rose of the Year trials were held in mid November at Rogers Rose Garden, part of the award winning Hamilton Gardens in Hamilton. The trials are the only one in the world to be judged solely by public voting and over the four days of the Pacific Rose Bowl Festival which also […]
December – St Margaret’s Gold
Every now and again, a rose variety will produce a sport which is a naturally occurring change in a certain characteristic of the variety. Sports are often propagated and if worthy enough, become a new variety on the market. Probably the most common type of ‘sporting’ is a change in flower colour and ths month, […]
February – Christchurch Remembers
For this month, we feature a rose named to commemorate the victims of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and which will be widely available in New Zealand this winter. First of all, ‘Christchurch Remembers’ is red in colour – a bright scarlet red that darkens around the petal edges as they age. A floribunda, ‘Christchurch Remembers’ […]
Win – Christchurch Remembers
Win – we have three plants of the 2016 New Zealand Rose of the Year winner to three lucky winners. There are only very limited plants available this summer but will be widely available in winter 2017 from Mitre 10 and Palmers stores. This floribunda rose has blooms of medium red, darkening on the edges. […]
July – Glorious
Yellow is always a colour that brightens up any garden and for the middle of winter, our featured rose is one of the best new roses to come onto the market in recent years in New Zealand. ‘Glorious’ is well named with large, well formed blooms of clear yellow produced on strong stems. They last […]
New Zealand Rose of the Year 2014
The New Zealand Rose of the Year trials were held 13th – 16th November at Rogers Rose Garden, Hamilton. The public judged the roses over the four days while VIPS judged on the final day before the presentation of awards. The trials are for varieties already on the market in New Zealand. New Zealand Rose […]
Pacific Rose Bowl Festival
The Pacific Rose Bowl Festival takes place every November in the Rogers Rose Garden, located in the beautiful Hamilton Gardens. The four-day Festival is centered around the New Zealand Rose of the Year Trial. The New Zealand Rose of the Year is one of only two Rose Trials in the Southern Hemisphere that are judged […]