Rose Society of South Australia
To encourage, improve, foster and extend the cultivation
and appreciation of the Rose
and appreciation of the Rose
Floribunda
'Tuscan Sun’ is a modern, tough Floribunda rose with large flowers carried in small clusters of three to seven. As its name suggests, this rose enjoys a sunny, hot environment and its upright growth (to 1.4m) and dark glossy green foliage ensure its blooms standout in the garden creating a lovely display.
Tuscan Sun was bred in the USA by Dr. Keith Zary, for Jackson and Perkins, and was introduced in 2004.
The well-shaped, high centred flowers change colour from deep apricot buds through to bronze and coppery pink when fully open. A light, spicy fragrance adds another attractive quality. This rose represents a new trend towards larger blooms and quick repeat flowering for Floribunda roses. Importantly, it is very disease tolerant in our hot dry climate.
Whether it is admired in the garden, exhibited on the show bench or used as a cut flower, this versatile rose definitely deserves a place in our gardens.
Hybrid Tea
There is no other rose in the world like 'Red Intuition'. It is a beautiful, striking Hybrid Tea rose introduced in 2000 as part of renowned French Rose Breeder Delbard’s “Painter's Collection".
Each rose in the Painter's Collection is multi-coloured with different colours displayed as stripes or splotches.
Red Intuition is a unique dual red striped rose - the petals are an exuberant Cardinal red with deep blood red stripes. It is a very eye-catching rose which commenced its career as an impressive cut-flower rose winning the prestigious "Cut Rose of the Year Award" in 2000 before making the transition to the home garden. As a cut flower it has excellent long stems, superb vase life of up to 10 days and repeat blooms exceptionally well.
Red Intuition is a moderately tall rose, up to 1 ½ metres in height and enjoys our hot dry climate. Flowers can be carried as one bloom per stem or in small clusters. Resistance to Black Spot, Mildew and Rust is reasonable.
This popular, free flowering, showy rose has gained a reputation worldwide among flower arrangers and florists given its unusual blend of reds, classic shape with a high pointed centre and lovely long stems.
Shrub Rose
Sally Holmes is a famous Shrub Rose loved and admired around the world for its prolific flowering and excellent disease resistance.
It is interesting to note that this rose was bred by an amateur rose breeder, Robert Holmes, in the United Kingdom in 1976 and it was subsequently introduced by Fryer’s Nursery Ltd.
Sally Holmes produces abundant attractive apricot pointed buds and beautiful, almost single, (4 – 8 petals) creamy white blooms with a coronet of bright yellow stamens and mild fragrance, borne in large clusters of 10 to 25 per stem. It repeat flowers in flushes throughout the entire growing season after dead-heading.
This hardy vigorous Shrub rose grows into a well branched, large bush reaching 1.5m tall x 2m wide and has glossy vibrant green foliage on strong arching canes and only a few prickles.
Sally Holmes was born in Northern Ireland in the 1920s and married Robert Holmes in 1944. She died on 12 April 2012 and her memory will live on in the roses planted around the world and named in her honour.
AWARDS:
Gold Award Baden Baden 1980
Gold Medal Portland 1993
Best Fragrance Glasgow 1993
WFRS ROSE HALL OF FAME Inductee 2012
Hybrid Tea
Only a rose of the highest quality could be chosen to receive the iconic name ‘Marilyn Monroe’. This glamorous, classic Hybrid Tea rose was bred by internationally famous USA rose breeder, Tom Carruth in 2001.
The greenish buds open into beautiful, full, high-centred blooms of soft apricot, 10-12cm in diameter, borne mostly solitary on strong stems with attractive semi-glossy foliage. The growth habit of this medium size bush is upright 1.5m tall x 1.25m wide.
Nearly everything about this rose is excellent including its bloom, colour, form, quantity of blooms and plant vigour, disease resistance and heat and cold tolerance. It almost deserves a perfect score but does not quite get there due to its lack of perfume and profusion of sharp thorns.
Marilyn Monroe is a popular and very versatile rose – it makes a lovely display in the garden, a superb long-lasting cut flower for floral arrangements and is often displayed as an award-winning exhibit on the show bench.
AWARD: Certificate of Merit Rose Hills Rose Trials USA 2003
(HARkuly)
Floribunda
Bred by Harkness in England in 1977 and introduced in 1978, this popular white Floribunda is admired by rose lovers around the world.
‘Margaret Merril’ has dainty high centred buds, either in small clusters or singly, opening to large pure white semi-double flowers (diameter 10cm) with prominent red stamens.
The bush is medium to tall with upright growth 1.7m tall x 1.2m wide, attractive dark green foliage and just a few thorns.
Margaret Merril is known for quick repeat blooming in flushes throughout the season and its exceptional citrus and spice fragrance. As well as creating a wonderful display in the garden, this long stemmed classic rose also makes a useful cut flower.
In case you were wondering who ‘Margaret Merril’ was – respected author Sean McCann wrote, “When the rose Margaret Merril was named for the front person in the Oil of Olay campaign it transpired that the name was a fictitious one. There was no such person … but out in the big world there are a number of people bearing that same name – and three at least have come forward to the Harkness company and are growing the rose as their own!”
Hybrid Rugosa
This rose takes its name from Roseraie de L’Hay - one of the best and oldest “roses only” rose gardens in the world. The garden was established, near Paris, by department store magnate Jules Gravereaux in 1893 and contains one of the world’s greatest collections of Old Garden Roses and a very comprehensive collection of modern roses as well.
The plant, Roseraie de L’Hay was bred by French Rose Hybridist M. Cochet, in 1901, who also designed the garden.
This rose is a Rosa Rugosa Hybrid. The Rugosa group of roses are renowned for their performance in very tough conditions with its leathery, ribbed foliage being resistant to extreme heat and diseases.
Roseraie de L’Hay can reach 1.5m in height and 1.5m in width. Its deep crimson purple flowers are very fragrant and are produced regularly throughout the growing season.
Its flowers, foliage and habit make it a very attractive shrub for garden displays. Importantly, like most members of the Rugosa Group, it performs relatively well near the coast.
Large Climber
Since being introduced nearly 50 years ago, Altissimo has earned recognition as a rose of great distinction in most rose growing countries around the world.
Bred by Delbard-Chabert in France in 1966, this versatile climber is suitable for a pillar or against a wall or can also be grown as an arching shrub rose. It can grow up to 3m tall x 1.8m wide.
The vibrant blood-red single flowers (7 petals) are usually 13cm in diameter with a coronet of prominent golden stamens and the blooms are either born singly or in small clusters. Altissimo flowers freely and continuously during spring, summer and autumn and produces healthy dark green foliage.
Floribunda
Playgirl is an eye-catching bright pink Floribunda rose which was bred in the USA by Ralph Moore in 1986. Ralph Moore was one of America’s most famous rose breeders introducing over 500 roses during his 60 year career.
Playgirl is described as a single rose with 5 – 7 petals. It is well known for its elegant slender pointed buds, attractive pink flowers with wavy petals and bright yellow stamens. The blooms are delicate and beautiful, borne singly or in small clusters of up to 5 flowers.
This healthy attractive plant grows into a neat bush almost 1m x 1m, has semi-glossy foliage, few prickles and is quick to repeat flower all through the growing season.
Ideal for garden beds and borders or containers.
Available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery or place an order with your local garden centre.
Hybrid Tea
This beautiful white Hybrid Tea was bred by Dr. Bruce Chapman, in Melbourne, in 2005 and introduced in 2007 by Ross Roses in South Australia. Bruce Chapman was awarded the Australian Rose Award in 2006. He served as Victorian Representative for the Rose Breeders’ Association for six years and in 2007 received the T.A. Stewart Memorial Award and ARBA Alister Clark Award for rose breeding which highlighted the outstanding contribution he has made to rose breeding and rose growing in Australia.
Bred for Australian conditions, Amazing Grace ’07 is a proven performer in our hot climate and is hard to fault. It has large, pure white classic blooms (approximately 9cm in diameter) with a delightful floral fragrance and good length stems, almost thornless, on a well-shaped 1.4m x 1m bush. The bush usually produces a single rose per stem and the dark green foliage is glossy and healthy with excellent disease resistance.
As well as being hardy and easy to grow, Amazing Grace ’07 produces a prolific amount of blooms with continuous flowering from spring until early winter. It makes a charming display in the garden and as a cut flower in arrangements.
Polyantha
‘The Fairy’ was regarded by many as a breakthrough when bred by Ann Bentall in the United Kingdom and released in 1932.
This beautiful, low-growing rose produces large sprays ranging from 30 to 100 blooms, of soft, light pink, informal flowers. Its spreading habit ultimately became a core character of many modern landscape and groundcover roses. Indeed, it has been used as a parent for many of them.
The Fairy makes an ideal border and is in continuous flower from late spring to late autumn. Its glossy, small, dense foliage provides an excellent backdrop to the floral sprays.
This rose is tough, loves our hot, dry climate and is very easy to grow. Each plant will grow 0.5m x 0.75m and is easy to manage. Apart from its use as a border plant, The Fairy makes an excellent pot plant and can be used for hanging baskets to display its arching canes.
Awards:The Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit 1993
(Ausreef)
The David Austin English Shrub Rose Sharifa Asma was released in 1989. It is a hardy shrub rose which is well suited to our climate and highly recommended for its repeat flowering ability.
Sharifa Asma has medium sized, shallow cup-shaped blooms at first, the petals later reflexing to form perfect rosettes packed with layers of petals. They are a delicate blush pink, paling to almost white on the outer petals. This rose produces clusters of flowers, usually five per stem, with a distinctive and beautiful strong fruity
MAfragrance of white grapes and mulberry.
Sharifa Asma grows into an even, upright bush with attractive Rugosa-like foliage and good disease resistance. It is easy to grow and makes an excellent choice for group plantings and borders, reaching approximately 1.5 metres tall x 1 metre wide, it creates a wonderful display of roses from the first spring flush through to the beginning of winter. It also makes a lovely fragrant cut flower for arrangements. Its vase life is reasonable for a shrub rose, with blooms lasting 3 to 4 days.
David Austin named this rose after an Omani princess at the request of her family.
Hybrid Tea
(WEKcryland)
Famous for its perfect rose blooms, Moonstone was bred by USA Hybridiser, Tom Carruth, in 1998.
Moonstone quickly became the No.1 exhibition show rose in the USA and is often exhibited in Australian rose shows where it is a regular prize winner.
The large, high-centred blooms display impeccable form (approx. 40 petals), are ivory white with a delicate pale pink edging and have a mild spice tea fragrance.
Usually producing a single rose per stem, the bush has tough, large, mid-green foliage and reaches 1.2m to 1.6m in height with upright growth.
Ideally suited to our hot dry climate, this rose is very disease resistant and is one of the best for substance, form and vigour.
It blooms in flushes throughout the season from spring until late autumn. It makes an excellent cut flower with long stems and has a long vase life.
AWARDS: Bronze Medal National Rose Trial Garden of Australia 2001
Tuscan Sun
Red Intuition
Sally Holmes
Marilyn Monroe
Margaret Merrill
Roseraie de L'Hay
Altissimo
Playgirl
Amazing Grace
The Fairy
Sharifa Asma
Moonstone