Rose Society of South Australia
To encourage, improve, foster and extend the cultivation
and appreciation of the Rose
and appreciation of the Rose
Polyantha
Climbing Pinkie is the perfect rose for a screen, trellis or arch.
Moderate in growth, being 3m x 3m, and almost thornless it is clothed in thick, bright green foliage and constantly in flower.
Climbing Pinkie is a climbing sport of the lovely Pinkie – a Polyantha rose bred and introduced by USA Rose Breeder, Herbert C. Swim, in 1947.
The climbing sport was discovered in 1952 and has been very popular since. For a sport, it is exceptionally good at repeat flowering.
Typical of Polyantha roses, its 3 to 5cm semi-double flowers are borne in large, round clusters with up to 40 to 50 blooms per cluster in Spring and regular smaller clusters throughout the balance of the flowering season.
As its name suggests – its flowers are pink and the abundant blooms create a wonderful display.
This rose enjoys our hot, dry climate and is relatively disease resistant.
Its strong growth is easy to manage and train over the supporting structures.
An excellent moderately vigorous climbing rose which will provide years of pleasure.
(Veterans’ Honour)
Hybrid Tea
The ‘City of Newcastle’ is a very popular, reliable, bright red Hybrid Tea rose bred by leading American Hybridist, Dr. Keith Zary, in 1997.
It is a tough bush growing up to 1.5m tall with semi-glossy, dark green foliage. Beautifully shaped, glorious cherry red flowers (with 25 – 30 petals and 125mm in size) are produced singly or in small clusters of up to 4 flowers on long, sturdy stems making this rose perfect for cutting. The delectable sweet raspberry fragrance is an added bonus.
The City of Newcastle, named to honour the Newcastle City Bicentenary, has established a reputation as one of the best red roses available given its frequency of flowering, strong disease resistance, perfume, classic flower shape and long stems.
In the USA this rose was named ‘Veterans’ Honour’. To acknowledge and commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Australia’s involvement in WWI, ‘City of Newcastle’ will adopt this name from June, 2015 onwards.
For all rose lovers and gardeners who like classic red roses, this rose is a must for your garden. Due to its popularity, it may need to be ordered from your local specialist garden centre, to guarantee supply.
Floribunda
‘Carabella’ is an Australian bred Floribunda rose released in 1960. The breeder was Frank Riethmuller (1884-1965) who is known to have bred and introduced 26 Australian roses in the middle of the last century.
This is a tough bushy rose with glossy, light green foliage. Its single flowers are carried in large sprays of small, creamy pink flowers that fade to pale pink with prominent yellow stamens and a fresh floral scent. Each spray can carry up to 50 to 100 individual blooms and the overall effect is most attractive. It is quick to repeat flower if spent clusters of blooms are regularly removed.
Carabella has a bushy habit and can grow to 1.5m tall and 1.5m wide. Its growth habit and almost thornless characteristic make it ideal for hedging.
A hardy, resilient rose perfect for our climate.
In addition to Carabella, some of Riethmuller’s best roses are Gay Vista, Esmeralda, Claret Cup, Spring Song and Titian.
Hybrid Tea
‘Spirit of Peace’ was released by Meilland International of France in 1995, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the release of the famous Peace rose and mark the anniversary of the end of WWII. Amazingly South Australia was chosen as the location to release this beautiful rose to the world.
It is appropriate in April, 2015, which coincides with the 100th Anniversary of Gallipoli, to select a rose associated with “peace” following war.
Spirit of Peace is a tall Hybrid Tea rose growing up to 2 metres with attractive bright green healthy foliage. It seems to always have large, high-centred, classic shaped flowers which are an unusual light apricot pink to buff colour on lovely long straight stems. The flowers exude a gorgeous spiced honey fragrance and are adored by flower arrangers and home gardeners alike.
Very free flowering, a mature plant may carry up to 60 blooms each flush and it flowers freely and frequently throughout the growing season.
This immensely popular, almost thornless rose, is very worthy of a place in every rose lover’s garden.
(MEIsionver)
Hybrid Tea
‘Best Friend’ was released by Meilland International in France in 1997 and released in Australia in 2002, named by the RSPCA to honour the unconditional special friendship that comes from loving a pet.
A stylish, classic rose of great beauty with long straight stems and a lovely rich exotic fruity fragrance. Awarded no less than five Fragrance Awards from Rose Trials across Europe.
This superb Hybrid Tea is a tall upright bush (1.5m x 1.1m) producing large numbers of bright plum pink classic shaped blooms in flushes throughout the growing season. The bush is covered in bright green healthy foliage and is easy to grow.
This rose is a great performer as a cut flower with a good vase life.
AWARDS:
GOLD MEDAL Rome Rose Trials, Italy
FRAGRANCE AWARD Rome Rose Trials, Italy
FRAGRANCE AWARD Nantes Rose Trials, France
FRAGRANCE AWARD Le Roeulx Rose Trials, Belgium
FRAGRANCE AWARD Geneva Rose Trials, Switzerland
FRAGRANCE AWARD Bagatelle Rose Trials, France
‘Monsieur Tillier’ is a famous old Tea Rose bred by Alexandre Bernaix in France in 1891. This rose is sold as Mons. Tillier in Australia and the USA, but as ‘Archiduc Joseph’ in Europe.
Monsieur Tillier has very distinctive medium-sized, old fashioned blooms in orange-pink edged with soft violet red outer petals and displays vibrant carmine buds. The flowers have a fresh herbaceous fragrance and repeat well. It can form a large bush, up to 2m tall, with healthy attractive foliage.
This rose is recommended because it is easy to grow in our warm climate, strong and hardy and has prolific flowering throughout the season.
Monsieur Tillier was voted number one Tea Rose in a worldwide plebiscite. Rosarians in Australia and around the world voted for their favourite ten Tea Roses. The votes were compiled by David Ruston and Di Durston and published in the Heritage Roses in Australia journal in spring 2010.
Hybrid Tea
Once again, our Rose of the Month has got it all! ‘Lolita’ is a beautiful classical shaped Hybrid Tea – it has a gorgeous apricot colour tinged with pink, quantity and frequency and good plant vigour, moderate disease resistance, a fresh fragrance and it really is a great cut flower.
Lolita was bred in Germany by Kordes in 1972 and since its release it has earned an excellent reputation. In our climate, this rose performs well, blooms repeatedly and roses are rarely out of shape. They last extremely well as cut flowers in arrangements, having long straight stems and not too many thorns.
This is a flower that looks great in all of its stages from tight bud into a high-pointed classic shaped rose through to a full bloom showing its stamens.
The bush is tough and upright growing to 1.5m tall x 1.2m wide.
Lolita is still very popular today and readily available from most specialist rose nurseries and good garden centres.
Floribunda
(MEIcloux)
A large multi-coloured rose showing spectacular colouring in lemon yellow blended with orange and orange-red. The classic shaped flowers have approximately 40 petals but little or no fragrance.
Bred by Marie-Louise Meilland and introduced in France by Meilland International in 1983 as ‘Pigalle’.
Jubilee 150 has a vigorous, bushy habit growing up to 1.5 metres tall x 1 metre wide with healthy, semi-glossy medium green foliage.
Typical of a Floribunda, the attractive clusters contain 3 to 6 blooms per stem and create an eye-catching display in the garden. This rose is also long-lasting as a cut flower.
Released in Australia in 1986 with the name ‘Jubilee 150’ to celebrate South Australia’s 150th anniversary of Statehood.
(WEKsproulses)
Grandiflora
‘Honey Dijon’ was regarded as a breakthrough in the rose industry when it was introduced by Weeks Roses in 2005. It was unusual among the ‘tan’ coloured roses because of its health, vigour and lasting novel colour. Prior to that time, most of the tan/browns were weak and spindly.
Honey Dijon was bred by a well-known amateur rose breeder Dr. James Sproul, in the USA in 2003 and was introduced in Australia by Swane’s Nursery in 2006.
The well-shaped bush grows 1.5m tall x 1.4m wide and has vigorous, upright growth and dark green glossy foliage. It is classified as a Grandiflora due to the flowers being borne in sprays or small clusters.
The classic shaped flowers are an unusual golden tan or pale tone of brown (with 26 – 40 petals and average diameter of 10 cm) with a strong fruity fragrance. The bush produces small clusters of 4 to 5 flowers on sturdy stems making them ideal for cutting.
This very popular rose blooms in flushes throughout the season and has excellent disease resistance, classic form and an attractive fresh rose perfume making it a most decorative addition to any garden.
Miniature Rose
The old adage “Good things come in small packages” certainly applies to this rose. It is a small bush growing 0.65m to 1.0 metre tall and 0.5m wide.
The classically shaped, pale apricot flowers are only 3 to 4 cm in diameter. They are either borne as single flowers per stem or in clusters of 4 to 12. The beautiful, high-centred flowers are perfect for small arrangements, button holes or for the show bench. The plant produces blooms throughout the growing season and is outstanding in spring and autumn and continues to flower through summer.
‘Jean Kenneally’ was bred by famous rose breeder Dee Bennett in California, USA, in 1984. Dee Bennett was known as the ‘Queen of Mini Roses' and bred and introduced over 80 varieties.
Dee was born in Western Australia, and immigrated to America as a war bride, settling in San Diego. She joined the newly formed San Diego Rose Society and became good friends with the Society’s President, Jean Kenneally. In 1971 she visited rose breeder Ralph Moore and his little roses, called minis. With his encouragement she learned everything she could about growing and propagating miniatures. She opened her rose nursery in 1972 and as the business grew she tried hybridising roses. Over the next 14 years Dee bred some of the best miniature roses in America. Upon her death in 1987 she left over 150 test roses which were being evaluated. Her daughter took over the nursery but Dee Bennett did not live to see her finest creations including Irresistible and Luis Desamero.
This lovely miniature ‘Jean Kenneally’ has become popular throughout the world. It is healthy, attractive and reasonably resistant to pests and diseases. Great as a border plant and also grows well in pots.
Purchasing this plant can be a challenge, but it is relatively easy to strike from cuttings.
(AUSjo)
Shrub Rose
‘Jude The Obscure’ is an English Shrub Rose bred by David Austin in the UK and released in 1995.
This rose remains a great favourite of many gardeners owing to its lovely, strong and unusual award-winning fragrance and romantic cup-shaped flowers. The magnificent, large, pale yellow blooms have an apricot coloured centre, 55 – 70 petals and are produced solitary or in small clusters with an outstanding fruity fragrance of guava and sweet grapes.
Particularly good in warm climates, Jude The Obscure is very free-flowering with strong, healthy, bushy growth. It will reach a height of 1.5m and 1.2m wide. It displays good disease resistance in our hot dry climate and is reasonably free flowering through summer and autumn.
Plant it near a seat where you can sit and enjoy its delightful perfume.
Named ‘Jude The Obscure’ after the famous novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1895.
Floribunda
The ‘City of Adelaide’ rose was bred by Meilland in France in 1990 and named to recognise the City of Adelaide and its reputation as one of the best places in the world to grow roses.
This Floribunda rose has clusters of semi-double, rich salmon pink blooms with a slight fragrance. It is a well-shaped plant featuring healthy, deep green, glossy foliage growing to 1.2m tall and 1.0m wide.
‘City of Adelaide’ is ideal as a feature plant or grown as part of a massed bed.
Adelaide was the first Australian Capital City to have a rose named after it. The City itself has many rose plantings and large feature gardens including Veale Gardens, Rymill Park, the Heritage Rose Garden between Frome Road and the university foot bridge, Brougham Gardens, Pennington Gardens and the Lipman Gardens. There is also the Adelaide International Rose Garden and National Rose Trial Garden at the Botanic Gardens.
Apart from growing the ‘City of Adelaide’ rose in your own garden, take the time to explore Adelaide’s rose gardens which reinforce Adelaide as the Rose Capital of Australia.
Climbing Pinkie
City of Newcastle
Carabella
Spirit of Peace
Best Friend
Monsieur Tillier
Lolita
Jubilee 150
Honey Dijon
Jean Kenneally
Jude the Obscure
City of Adelaide