Rose Society of South Australia
To encourage, improve, foster and extend the cultivation
and appreciation of the Rose
and appreciation of the Rose
Floribunda
(WEKsmopur)
‘Ebb Tide’ is a Floribunda rose bred by Tom Carruth, in the USA, in 2004 and released by Weeks Roses.
The rose has the two outstanding features of showy, novel, mauve blooms and a delightful strong fragrance.
The dark purple buds open to deep purple, double, old-fashioned rosette blooms. The flowers 8-10 cms in size are described as velvet plum washed with a haze of sultry smoke with a petal count exceeding 35. The cooler autumn months usually bring a darker colouration. The flowers are borne in clusters with regular single stems. The intense spicy clove fragrance is a major selling point for Ebb Tide.
The bushy growth habit is upright with medium size dark green, semi glossy foliage. The almost straight prickles are average in size and are not present in heavy numbers. In good growing conditions the compact, rounded growth habit can reach 90 cms by 75 cms wide, but a height of 60 – 80 cms is more common. The plant has excellent pest and disease resistance.
Ebb Tide boasts a complicated parentage that includes three other outstanding mauve roses, Big Purple (Stephens 1986), Blue Nile (Delbard 1980) and Sweet Chariot (Moore 1985).
A very reliable rose, Ebb Tide blooms in flushes throughout the growing season. Available as a standard or bush, Ebb Tide can be used for beds, borders and containers. The rose makes an attractive statement in the garden or in cut flower arrangements.
Ebb Tide is available from Knight’s Roses, Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Treloar Roses and Newman’s Nursery. The rose comes highly recommended.
Awards:
Certificate of Merit National Rose Trial Garden of Australia 2005
Most Fragrant Rose Rose Hills International Rose Trial USA 2011
Text : Les Johnson
Floribunda
‘Maurice Utrillo’ was bred by the Delbard family in France and introduced in 2003.
Maurice Utrillo is from the Delbard Painters Collection – a series of brilliantly contrasted, voluptuous striped roses named after the Great French Impressionist Painters. Other well-known roses in the range are ‘Henri Matisse’, ‘Claude Monet’ and Edgar Degas’. Often bringing sheer delight or sometimes disdain, the extreme difference in each flower attracts immediate attention. Maurice Utrillo is regarded as one of the best in the collection given its vigour, double camellia like blooms, disease resistance and stunning colours of bright red, cream and white, fading to pink at the edges.
‘Maurice Utrillo’ has large flowers with a light herbaceous scent and looks like a modern shrub rose but is registered as a Floribunda rose, a term used to describe a cluster of flowers on one stem. The rose is hardy and very disease resistant. It has healthy, dark green foliage and grows 1m tall and 1m wide with great repeat flowering from spring until the end of autumn.
This rose is ideal for beds and group planting making a stunning colourful display in the garden and is also suitable for flower arrangements.
Available as a bush or standard rose from Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Newman’s Nursery and Rose Sales Online.
Text: Melanie Trimper
Climber, Shrub
‘Westerland’, bred by Kordes in 1969, is popular throughout the world. Although released as a Shrub, it is most often used as a medium-sized climber, covering areas 3m wide by 2m high.
Westerland flowers throughout the season and its vivid colour varies between orange-red, apricot and yellow. The large, cupped blooms are borne in clusters of up to 9 flowers per stem with an attractive, intense, rose, clove and spice fragrance.
Fresh new foliage appears bronze in colour, later changing as it ages to form large leaves of glossy deep green. A vigorous and healthy shrub, it is very resistant to black spot and reasonably tolerant of other diseases. This rose establishes quickly, making it an ideal screening plant, albeit deciduous.
When in full bloom this rose provides a spectacular wall of flowers making an eye-catching display.
Westerland was recognised as an ADR rose in the prestigious German rose trials in 1974
Available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Ross Roses, Newman’s Nursery, Thomas for Roses and Treloar Roses.
Text: Kelvin Trimper
Hybrid Tea
JACsegra
Once in a while an exceptional rose comes along that grabs the attention of the rose world.
Bred by Dr. Keith Zary in the USA, this rose was introduced in 2006 and named to honour the late ‘Pope John Paul II’.
This outstanding rose was awarded a Gold Medal and the title ‘Australia’s Rose of the Year’ for 2010 from the National Rose Trial Garden of Australia, in Adelaide, and gained an international reputation for excellence worldwide.
It is not only a perfect pure white, classic rose, it has all the other desirable characteristics as well. One of the most fragrant roses, Pope John Paul II has a magnificent intense fresh citrus fragrance, beautiful large high-pointed blooms on long stems and prolific repeat flowering. Given its fragrance and vase life, it makes a great cut flower.
The bush has very good disease tolerance and a neat growth habit of approximately 1.4m high x 1m wide with healthy, dark green glossy foliage.
This rose excels in all types of climates from the cool damp climates of Vancouver and Tasmania to the hot dry climate of Adelaide and South Australia. It simply has it all.
Available as a bush or standard from Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Newman’s Nursery, Swane’s Nurseries and Treloar Roses.
AWARDS include:
MOST FRAGRANT ROSE Rose Hills USA 2006
GOLD MEDAL National Rose Trial Garden Adelaide 2010
BEST ROSE IN THE TRIAL National Rose Trial Garden Adelaide 2010
BEST HYBRID TEA National Rose Trial Garden Adelaide 2010
MOST FRAGRANT ROSE National Rose Trial Garden Adelaide 2010
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD Portland Oregon USA 2011
MOST FRAGRANT ROSE Portland Oregon USA 2011
Text: Kelvin Trimper
Grandiflora
(MEIsponge)
This rose was bred by Alain A. Meilland, Meilland International, in Antibes, France in 2000 and was released in the USA in 2003 as "Cherry Parfait™". It was introduced in Australia in 2008 as "Fire & Ice".
"Fire & Ice" performs differently in different countries and climatic conditions as the amount of vigour varies but importantly it has the ability to withstand very hot climates and very cold climates. Alain Meilland wrote this rose "has withstood temperatures below minus 10'C" proving its hardiness, however, it also grows extremely well on the Adelaide Plains and can tolerate our hot summers with temperatures reaching 40's Celsius. Combine this with excellent disease resistance, especially in respect to Powdery Mildew, and you have a very successful modern rose that has received awards in trials around the world and was chosen as AARS (All-America Rose Selections) Rose of the Year in 2003.
This attractive healthy bush produces blooms with bright cherry red tips on creamy white petals creating an eye-catching, bi-coloured effect, accompanied by slightly glossy dense green foliage. The classic shaped blooms have good form, with a light sweet floral fragrance, that last well when used as a cut flower.
This compact bush grows to just over 1m tall x 80cm wide and is quick to repeat flower in flushes throughout the entire growing season. In South Australia, if the rose is disbudded, it will produce a medium sized flower of approximately 40 petals and will be of good exhibition quality. Flower heads left untouched can produce clusters of 3 to 5 flowers forming a good Floribunda head and as it is registered as a Grandiflora both forms are acceptable. This attractive bi-coloured rose makes an excellent bedding plant or a beautiful specimen plant.
This rose is available from Wagner's Rose Nursery, Newman's Nursery and Treloar Roses.
GOLD MEDAL National Rose Trial Garden of Australia 2005
Text: Dean Stringer
Shrub Rose
(Ausbernard)
In 2010, English rose breeder, David C. H. Austin was acknowledged and honoured as a Great Rosarian of the World. From a hobby breeder as a young teenager David has gone on to breed a collection of over 230 rose varieties many of which are renowned around the world.
David Austin realised his vision of hybridising a new kind of rose crossing modern Hybrid Tea and Floribunda Roses, such as the tough, ever-flowering ‘Iceberg’ with the Old Garden Roses, such as Gallicas, Damasks and Alba Roses, leading to the creation of Austin English Shrub Roses much-admired for their strong perfume, repeat flowering ability, improved disease resistance and wide range of colours. Although his early releases from the 1970s and 1980s had mixed results, over the past two decades he has produced some great roses – very fragrant, repeat flowering and disease resistant with a reasonable vase life. These modern English Shrub Roses are in every rose growing nation and continue to increase in popularity around the world. Many of these English Shrub Roses grew very well under our Australian conditions.
Munstead Wood is a great choice for Rose of the Month. The rose is named after the home and garden built by Gertrude Jekyll in Surrey, England. Introduced to Australia in 2010, it has sumptuous, deep velvety crimson blooms with a wonderful strong Old Rose fragrance showing floral and fruity berry characters. The flowers are cup shaped at first, opening out to reveal a classic old fashioned rosette.
This healthy variety has good disease tolerance and excellent repeat flowering. It grows into a graceful attractive bush of approximately 1m x 1m and is also suitable for a large pot or container.
This rose is available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Newman’s Nursery and Treloar Roses or order it through your local garden centre.
GOLD MEDAL Most Fragrant Rose in Trial Japan
Award of Garden Merit Royal Horticultural Society, UK
Flower of the Year Award 2009 Rustica Magazine France
Text: Melanie Trimper
Shrub Rose
The richly coloured mauve blooms are tightly ruffled and fluted, reminiscent of the Old Garden Roses of past centuries. The rose blooms are highly fragrant with an authentic damask-rose perfume, the loveliest of rose fragrances.
Selected to honour the Late Deane Ross, a well-known Australian authority on roses of the last century. Bred by leading rose hybridist George Thomson in South Australia and released in 2002, George considers this shrub rose one of the loveliest roses he has bred.
The blooms keep well on the bush and as a cutting flower for arrangements. Flowering for 8 months of the year, this rose will tolerate a hot position in the garden where it thrives. Growth is a neat shrub habit, 1m tall and 1m wide and it is also available as an attractive Standard rose for special garden designs.
The ‘Deane Ross’ rose has become a favourite in the collection of Australian bred roses.
Available from Ross Roses
Hybrid Musk
Ballerina was introduced by Mr. J. A. Bentall in the UK in 1937. The rose parentage is unknown.
Although Ballerina is officially classified as a Hybrid Musk, it is like an overgrown Polyantha producing big clusters of little single pale pink flowers with white centres around the stamens.
Ballerina has no scent to speak of but its other attributes make it hard to fault. After the massive first flush of blooms, it has a further flowering in late summer and autumn.
An enthusiast’s rose, Ballerina has a rounded growth habit with mid green foliage and grows up to 1.5m tall and 1.5m wide. This rose is very healthy, disease resistant and very easy to grow in a wide variety of climates. It can be planted and grown as a shrub or it will make a splendid hedge and does not mind being pruned to reduce the height.
Ballerina was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society “Award of Garden Merit” in 1993.
Ballerina is available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Thomas for Roses, Ross Roses, Treloar Roses and Mistydowns.
Text: Sharyn Perrin
KORberuhig
Large-flowered Climber / Pillar
‘Manita’ is a Large-flowered Climber bred by W. Kordes and Sons, in Germany, in 1996. Kordes has earned a reputation for producing vigorous and prolific flowering roses with a focus on healthy plants.
Manita was a winner in the German ADR rose trials in 1997. ADR roses are tested at 11 sites in Germany with emphasis on disease resistance in response to the demand for healthy garden roses.
The semi double, pink blooms have wavy petals with a white centre, bright yellow stamens and a mild fragrance. The blooms average 9cm in diameter with 10 – 16 petals. Manita produces small to large clusters of six to eighteen flowers on a stem which are complemented by healthy glossy green foliage.
The canes are easy to train onto a trellis and will grow 2.5m tall by 2m wide or they can be wrapped around and up a 2m pillar. A great performing rose.
Manita blooms in flushes throughout the growing season and can create a pleasing backdrop in any garden. If chosen to screen off a boundary, the thorns can act as a deterrent to intruders.
This rose can be purchased from Treloar Roses.
AWARDS:
ADR Award Germany 1997
Gold Medal Hradec Kràlove Czech Republic 2000
Certificate of Merit Belfast Northern Ireland 1999
Text: Kelvin Trimper
Floribunda
Flemington Racecourse is a popular Australian bred rose which has been awarded many Championship prizes in Rose Shows across Australia, including Grand Champion in NSW and Victoria. Planted in hundreds for mass display at Flemington Racecourse, in Victoria, for the Melbourne Cup Carnival. Bred by the late Dr. Bruce Chapman of Melbourne and released in 2004 by Ross Roses in South Australia.
Vibrant, rich pink blooms are produced in small clusters of 3 to 5 blooms on a neat, low-growing bush up to 1 metre tall and 1m wide. Its flowering display is for eight months of the year, with a rich colour that does not fade in extreme summer heat. Its light fragrance is pleasant.
This rose is hardy and easy to grow. Ideal as a low hedge, borders, mass display or for the smaller garden with limited space. Also makes an attractive standard rose for special landscaping effects. A colourful choice for every garden.
This rose is available for purchase from Ross Roses (Willunga) and Knight’s Roses (Gawler) and Newman’s Nursery (Tea Tree Gully).
Text: Andrew Ross
(KORwarpeel)
Hybrid Tea
‘Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’ is a Hybrid Tea bred by W. Kordes & Sons in Germany in 1999 and introduced into the USA in 2008 as ‘Speelwark’ which is its registered name. This rose was introduced into Australia by Treloar Roses in 2001 and named to honour Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (1909-2012), who became a much loved public figure who died aged 103. In particular, she was widely respected for her philanthropy and charity work, including support of music. Known for her love of roses, she was one of the very early members of the Heritage Rose movement in Australia.
This rose is highly recommended by many rose growers throughout the world due to its very healthy and vigorous growth. The flowers are medium to large in size with good form and feature a magnificent blend of colours ranging from peach yellow flushed with vermillion and various shades of pink, dependent upon the weather.
The large round blooms have 26 to 40 petals with an average diameter of 12 cm and the rose repeat blooms throughout the season. The height ranges from 0.9m to 1.15m with an average width of approximately 1m. The beautiful flowers have a strong fragrance and large pointed buds which open into exceptional full blooms. Popular with exhibitors, this rose is often displayed in Rose Shows and makes a great display in vases lasting up to 10 days.
Awarded Certificate of Merit in both the National Rose Trial Garden of Australia and Belfast Rose Trials in 2001.
This rose is available from Knight’s Roses, Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Newman’s Nursery and Treloar Roses.
Text: Tony Hanna
Ebb Tide
Maurice Utrillo
Westerland
Pope John Paul II
Baby Boomer
Fire and Ice
Munstead Wood
Deane Ross
Ballerina
Manita
Flemington Racecourse
Dame Elizabeth