Rose Society of South Australia
To encourage, improve, foster and extend the cultivation
and appreciation of the Rose
and appreciation of the Rose
Large Flowered Climber
(Hybrid Wichurana)
The World Federation of Rose Societies (WFRS) holds a World Rose Convention every 3 years. In 2022, this Convention will be held in Adelaide at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 27 October to 3 November.
At each World Convention, all Member Countries vote on a rose to be inducted into the WFRS “Hall of Fame” collection which now numbers 17 modern roses. Over the next 10 months, leading up to the World Rose Convention, one or two “Hall of Fame” roses will feature as “Rose of the Month”.
‘New Dawn’ was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies “Hall of Fame” in 1997. This beautiful, semi-double, light pink modern climbing rose was discovered by Somerset Rose Nursery in New Jersey, USA, in 1930. The rose is a sport of 'Dr. W. Van Fleet'. New Dawn was the first rose plant in the world to be patented which opened the door for thousands of roses to also become patented.
New Dawn is a famous, repeat flowering, vigorous climber which can grow to 3m tall and 5m wide. It produces sweetly fragrant, blush pink blooms borne both singly and in clusters throughout the season with an unusually long flowering period. Reliable and easy to grow, it has glossy green leaves and excellent disease tolerance, especially if it is correctly watered and fertilised. Grow it in full sun and train it onto a trellis, arbour, fence or other garden structure. However, watch out for the vicious thorns.
This rose remains very popular among gardeners and is available from Treloar Roses and rosesalesonline.
Text: Kelvin Trimper
Hybrid Tea
Papa Meilland is a legend in the rose world. This could be due to its name - named in honour of a doyen in the rose breeding world, Antoine Meilland (1884-1971), by his grandson and head of the family-owned business, Alain Meilland. More likely, its worldwide fame is due to its beautiful, velvety, dark crimson colour and magnificent, strong, old rose fragrance. This rose was bred in France and introduced in 1963 by Meilland International.
Individual flowers, borne singly on straight stems are up to 12cm wide with up to 40 petals, creating a large, full, round bloom when completely open. It has regular flushes of flowers throughout the growing season.
Papa Meilland is a relatively low bush for a Hybrid Tea, approximately 1.2m high and 1m wide, making it suitable for the front row of a bed of roses. It is reasonably disease resistant and suits warm climates.
The popularity of this rose was highlighted when it was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies' Rose Hall of Fame in 1988.
Papa Meilland is a timeless classic rose and a most appropriate choice for February, as we celebrate Valentine’s Day. It is available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Newman’s Nursery and Treloar Roses.
AWARDS: GOLD MEDAL - Baden-Baden Germany and Fragrance Award - Geneva 1962
Another classic red Hybrid Tea which was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the year 2000 was Ingrid Bergman, named for the famous actress. This fragrant red rose, bred by Poulsen, is a very good variety available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery.
Hybrid Tea
Elina is a very prolific, constantly flowering Hybrid Tea rose bred by the Dickson family in Northern Ireland in 1983 and released in 1984. Growing to a height of 1.75m and a width of 1.2m, Elina can produce up to 5 dozen blooms per flush. As it can have up to 5 flushes per year in our moderate climate, each plant can produce 25 dozen roses per year – a rare feat for Hybrid Tea roses.
Elina’s perfect classic rose shape, long straight stems, mild fragrance and attractive foliage ensures it is a popular cut flower variety as well as a wonderful feature plant in the garden. Each rich cream coloured flower comprises around 25 petals.
Very tough and disease resistant, this rose thrives in our hot dry climate, producing many flowers throughout the season. Inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies’ Rose Hall of Fame in 2006, it is one of the world’s most popular cream-coloured roses and justifies its great reputation.
Elina is available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery and Treloar Roses.
AWARDS:
GOLD STAR of the South Pacific – New Zealand 1987
SILVER MEDAL – Glasgow UK 1991
Floribunda
(KORbin)
When famous Rose Breeder Sam McGredy IV was asked if he had to choose just one rose to take to an island paradise, what it would be? He answered, “Iceberg”. Another rose expert, Eric Trimper, said, “Iceberg will never let you down.”
Iceberg was hybridized in 1958 by Reimer Kordes in Germany and is one of the world’s most popular Floribunda roses. A universal best-seller for decades, it is well known for its hardiness in all rose-growing regions tolerating both hot and cold temperature extremes. Two recent sports are ‘Brilliant Pink Iceberg’ and ‘Burgundy Iceberg’.
Iceberg can be grown as a tall bush, a well performing climber or excellent standard. Popular with home gardeners and professional landscapers, it is seen everywhere. It is famous for its low maintenance and rapid repeat flowering, producing large and small clusters of beautifully shaped white double blooms all season long with the added benefit of healthy leaves and good disease tolerance.
Flowers are generally borne in clusters of up to 7 blooms per stem. Each flower has up to 35 soft, delicate white petals and displays an attractive fruity fragrance, sometimes displaying a blush of pink in cold weather.
The bush grows to 1.5m x 1.5m and its consistent growth and size make it perfect for use as a 90cm standard rose. It is the most commonly used standard rose for fences, borders or public spaces in Australia. It is also excellent as a potted rose. Generally, avoid severe pruning.
Iceberg deserves its iconic reputation having won Gold Medals in numerous rose trials around the world and was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies’ Rose Hall of Fame in 1983.
Iceberg is available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Knight’s Roses, Newman’s Nursery, Treloar Roses and from all good Garden Centres.
Another classic white rose which was inducted into the Rose Hall of Fame in the year 1991 was Pascali, named for the famous artist. This Hybrid Tea rose, bred by Lens in 1963, produces quality blooms on a tall bush and is available from Treloar Roses.
Text : Melanie Trimper
Hybrid Tea
(ANDeli)
Double Delight was bred and introduced in 1977 by USA rose breeders Swim and Ellis. First, it is one of the world’s most popular bi-coloured roses and secondly, its rich, fruity, spicy fragrance has set the benchmark for measuring perfume in a rose.
No one knows whether its name refers to the two contrasting colours in its blooms, or the ‘double delight’ is its colour and fragrance.
Each flower is approximately 12 to 15 cms and is delightful from bud to full bloom and comprises around 30 petals in creamy white edged in carmine. Double Delight makes a great cut flower and the bush repeat flowers very quickly all season long.
It is not an overly vigorous Hybrid Tea, growing into a neat bush 1.2m tall and 0.9 wide. Its size and growth are easy to manage, making it perfect in rose beds, as a standard or container grown rose.
Generally hardy, the plant does occasionally get a touch of mildew but this is not really a problem in our hot dry climate. Double Delight has received the highest praise and a multitude of awards including Gold Medals in Germany and Italy in 1976, a fragrance award in Switzerland in 1976 and inclusion in the All-America Rose Selections in 1977. It was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies Rose Hall of Fame in 1985.
Double Delight is available from Knight’s Roses, Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Newman’s Nursery, Treloar Roses and all good garden centres.
Text Kelvin Trimper
Grandifora
“Queen Elizabeth” also known as “Queen of England” and “Queen Elizabeth Rose” was bred by Dr. Walter Lammerts in the USA. It has been regarded as one of the world’s most popular roses since its introduction in 1954 and named to recognise Queen Elizabeth II ascension to the throne in 1952.
This very tall growing Grandiflora Rose produces large, (35 to 40 petals), high-centred, medium pink blooms on long straight stems, ensuring its suitability for arrangements. The classification ‘Grandiflora’ indicates that roses are produced both singly and in clusters. The long, elegant buds of darker pink open to moderately fragrant blooms.
The bush has good repeat flowering all season long from spring to late autumn and is disease tolerant and almost thornless with dark green, tough leathery foliage. It’s slender upright habit, up to 3m high and 1m wide, is ideal for the back of rose beds to provide added depth or screen off an area.
This rose won a Gold Medal in Portland in 1954, the AARS Award in 1955, ARS Gold Medal in 1957 and Golden Rose of The Hague in 1968. It was inducted into the WFRS Rose Hall of Fame, voted one of the world’s favourite roses, in 1979. This is a truly great rose deserving a place in all gardens. A climbing sport of this rose was found and introduced in 1957.
Available from Wagner’s Rose Nursery and Treloar Roses.
Text: Melanie Trimper
Hybrid Tea
CANjujo
Just Joey was bred by Cants of Colchester, England, in 1972. It was named for the wife of the Managing Director of Cants of Colchester, Joey Pawsey. When Mr. Roger Pawsey asked her precisely what the name of the rose should be, she answered, “Just Joey”.
After 50 years, this Hybrid Tea is still very popular and it performs well throughout Australia and there are many fine specimens in Adelaide gardens. The plant is very well behaved and generally achieves a height of 1.5m and width of 1.2m. Flowers are borne one per stem and can be of immense size up to 16cm in spring and autumn, slightly smaller during Summer. The bush is disease and heat tolerant.
The flower is an eye-catching rich apricot colour with a loose, informal centre of pretty frilled petals. Probably its most seductive feature is its intense, spicy fragrance which will quickly fill a room, when a bunch is placed in a vase. This perfume is inherited from its parents (Fragrant Cloud x Dr. A.J. Verhage) also renowned for their strong scent. When introduced, its colour and size of flowers were considered innovative breakthroughs in rose breeding.
Just Joey received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1993 and was voted the world’s favourite rose when it was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies’ Hall of Fame in 1994.
This lovely rose is readily available from good garden centres and specialist rose nurseries, including Newman’s Nursery, Wagner’s Rose Nursery, Knight’s Roses and Treloar Roses.
‘Fragrant Cloud’, was bred by Tantau and released in 1963, and was also recognised by the World Federation of Rose Societies and induced into the Hall of Fame in 1981.
Text: Melanie Trimper
(Large Flowered Climber)
‘Pierre de Ronsard’ is a moderately vigorous, climbing rose ideal to cover an arch or small trellis. Bred in France, by Meilland and introduced in 1987, Pierre de Ronsard is a very disease resistant rose and creates a magnificent spring flush. The 7 - 10cm globular flowers, comprising 55 to 60 petals, are an attractive creamy white suffused with carmine pink borne singularly or in clusters up to 4 blooms per stem. Adding to its seductive, colourful display these flowers have a light, tea rose fragrance. Flowers last reasonably well when picked for floral arrangements. This rose has performed well throughout the world and thrives in our South Australian climate.
When grown against an arch, the plant can achieve heights around 3 metres, so it is preferable to plant a rose each side of the arch to achieve a complete and even cover in 3 to 4 years. Regular removal of spent blooms will ensure repeat and constant flowering throughout the growing season. Pierre de Ronsard does have a few thorns implying the arch needs to be at least 1.5m wide to avoid being caught by thorns. For romantics, an arch of Pierre de Ronsard provides a classic rose framework and excellent feature in a garden.
The name honours Pierre de Ronsard (B.1524 - D.1585) who was a famous French Poet in the 16th Century. He enjoyed a great life: educated, well-travelled, highly productive, popular and he mixed socially, as friends, with royals such as King Charles of France, Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots. His own generation, in France, called him the “Prince of Poets”.
Inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies’ Rose Hall of Fame in 2006.
Due to its popularity, Pierre de Ronsard is readily available from garden centres and nurseries, including specialist nurseries: Knight’s Roses, Wagner’s Rose Nursery and Treloar Roses.
Another great small Climber is ‘Cocktail’, also bred by Meilland and introduced in 1957. Its single flowers are geranium red on the edge of the petal with a yellow centre. It was inducted into the Rose Hall of Fame in 2015.
Text: Melanie Trimper
(Large Flowered Climber)
‘Pierre de Ronsard’ is a moderately vigorous, climbing rose ideal to cover an arch or small trellis. Bred in France, by Meilland and introduced in 1987, Pierre de Ronsard is a very disease resistant rose and creates a magnificent spring flush. The 7 - 10cm globular flowers, comprising 55 to 60 petals, are an attractive creamy white suffused with carmine pink borne singularly or in clusters up to 4 blooms per stem. Adding to its seductive, colourful display these flowers have a light, tea rose fragrance. Flowers last reasonably well when picked for floral arrangements. This rose has performed well throughout the world and thrives in our South Australian climate.
When grown against an arch, the plant can achieve heights around 3 metres, so it is preferable to plant a rose each side of the arch to achieve a complete and even cover in 3 to 4 years. Regular removal of spent blooms will ensure repeat and constant flowering throughout the growing season. Pierre de Ronsard does have a few thorns implying the arch needs to be at least 1.5m wide to avoid being caught by thorns. For romantics, an arch of Pierre de Ronsard provides a classic rose framework and excellent feature in a garden.
The name honours Pierre de Ronsard (B.1524 - D.1585) who was a famous French Poet in the 16th Century. He enjoyed a great life: educated, well-travelled, highly productive, popular and he mixed socially, as friends, with royals such as King Charles of France, Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots. His own generation, in France, called him the “Prince of Poets”.
Inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies’ Rose Hall of Fame in 2006.
Due to its popularity, Pierre de Ronsard is readily available from garden centres and nurseries, including specialist nurseries: Knight’s Roses, Wagner’s Rose Nursery and Treloar Roses.
Another great small Climber is ‘Cocktail’, also bred by Meilland and introduced in 1957. Its single flowers are geranium red on the edge of the petal with a yellow centre. It was inducted into the Rose Hall of Fame in 2015.
Text: Melanie Trimper
Hybrid Tea
‘Peace’ is a superstar in the rose world. It was also known as 'Madame A. Meilland’ and considered the most popular selling rose of the 20th century. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of ‘Peace’ had been sold. In 1976, it was voted the World's Favourite Rose and the first inductee into the World Federation of Rose Societies’ Rose Hall of Fame.
Francis Meilland (1912 - 1958) is especially remembered for his legendary rose 'Peace' which was bred in 1935. Just before Germany's invasion of France, Francis sent cuttings of the new cultivar to rose growers in Europe and to their agent Conard-Pyle in the USA. Francis named the rose, ‘Madame Antoine Meilland,’ after his late mother, Claudia. In the USA, the new rose was released in 1945, the same day that Germany surrendered. The rose was named, 'Peace', in the USA, to mark the end of the war. It was an immediate success worldwide.
As Meilland sent out his cuttings just before the war, communication between the rose introducers was not possible, which is why the rose received different names. Other names are Gioia (Italian for "joy"), in Germany Gloria Dei (Latin for "Glory of God") and in the USA, Scandinavia and Australia it was named ‘Peace’.
Peace has large light-yellow flowers, enhanced with pink edges. The colour combinations depend on the location, weather and fading as the flower ages. The durable flowers are very full, with 40 - 43 petals and have a sweet fruity fragrance. It flowers continuously throughout the season, is hardy and relatively resistant to disease and grows 1.2m tall and 1.25m wide. This variety is used as a garden rose, as a standard rose or in containers.
Awards: Gold medals in Lyon (1942), Portland USA (1944), The Hague (1965) and UK (1947) and All-America Rose Selection (1944). WFRS’ Rose Hall of Fame (1976).
Available from Knight’s Roses, Wagner’s Rose Nursery and Treloar Roses and all good Garden Centres.
Text: Melanie Trimper
Shrub Rose
(RADraz
Hardy, healthy and attractive with great repeat flowering or continuous flowering Knock Out® Roses have the most flower power of any shrub rose. It was inducted into the World Federation of Rose Societies Hall of Fame in 2018.
The multi-award winning ‘Knock Out’ set a new standard in disease resistance with very little maintenance required and was recognised as a breakthrough landscape rose when it was released 22 years ago. Knock Out is extremely tough, Black Spot resistant, drought tolerant and self-cleaning. Record-breaking sales have earned it the reputation as the world’s number one Rose Brand.
Knock Out now offers a wide range of colours (a total of 11 varieties in all). The collection in Australia now includes Knock Out, Double Knock Out, Pink Knock Out, Pink Double Knock Out, Blushing Knock Out and a fragrant Sunny Knock Out released in 2020, (and more to follow).
The original ‘Knock Out’ was bred by amateur rose breeder Will Radler in the USA in 1989 and was introduced in 2000. It is cherry-red with abundant and continuous flowering and deep green foliage. The bush is 1.2m x 1.2m. These roses have bushy growth, disease resistant foliage, large flowers, beautiful buds and bloom constantly in our region, creating a brilliant garden display.
Knock Out is available from Knight’s Roses and Wagner’s Rose Nursery in South Australia. Also available from garden centres across SA (Lewis Horticulture & Adelaide Plant Growers supply commercially to all sectors).
AWARDS:
Gold Medal - National Rose Trial Garden of Australia Adelaide 2005
All America Rose Selection Winner American Rose Society USA, 2000
Hall of Fame - World Federation of Rose Societies, 2018
Text: Kelvin Trimper
Shrub Rose
(NOAtraum)
‘Flower Carpet Pink’ was inducted into the WFRS Rose Hall of Fame at the 19th World Rose Convention in Adelaide in October 2022. World-wide sales of this rose now exceed 100 million plants in 34 years.
Werner Noack (1927-2022) bred Flower Carpet® Pink in Germany in 1988 and he was one of the first to market these new varieties as “ground cover roses”. Flower Carpet Pink was introduced in Australia in 1991 by Anthony Tesselaar Plants, based in Victoria.
These roses captured the imagination of all gardeners but particularly non-gardeners. No deadheading and no routine spraying is required, simply an annual prune, a thick layer of mulch to smother weeds and regular water in the first year. Their well-developed root system means they are very drought tolerant once established.
Flower Carpet® Pink features small carmine semi-double blooms, produced in clusters almost continuously, with arching, bushy and spreading growth (60 to 80cm tall x 1m wide) with rich glossy, disease-resistant foliage.
This is one of the most disease-resistant roses ever bred, ideal for both home gardeners and professional landscapers wanting low-maintenance colour. With bushes smothered in flowers, it is great for mass plantings, borders, hedging and large containers.
There is no better proof of performance than multi-year trials held around the world. To date, the Flower Carpet collection has received 11 gold medals and 14 other international awards. Flower Carpet® now has 12 varieties in the collection.
Available from Anthony Tesselaar Plants, Garden Express and most Garden Centres.
Text: Melanie Trimper
Photo: Courtesy Anthony Tesselaar Plants
New Dawn
Papa Meilland
Elina
Iceberg
Double Delight
Queen Elizabeth
Just Joey
Pierre de Ronsard
Graham Thomas
Peace
Knock Out
Flower Carpet Pink