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Hybrid Tea. Celebrate your love of NZ with this beautiful rose. The perfect buds open to fragrant blooms shaded a rich salmon pink. A strong healthy, hardy rose with disease resistant foliage. Lovely to pick. Released by Sam McGredy in 1990 to mark this country’s 150th anniversary.

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Hybrid Tea Std. Celebrate your love of NZ with this beautiful rose. The perfect buds open to fragrant blooms shaded a rich salmon pink. A strong healthy plant with disease resistant foliage. Lovely to pick. 1989.

Aotearoa was released by Sam McGredy in 1990 to mark this country’s 150th anniversary

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Hybrid Tea. A superb picking or exhibition rose with lovely intense apricot large, double blooms forms. Moderate fragrance. Healthy foliage and a strong, delightful scent as long as grown in an open sunny position.

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Tea. An outstanding Rose with open flat flowers that have a multitude of petals. The blooms are a pleasing blend of pink, copper and soft orange. The foliage is dark and glossy and the stems have few thorns. A delightful fragrance and generosity of bloom complete the picture. France 1872.

This rose is sometimes confused with Monsieur Tillier and vice versa as they are very similar in appearance however they are definitely different. Archiduc Joseph was named after a great plant collector - Archduke Joseph of Austro-Hungary.

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Hybrid Tea. Perfectly shaped and scented cherry red blooms ideal for picking. Bred by Bob Matthews of Mathews Roses, NZ, this rose is ideally suited to New Zealand conditions and would be an outstanding addition to any garden. Healthy glossy foliage.

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Hybrid Tea Std 80cm. Perfect cherry red blooms ideal for picking. Bred by Bob Matthews of Mathews Roses, NZ, this rose is ideally suited to New Zealand conditions and would be an outstanding addition to any garden. Healthy glossy foliage.

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Climber. Add a touch of gold to the garden with this lovely climbing rose. The beautiful apricot buds open to large, fragrant, well formed blooms of deep golden yellow. Use to decorate a wall or fence, a vigorous grower but well behaved all the same. Lovely for picking. 1982.

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Floribunda. Vigorous medium growing upright plant with nice glossy foiliage. These striking golden-apricot blooms are 'a stand out' in the garden. Produced in clusters, the blooms have a pleasing light scent. Bred by Somerfield. 2021.

This was a Certificate of Merit winner at the New Zealand Rose Society Trials in Palmerston North 2021.

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Hybrid Tea. This rose looks most beautiful when fully open. Powerfully fragrant with perfect-creamy white blooms, exceptionally free flowering. Great rose for picking for vase display. We have this in our garden at Wairere and it never fails to please. 1990.

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Climber, Azubis is a vigorous, shrub with thorny stems bearing pinnate leaves with ovate, toothed, dark green leaflets and clusters of large, strongly fragrant, fully double, high-centered, mauve to lavender flowers smother the bush with many repeats from summer into autumn. Deciduous.