Hybrid Tea. Mamma Mia has super large formal buds that open to huge, quartered, flat blooms in tones of apricot and salmon pink held atop luscious green foliage on long stems. This rose has a lovely strong fragrance and the flowers are great for picking. Deciduous. PVR

Floribunda. This award winning rose has dark shiny foliage and slender pink rose buds that open to blush pink cupped blooms. The sweetly scented flowers appear continuously throughout the summer. With good disease resistance this is overall just a lovely rose. 1991.

The perfect gift for someone special. Even the non-gardener would find it hard to resist this lovely rose. Perhaps pot one up and 'present'.

Floribunda. There probably aren't enough superlatives to describe this excellent white rose. The petals are richly textured with just a little blush of colour in the centre offset by warm bronze stamens. Multi award winner including one for fragrance. Disease resistant. 10 out of 10! 1978.

Floribunda Std. There probably aren't enough superlatives to describe this excellent white rose. The petals are richly textured with a little blush in the centre. Warm bronze stamens off set the flowers. Multi award winner including one for fragrance. 10 out of 10! 1978.

Disease resistant.

Floribunda Std. There probably aren't enough superlatives to describe this excellent white rose. The petals are richly textured with a little blush in the centre. Warm bronze stamens off set the flowers. Multi award winner including one for fragrance. Disease resistant. 10 out of 10!

Hybrid Tea. Delightfully fragrant, hybrid tea has large double, cupped, dark carmine pink blooms. This lovely vigorous rose adorns itself profusely in flowers in summer. Vigorous, healthy plant, shows good disease resistance.

Moss. The stems and buds of this lovely rose are decorated with reddish green furry 'moss'. The buds open to large, rich pink, informal blooms that are very fragrant and quite frilly. Repeats well and is easy to grow. Prune lightly after flowering. From France 1852.

Patio rose. This multi award winning shrublet ticks all the boxes for no fuss gardening! Compact, continuous flowering with clusters of true red flowers, dancing above lush dense foliage. Bred by Kordes Rosen of Germany.

Austin Std Rose. A vigorous grower with mid green foliage and masses of sweetly scented, cup shaped, clear pink blooms that darken slightly as they mature. Flowers from summer to autumn, good disease resistance, easy to grow.

Floribunda. Light orange red blooms with white reverse and edges of petals. Free-flowering all summer on a healthy and compact bush. Bred by Sam McCready 1975. One of the handpainted roses, that is, it appears an artist has hand-painted the flower edges in a different colour. Lovely!

The first plant to be protected by Plant Variety Rights (PVR) legislation in New Zealand.