Hybrid Tea Pillar. A very hard rose to describe adequately with words, you really need a picture painted by the artist it is named after. Carmine red buds open to orange pink blooms with cream stripes and a hint of soft yellow. Nice light, fruity fragrance. Flamboyant! 1992. PVR.

Hybrid Tea. This rose is really a Hybrid Tea/Floribunda cross. Delicious and delightfully different, the blooms are elegantly poised with ruffled petals in a warm golden amber colour. Fragrant flowers smother this strong, healthy compact bush. PVR. 2000. Deciduous

Floribunda. Bred in NZ and when first released demand outstripped supply. A uniquely coloured perpetual flowering rose with trusses of warm brown blooms overlaid with deep orange. Nice light fragrance with good upright growth. Gold Medal winner. 1983.

Hybrid Tea. A beautiful very large, cup shaped flowers of deep cream, often quartered. Fragrant flowers on healthy easy-care, disease resistant bush. Nice for picking. Named in association with Columba's College, Dunedin -100th centenary Deciduous.

Bourbon. Firstly, this Rose has nothing to do with Vince Martin! Originating from France in 1874 it grows into a tall shrub that flowers abundantly in summer. The blooms are beautifully fragrant, fully double, globular and rose pink with splashes of deep carmine. Light green, healthy foliage

Commandant Beaurepaire was a French Army officer (1740-1792). His name can be found engraved on the Arch de Triomphe in Paris.

Portland. A unusual rose with grey green foliage and large flowers of rich warm pink that emit a heady fragrance. The continuously produced flowers are excellent for cutting. Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Truly lovely and a reliable performer. 1863.

China. This is such a pretty rose bred in France in 1902. The almost single blooms are shades of soft orange and pink highlighted with red. And oh the perfume. Flowers from summer to autumn. Lovely. Assume named after Zoe Talon AKA Comtesse du Cayla and mistress of Louis XVIII.

Hybrid Tea Std. A superb new generation rose bred for high health and low maintenance. Along with that you get drop dead gorgeous, vivid crimson blooms that sit well above the foliage. Sturdy compact bush and of course it repeats well. Winner of an International award for excellence. PVR

Polyantha Std Weeper. Glossy green foliage and clusters of dainty white blooms that are slightly frilled and ruffled. A vigorous trouble free rose that is a really pretty in full bloom. This rose is a natural mutation of the popular 'The Fairy'. Lightly scented. 2001.

My favourite old Hybrid Tea and often described as one of the loveliest roses ever bred. Bright rose pink single flowers with prominent dark pink stamens. Sweetly scented. Strong upright growth habit and generally healthy foliage. Repeats well. 1925.