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Hybrid Tea. Shapely pointed buds opening to brilliant scarlet-orange, luminous blooms on a big healthy bush. Growth upright with strong stems. Great for picking and very elegant in tall arrangements. Good disease resistance. Seldom disappoints. 1972.

This rose was bred by Harkness Roses of England and was named to honour Earl Alexander of Tunis who was a British General during World War II - the breeder served with the General during the war.

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Hybrid Tea, Shrub. Elegant, perfectly formed blooms of deep salmon, lasting for ages when cut. The fragrance is magnificent and wonderfully rich, much like an expensive Parisian perfume. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

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aka Devotion

Hybrid Tea. An elegant rose with richly coloured (unfading) blooms that are shades of warm apricot and amber. Long, strong stems hold the flowers well and are perfect for picking. Plenty of blooms from summer to autumn. Nice soft fragrance and an upright and bushy habit. 2003.

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Hybrid Tea. Double blooms which are a subtle blend of apricot, amber and pink. Really pretty. The flowers are very fragrant, well spaced and produced regularly in large clusters. Strong compact, healthy bush. 1985.

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Hybrid Tea. A beautiful rose bred by Mr McGredy. Strong growth habit and large flowers of rich cream edged red. The outer petals suffuse to soft pink. Classic long stemmed buds which are perfect for picking. Nice soft fragrance. Recommended. PVR.

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aka New Zealand

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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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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aka Black Caviar

Hybrid Tea. Named in honor of Astrid Grafin Von Hardenberg of Germany this award winning rose is sure to delight. Full, double, dark red, 'old fashioned' blooms with a beautiful fragrance. Repeats well and the strong foliage shows good disease resistance. 2001.

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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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Hybrid Tea. Bright yellow blooms, sometimes with a flush of red. Fragrant.

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Hybrid Tea. This is just a beautiful rose that was awarded Rose of the Year in 2002. Very fragrant, double, cerise pink blooms. Healthy tall bush. Perfect for a gift or memorial for that special friend in your life. A lovely picking rose for a floral display. 1998.

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Hybrid Tea. Vigorous uptight growing plant with elegantly shaped double blooms in shifting shades of butter gold to lemon. Great picked rose, pleasant fragrance. 2025 release Bred by Kordes Rosen of Germany.

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Hybrid Tea. Big Purple. The large blooms are a beautiful purple–magenta in color complimented of course by a huge fragrance like so many roses in this color shade. Blooms continuously from summer through to autumn. Fantastic for picking.

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Hybrid Tea. Absolutely drop dead gorgeous blooms of velvety deep garnet-red from ebony black buds. Good bushy habit and dark green foliage. Delicate perfume, continuous flowering from spring through to autumn. Yum Yum you've got to have one. 1973.

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Hybrid Tea. An excellent rose with healthy, disease resistant foliage, seductively scented, long-stemmed, deep purple blooms that are perfect to pick and last well in a vase. Stunning addition to any garden and bred right here in NZ by Rob Somerfield. 1996. Multi Award Winner.

Rob Somerfield says this rose is "named after the liqueur 'Blackberry Nip' that many will remember from our past. I'm afraid my memory of it is not a great one - my fault as I somewhat over indulged, now days I would choose to drink in the scent of this beautiful rose rather than the liqueur!

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Hybrid tea. A hybrid tea of classic form with very fragrant buds of lilac-blue to almost lavender. Upright growth with good foliage. Certainly one of the best of the 'blues'. Seldom disappoints and flowers well throughout the season. 1964.

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Hybrid Tea. Elegant buds that open into double, high centred blooms shaded a lovely deep lilac blue with a strong fragrance. Free flowering and an excellent picking rose. 1982.

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Hybrid Tea. This free flowering hybrid tea has lovely large full blooms of rich cream set against dark green foliage. The blooms have a light sweet scent. Nice dense habit and shows good disease resistance. Excellent for picking and exhibition. 1988.

This rose is also known as Caroline de Monaco and was named after Princess Caroline of Monaco after she selected the rose when visiting Meilland's Nursery in France.

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aka Eternally Yours

Hybrid Tea. A rose with beautiful, large, shapely blooms of deep crimson-maroon with a hint of silver on the reverse of the petals. Nice light fragrance and good repeat flowering. Resistant to disease. 1994 AKA 'Eternally Yours'.

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Hybrid Tea. Unique antique pink buds open into light coffee-coloured blooms aging with hints of blush pink. A floral artist's dream, this distinctively stunning rose is ideal for picking. Repeat flowering, hardy and robust grower. Bred by Bob Matthews.

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Hybrid Tea. A rose of medium height that has perfectly formed soft salmon-pink blooms on a dense bushy plant, and a sweet spicy fragrance. Lovely for picking and really very beautiful in a bouquet. Bred by Sam McGredy.

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Hybrid Tea. Catherine has a soft pink, creamy buds which open into vibrant pink flowers. The blooms, have a lovely soft fragrance, and sparkle on bronze-green foliage. A hardy bush rose. Bred by Bob Matthews, and named for his wife.

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aka Celebration or Myriam

Hybrid Tea. Very fragrant, very double and very large, quartered, pearl pink flowers. Vigorous healthy bush. Lovely as a gift for a special friend or family member who will really celebrate with the beauty of this delightful rose. 1991.

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Hybrid Tea. A modern twist on an old favourite. With beautiful soft yellow blooms with a hint of pink on the outer petals, the rose is complimented by rich green foliage. Nice compact bush with few thorns. A lovely light fragrance completes the picture. Bred by Bob Matthews.

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Hybrid Tea. Very fragrant hybrid tea with large, velvety, opulent blooms in a strong magenta pink shade. The fragrance has won this rose several international awards. Repeats well from summer to autumn. Nice, tidy compact bush.

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Hybrid Tea. Bred from everyone's favourite rose 'Peace', with many inherent attributes. 'Chicago Peace' has large flowers and rich colour tones of deep yellow overlaid with copper and orange. Nice light fragrance. Good for cutting, strong healthy rose. 1962.

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aka AKA Terracotta

Hybrid Tea. This tall growing rose has fat rounded buds that open to full, heavy blooms. A blend of warm rusty-red, brown and pink set of by nice dark green foliage. Sweet soft fragrance and repeats well. Winner of a Certificate of Merit.

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Hybrid Tea. Named for NZ's largest city so you know this rose is going to be really showy. Large shapely double blooms of deep tangerine orange with a hint of gold. Good strong fragrance, free flowering. Nice picking rose. 1982.

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Hybrid Tea. 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.

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Hybrid Tea. Deep red flowers with a gold reverse, perfectly formed with a lovely centre. Very large and full, borne mostly solitary bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Large, glossy, dark green foliage. Mild fragrant.

Bred by Wilhelm Kordes III Germany, before 1993).

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Hybrid Tea. A really attractive classic rose with well formed creamy white and pink blend blooms. Good strong stems and a nice heady fragrance. The overall effect is quite soft and pretty so ideal for adding a soft romantic look to the garden. 1993.

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A large flowering, slightly fragrant hybrid tea rose. Large well-formed soft pink flowers are produced throughout the growing season on tall stems. Medium green glossy foliage. Ideal for cutting and can be used for hedging.

Kordes 1979.

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Hybrid Tea. Exquisitely beautiful cream blooms with a warm coffee glow in the centre. The blooms are fully double when open and deliciously fragrant. Nice compact habit. Multi Award winner even with 1st for fragrance. You'll want to plant more than one of these.

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Hybrid Tea. 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. 1999.

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aka Crimson Glory

Hybrid Tea. Rather glorious, large blooms of deep crimson-red that carry a strong fragrance. Dark green foliage. Likes a nice sheltered spot to perform to its best. Bred in Germany 1935.

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Hybrid Tea. Unique champagne coffee coloured flowers with tones of soft silvery beige. Wonderful for picking and floral art with a perfect bud formation and long stems. Bred by Bob Matthews. Make sure to take extra care at planting time for this one of a kind variety.

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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.

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Hybrid Tea. Deep, deliciously perfumed blooms exude their aroma above contrasting dark burgundy foliage. The opulent purple flowers are elegantly borne, great to pick with few thorns, repeatedly produced on a hardy plant. Bred in France by Pierre Orard. Award Winner.

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Hybrid Tea. From NZ Breeder Rob Somerfield comes an exceptionally beautiful rose. The large blooms are tightly packed with petals and are toned soft cream with blush pink edges. Glossy deep green foliage that shows good disease resistance. Repeats well from summer to autumn. 2010.

This rose has already won a Certificate of Merit and the breeder says "this rose has exceptional vase life" for those who can't resist picking your blooms. Pacific Rose Bowl Festival 2019 New Zealand Rose of the Year Trial winners Awarded Best Hybrid Tea Rose

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Hybrid Tea. Bred by Matthews Roses to celebrate 60 years of rose growing in NZ, this exquisite rose is shaded softest yellow in the centre gradually fading out to warm cream. Very decorative in the vase or garden. Strong compact growth habit and lovely fragrance. Award Winner. 2007

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Hybrid Tea. This rose is worth growing for the amazing scent alone. But wait there's more ....very double, lilac mauve flowers appear in big clusters on a strong healthy plant. Recommended. A rose with great dignity! 2002.

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Hybrid Tea. A free-flowering rose that has medium-sized blooms blending from bright tangerine to orange with bronze on the edges. Gorgeous old world fragrance and good repeat flowering. All this on a hardy, upright bush that has very few thorns. Just a delight.

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Hybrid Tea. Classic buds open to creamy blooms highlighted with a pinkish-red blush on the edges of the petals. Continuously in flower and strong spicy fragrant. Always pleases and lives up to its name. Exceptional cut-flower variety. Multi award winner from 1977.

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Hybrid Tea. If you are looking for a top performing, fragrant yellow rose then it would be hard to go past this reliable beauty. Well formed golden yellow blooms on nice long stems appear regularly throughout the season. Vigorous, upright grower that is generally healthy. 1978.

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Hybrid Tea. This is one of Lloyd's favourite roses so you know that it is just lovely 'cause he's got good taste. Exhibition quality, fragrant blooms of pale creamy-yellow are produced continuously throughout summer. A robust and reliable bush with dark green foliage. Multi-award winner. 1985.

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Climber. Attractively hanging heads of crimson-scarlet Hybrid Tea flowers. Vigorous growth. Summer flowering, with a few blooms later on. Strong Old Rose fragrance. Bred by Albert Norman (UK, before 1940).

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Hybrid Tea. Stunning new release yellow flowers which holds its colour well. Perfect for picking and has great disease resistence. Bred in NZ by Rob Somerfield 2025 new release.

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Hybrid Tea. A magnificent sensual rose with flowers of dark velvet crimson red and a heady erotic perfume. Erotica is very free flowering, and proven to have a healthy, hardy growth habit. Flowers have a true hybrid tea form and are just perfect for picking. Exquisite.

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Hybrid Tea. A pretty rose with semi-double flowers of soft yellow/orange that fade to a gentle yellow/pink. Nearly always in flower and the blooms weather really well. A lovely gift to use as a special memorial. Bred in NZ 1999.

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Hybrid Tea. The rich glossy green foliage accentuates the warm golden-apricot blooms with their swirling petals. Nice fragrance to satisfy the senses. A lovely rose to give as a gift or use as a special memorial. Nice pact plant. 2001.

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Hybrid Tea. They say you never forget your first love and I still remember the first time I saw this lovely rose. I just loved it! The exquisite pointed buds open to fragrant pretty pink blooms that appear continuously from summer to autumn. Beautiful. 1951.

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Hybrid Tea. A beautifully formed rose of an amazing salmon-orange colouring, with a delightful perfume. Free flowering with healthy foliage. Can be used for cut flower or garden. Very vigorous.

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Hybrid Tea. As the name suggests this rose is superbly scented. Free flowering with vermilion red blooms of some substance making them ideal for exhibiting or a vase. Strong deep green glossy foliage. Flowers from summer through to autumn. Multi Award Winner including one for fragrance.1964.

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Hybrid Tea. A wonderfully robust, free flowering rose with deep rich yellow blooms that don't fade. The flowers are fragrant and large with a generous amount of petals. Superb rose for bedding or hedges. Multi award winner and deservedly so. 1984.

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Hybrid Tea Crisp pink blooms set among dark green foliage. Extremely disease resistant and healthy. Winner of a Gold Medal and International rose trials in Baden Baden 2025. This rose will be exclusive to Wairere Nursery in 2026. It has a light fragrance and grows with a bushy compact form which extends down to the ground.

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Hybrid Tea. Silver lavender petals unfurl with hints of frosted blue to grey. This uniquely coloured rose has a pleasant fragrance and healthy foliage. Displays well when picked. New release 2025 from Matthews in association with international rose breeders.

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Hybrid Tea. This fragrant rose has an unusual an striking appearance with long apricot buds opening to large apricot/orange flowers. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

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Hybrid Tea. Superbly healthy, glossy green foliage complemented by simply gorgeous or should we say 'Glorious' large yellow blooms. Fragrant, easy care and definitely a must have. Perfect for picking. 2001. NZ Rose of the Year 2006.

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Hybrid Tea. Gorgeous blooms of deep gold, tinged with copper appear reliably and regularly on this free flowering upright bush. Good disease resistance. A trouble free rose that has remained a firm favourite since 1983 for a very good reason - it's a 'goodie'.

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Hybrid Tea. A classic, perfectly formed star-shaped, rose with superb deep yellow flowers of some substance. Gold Strike has lush deep green glossy foliage and a strong upright growth habit. Nice scent too - really lovely.

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Hybrid Tea. This superb rose is the last to be bred by the international Rosarian Sam McGredy. A beautiful blend of cream, peach, apricot and salmon, with the darker tones towards the centre fading beautifully to the outer petals. Fragrant, disease resistant and sturdy. 2007.

Awarded best hybrid tea at the Pacific Rose Bowl Rose 2011

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A rich cerise well formed bloom with a strong fragrance. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

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Hybrid Tea. Long pointed elegant buds open to beautiful salmon blooms with a strong fragrance. Light green shiny foliage compliments this rose well. Can be used for beds and borders. Very good in a vase. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Bred by Reimer Kordes (1922-1997 -Germany).

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Hybrid Tea. A very beautiful rose that has been aptly named after a beautiful New Zealander. Frilly double blooms in shades of apricot cream and peach. Delightful perfume. A donation to UNICEF with every rose sold to assist with the education of girls in Ghana. 2006

This rose was voted most Fragrant Rose of the Year in 2009 and Rose of the Year in 2010.

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Hybrid Tea. Hayward college has deep red old fashioned style blooms with extremely weather resistant petals that last on the bush or in a vase for weeks. The bush is medium high with a compact habit. It has dark matte foliage and any new growth is a dark red-purple. 2017 Rob Somerfield.

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Hybrid Tea. The bright sunshine yellow blooms of this strong healthy rose are a cheerful sight in the garden from summer through to autumn. The blooms are fragrant and further enhanced by the deep green glossy foliage.

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Hybrid Tea. Salmon-pink, cluster-flowered, in small clusters, high-centered bloom form, borne mostly solitary, blooms in flushes throughout the season. Large, semi-glossy, dark green foliage.Medium, bushy, spreading shurb. Strong, sweet fragrance. 1980

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Hybrid Tea. Large, beautifully textured, full blooms with a generous amount of petals in a pretty pink shade. Nice long stems perfect for picking, (very few thorns) lush green foliage and a powerful fragrance i.e. 'Heaven Scent' make this a very desirable rose.

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Hybrid Tea. Now this is something just a little bit special. Beautifully formed flowers that have a hint of pink in the bud but open to reveal blooms of silvery lilac-grey. This rose has a delicious fragrance and healthy disease resistant foliage. It repeats well throughout the season.

Hybrid Tea High Fashion has gorgeous red buds which open to reveal a pink centre. This bush produces a large number of flowers and is healthy with some fragrance. This is a multiple international and local award winning rose.

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Hybrid Tea - New Release 2024. Large old fashioned style blooms that come one to a stem. Soft creamy-peach hue. Excellent for picking, with a light fragrance. The robust plant has glossy foliage. Deciduous. Bred by Rob Somerfield.

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Hybrid Tea. Beautiful soft coral pink blooms with rich fragrance, perfect for picking and vase display. Flowers on a hardy smallish bushy plant with fresh mid-green foliage. Nicely fragrant. Bred by Bob Matthews.

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Hybrid Tea. A highly recommended, disease resistant rose with large, velvety deep red blooms on strong upright stems. The flowers are long lasting. Dark green leathery foliage and Moderately fragrant. Lovely in a vase. Multi Award Winner

This rose is named after the award winning Swedish Actress of the same name. Ingrid Bergman is probably best remembered for her role in the film classic 'Casablanca'. A beautiful rose for a beautiful woman.

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Hybrid Tea. This popular old favourite is always in flower with beautiful, double, dark red flowers. Very elegant and desirable. Scented flowers. This compact bush is happy in a container or garden beds. Would make a stunning border rose planted en masse. 1949.

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Hybrid Tea. Very large ruffled flowers in tones of fawn, copper and buff with a nice fragrance appear from summer to autumn. Quite a sight in full flower. A good rose that is quite disease resistant and hardy.

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Hybrid Tea. A beautiful rose with lovely deep lilac blooms that open from tight buds. The blooms are fully double deliciously fragrant. Nice strong upright growth habit and lots of flowers produced throughout the season. Named in NZ to honor one of our greatest writers.

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Hybrid Tea. Both the name and the rose flower are a wonderful greeting. With the translation of be healthy or have life this rose must have good disease resistance. The soft, salmon pink, coral blooms. These long lasting flowers are great for cutting and have a light fragrance.
Suitable for warmer areas including Auckland/Northland

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Hybrid Tea. A unique Rose for the unique New Zealand gardener. Pretty ruffled blooms in shades of terra-cotta red. Sweetly scented so nice to pick. Kiwi rose repeats well from spring to autumn, and a good strong upright growth habit. PVR

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Hybrid Tea. A classic shaped Tea bud opening to large full blooms of plum-red and buff with soft yellow reverse. Mild fragrance. Similar to 'Peace' in lots of ways. Blooms in flushes through summer and autumn. Nice strong upright bush. SF. RP. 1965

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aka AKA Full Sail

Hybrid Tea. A rose for every Kiwi garden. Elegant classic shaped, large, creamy white flowers with a simply stunning fragrance. Strong, disease resistant plant with healthy glossy foliage. 1998. This rose is a natural 'sport' of Rose Aotearoa.

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Hybrid Tea. An award winning and reliable rose bred in Germany in 1970. The blooms are reasonably large, well formed and toned a clear unfading yellow. With their soft fragrance and good behaviour the blooms are excellent for floral decoration. Light green glossy foliage. AKA Sunblest.

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Hybrid Tea. Put the power of love into your garden with this drop dead gorgeous rose. The dusky red buds open to showy dark blooms in tones of magenta red. The fragrance is powerful and alluring. Disease resistant glossy foliage. Should definitely be on the must have list.

Winner of 'Most Fragrant Rose' Award in 2006.

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Hybrid Tea. Unique burnt toffee buds transform into multi-petal terracotta blooms. Outstanding for picking especially during the bud stage. Repeat flowering with light fragrance. Super shiny, glossy foliage also catches your eye on this healthy growing plant.

Bred by Bob Matthews.

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Hybrid Tea. With stunning large honey-apricot blooms of perfect bud form, 'Legend' unfurls into a swirl of petals with a rich fragrance. Robust plant with even hardy compact growth. Repeat flowering and great picking for a bouquet or vase. PVR

Bred in NZ by Bob Matthews.

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Hybrid Tea. An award winning rose bred in NZ by Rob Somerfield. Sumptuous double blooms shaded vibrant red on long stems perfect for picking. Lightly scented. Tall upright growth habit, few thorns and disease resistant. A lovely rose that would make an ideal gift to express affection. 2009. PVR

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Hybrid Tea. Oh this is just gorgeous. The ivory white blooms open to reveal soft peach centres. Flowers appear with generous abundance and carry an intense sweet fragrance. There is no doubt that you will indeed 'love me do'. Healthy glossy green foliage is an added bonus. 2007.

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Hybrid Tea. A very fragrant, pretty and free flowering rose. The vibrant salmon pink blooms are fully double and carried on strong stems from summer to autumn. Gorgeous to pick and what a lovely gift for the lovely lady in your life - even if it is for your good self!

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Hybrid Tea. Large, perfectly formed blooms of bright crimson-scarlet are borne on strong stems. A special rose for special occasions. Nice light fragrance. One of the best for cutting or exhibition. We rate it highly and have planted this rose in our roadside garden. 1981.

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Hybrid Tea. Named after media personality and politician Maggie Barry. This aptly flamboyant rose has perfect blooms in tones of deep orange, coral and pink. A free flowering, upright and bushy plant with a delicate fragrance. 1993.

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Hybrid Tea. Strong damask fragrance, crimson red flowers on a healthy bushy plant. Good repeat flowering, nice picking rose. Winner Most Fragrant Rose Barcelona Rose Trials 2016, Winner Barcelona Garden Society Award for Perfume. Deciduous. PVR

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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

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aka Miss All-American Beauty rose

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.

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aka AKA Simply the Best

Hybrid Tea. This Rose is AKA 'Simply the Best' and that certainly describes it well. Dark green glossy foliage and the most beautiful warm copper-orange-bronze blooms that emit a powerful musky fragrance. Mr McGredy does it again. Excellent cut flower.

Winner of Rose of the Year in 2002. Marketed in Europe as Simply the Best

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Hybrid Tea. A lovely rose with tight firm buds that unfold to reveal large, shapely, double, pure white blooms. With a powerful fragrance and classical shape, this is a lovely picking rose. Good strong grower. Belfast Gold Medal 1994.

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Hybrid Tea. An award winning rose with exquisite clear pink blooms washed with soft lavender. The fragrance of the blooms is so strong that is said that just one stem will perfume a room. Strong disease resistant growth and few thorns add to the desirability. PVR. 2005.

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Hybrid Tea. A strong rose with large swirling flowers of pure creamy white tinged with pale pink on the petal edges. Nicely fragrant and free-flowering, nice picking rose. Sturdy healthy upright bush, shows good disease resistance. 1992

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Hybrid Tea. This early flowering rose has large, multi-petalled blooms that open from nice, big, fat pink buds. The flowers turn red and have just a hint of lemon at the base. Generous with bloom, sweetly scented and overall a tolerant and reliable rose. PVR 1981

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Hybrid Tea. A very striking rose with long slender buds that open to reveal bright orange petals with a yellow reverse. The contrast in colour fades as the bloom opens out. Nice dark glossy foliage which is generally healthy. The long stems and soft fragrance make this rose perfect to pick. 1985.

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Hybrid Tea. A beautiful rose for your beautiful Mum. Bright rose pink blooms that are large and fully quartered. Wonderful strong fragrance and dark green glossy foliage that shows good disease resistance. Plenty of blooms throughout the season. AKA Ghita Renaissance.

Part of the 'Renaissance' collection which have been bred for excellent all round performance. These roses show good disease resistance and have plenty of flower power.

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Hybrid Tea. There's nothing you can do 'cause I'm stuck like glue to 'My Girl'. That's because it's a lovely rose with unfading deep rose pink blooms with a lovely fragrance. Good compact growth habit and healthy disease resistant foliage. Gold Medal Winner

This Rose also won NZ Rose of the Year in 2012.

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Hybrid Tea. Wouldn't this rose make a special gift or memorial for that special someone in your life and not just because of the name. The exquisite blooms are white blushed pink, very fragrant and oh so shapely. Good vigorous growth habit. A lovely rose. 2002.

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aka aka Serenity

Hybrid Tea. An outstanding classic shaped rose chosen to honour the 125th Jubilee of Nelson College for Girls. The blooms are a creamy apricot tinged with pink and set beautifully against dense, glossy, green disease resistant foliage. A tall vigorous grower. PVR

Nelson Girls was bred by Chris Warner of England and named in 2006 by importer Tasman Bay Roses.

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Hybrid Tea. Orange, golden-yellow blending. Slight pink to edges. Mild, sweet fragrance. Small to medium, double (17-25 petals), flat bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Glossy disease free bronze-tinged foliage. A strong growing upright plant. H.75cm SF. RP. 1982

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Hybrid Tea. Night Light produces a large number of lemon yellow blooms with outer petals ageing to cream. A compact bush of medium height with dark glossy foliage. Winner of the Certificate of Merit Palmerston North International Trial Ground 2017. Bred by Rob Somerfield, released 2019.

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Hybrid Tea. Gorgeous two toned rose. Petals have a cream base edged in rich raspberry red giving a stunning contrast of colour. Blooms are held high on strong stems either singly or in small clusters. Lovely in a floral arrangement. Nice upright bush, with glossy green leaf.

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Hybrid Tea Glistening pure white blooms, elegantly displayed in clusters of multi-petal cupped form. The citrus scented flowers are perfect for picking, borne throughout the season on a robust growing plant with glossy foliage. Named in celebration of the New Zealand Opera School, Whanganui. Bred in NZ by Bob Matthews

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Hybrid Tea. Shapely, warm, yellow blooms with a subtle fragrance that never seems to be without a flower through the season. Good for picking, mid green foliage with good disease resistance and good healthy bush. Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the University of Otago. Released 2019

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Hybrid Tea. Named after the Waikato Rosarian Paddy Stephens. This beautiful rose has coral-orange, salmon flowers which are lightly scented and of a perfect form, repeats well throughout the season. Lush green foliage and a healthy vigorous growth habit. 1991.

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Hybrid Tea. Sweetly fragrant double, dark, glowing red blooms that are made up of approximately 20 ruffled petals. A dense bushy plant with mid green foliage. Repeats well. 1982.

This rose has high susceptibility to downey mildew and we no longer stock it.

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Hybrid Tea. This rose won several international awards and is known as one of the very best fragrant red roses. Leathery dark green foliage and superb, exhibition quality, deep, rich, velvety, crimson blooms. Cut blooms early morning for long lasting vase displays. Repeats well, summer to autumn. 1963

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Hybrid Tea. Well-formed flowers of almost pure white with a soft cream base. Upright growth. An ideal flower for cutting. Winner of many awards, 'Pascali' is firmly established as the world's favourite white, large flowered rose. Soft scent. Flowers continuously throughout the summer. 1963.

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Hybrid Tea. Named for the well known French Artist and no doubt inspired by his work. The flowers have tones of warm pink and red with brush strokes of bright white. Most unusual and striking. Healthy dark green foliage. Repeats well. 1992.

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Hybrid Tea. Well it had to be red didn't it? This flamboyant, red, red rose with non fading blooms is a worthy representative of the Italian tenor. Long stems perfect for picking. Repeats well throughout the season on a nice upright bush.

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aka Peace or Mme A Meilland

Hybrid Tea. Possibly the world's favourite, best known and best loved rose. A delicate soft yellow edged with pink. Lightly fragrant blooms on a very sturdy vigorous bush. Wonderful as a cut flower. Repeats well and shows good disease resistance. Multi award winner. 1945.

This truly superb rose was bred by Frenchman Francis Meilland and named by Field Marshal Alan Brooke to celebrate the liberation of France at the end of WW11. It is a fascinating story - worthy of further reading and certainly 'Peace' is very worthy of planting.

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Hybrid Tea. A beautiful rose with a classic Hybrid Tea shape in bud and flower. The flowers are a soft apricot in the centre and edged with a silvery pink. Sturdy, disease resistant growth habit and repeats well. A powerful perfume adds the finishing touch. 1997.

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Hybrid Tea. An award winning rose which is not only very fragrant but very free flowering as well. The blooms are a pretty rose pink and are excellent for picking. Attractive dark green foliage. With 'Peace' as one of the pollen parents you know that this will be a good rose to grow. 1973.

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Hybrid Tea. Named in honor of Timaru's famous horse - yes born here not in Australia - this rose is sure to win you over. Gorgeous velvet red blooms that repeat well and are lovely to pick.

This rose has high susceptibility to downey mildew and we no longer stock it.

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Hybrid Tea.Generously sized nostalgic shaped flowers of vanilla cream edged with pink. The delicately fragrant blooms are produced on long stems making this award winner perfect for picking. Robust plant with strong, upright growth habit. Repeat Flowering. Bred by renowned Kordes Roses.

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aka Pantere rose

Hybrid Tea. A beautiful rose in two tones of pink. A reliably healthy and robust rose with dark shiny foliage, this rose has remained a firm favorite. Blooms have a moderate, fruity sweet fragrance. Continuous flowering from late spring to autumn. Meilland 1984

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Hybrid Tea. Has large cupped shaped blooms of soft pink, sweetly scented on long, strong stems ideal for picking. A super healthy plant with glossy foliage. Bred by Bob Matthews and named in celebration of the Matthews Nurseries 70th anniversary 2017. Award Winner. PVR

A winner of a Certificate of Merit at the New Zealand Rose Society trials in Palmerston North in 2015.

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Hybrid Tea. A commemorative Rose that naturally is found to be growing in the gardens at the Vatican. The blooms are large, full and glistening white with a very strong fresh citrus fragrance. Vigorous and healthy with glossy green foliage. Blooms well throughout the season. 2006.

Jackson and Perkins from the USA introduced this rose and are donating 10 percent of all sales to charities chosen by the Vatican. This rose was planted in the Whitehouse Gardens by Melania Trump.

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Hybrid Tea. A bushy vigorous rose with glossy green foliage and the most beautiful, rich crimson blooms with a very attractive sheen to the petals. The fragrant flowers appear continuously from summer to autumn. An excellent rose for cutting and exhibition. 1974.

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Hybrid Tea. Deep golden yellow hybrid tea on long stems making it ideal for picking. It will often have a slight orange highlight on the outside of the petal. It is one of the first roses to bloom in the spring. Flowers are set off by very deep green, glossy foliage.

Pride of Palmy was named to celebrate the 50th year of the Palmerston North International Rose Trial Grounds, the oldest rose trial in the southern hemisphere.

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Hybrid Tea. Lovely well form flowers of rich rose-pink. Very fragrant. Healthy compact bush with a vigorous growing habit. Prima Ballerina will thrive in most well drained soils, easy to grow and hardy. Deciduous.

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Hybrid Tea. The lovely dark shiny foliage beautifully enhances the crispness of the baby pink to pure white double flowers. Long flowering. No hips and very fragrant. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Can be used for cut flower or exhibition.

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Hybrid Tea. A popular and beautiful rose with large shapely blooms in warm tones of orange and copper. Puts on a lovely display with little effort. Nice soft fragrance, repeats well from summer to autumn. Bred in Scotland. 1984.

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Hybrid Tea. Glowing hot orange tipped blooms with yellow centres makes this rose stand out from the crowd! Multi international award winner bred in France by Pierre Orard. Repeat flowering with a light fragrance. Robust growing plant.

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Eye catching, true yellow blooms of classic form and fragrance. This handsome sport of popular ‘Amber Flush’ was discovered by Richard Harris ex Matthews Nursery Manager and named in his honour. Upright, healthy growing plant. Wonderful to pick. Bred by Matthews nursery, NZ.

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Hybrid Tea. This rose is beautiful in shape, unusual in colour and highly fragrant. The large double blooms are shaded a rich velvety purple-mauve. Dark green foliage and a vigorous growth habit with a generous amount of blooms throughout the season. Nice. 1989.

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Hybrid tea. A lovely rose with large, full, colourful flowers that are a blend of orange, yellow and pink. Free flowering with a nice strong perfume. Excellent cut blooms. Royal Dane is a lovely bushy plant with upright growth and glossy dark green foliage. 1971. Deciduous

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Hybrid Tea. A truly lovely rose with shapely, rich ruby-red, double blooms that are loosely arranged when fully open. Growth bushy and tidy with foliage that shows good disease resistance. Repeats well, nice soft fragrance and of course a perfect gift for those who have made it to year 40! 1979.

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Hybrid Tea. A popular old hybrid tea with large flowers that have silky petals and a rich fragrance. The petals are a distinctive blend of orange, pink, salmon and soft yellow and contrast beautifully with the glossy green foliage. Hardy, vigorous and reliable, repeats well. 1924.

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Hybrid Tea. Deliciously fragrant, large silvery white flowers unfurl in a swirl of petals with subtle notched edges. The blooms are borne on long stems and when picked can perfume an entire room! Nice upright bush with dark green foliage.

A sport of the ever popular Memorial Day.

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Hybrid Tea. This multi-award winning rose is considered by many to be 'one of the best'. Dark glossy green disease resistant foliage and exquisite blooms that are a blend of salmon pink, peach and cream. Beautifully fragrant and lovely to pick. Vigorous and free flowering.

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Hybrid Tea. Silver Lining is upright, bushy with thorny stems, clusters of strongly fragrant, very large, double rose pink flowers with darker pink outer petals. Silver Lining is a lovely cut rose, and the perfume will delight. Bred by Alexander Dickson (United Kingdom, 1958).

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Hybrid Tea. A beautiful and unique rose with large, sweetly fragrant buff lilac blooms, ideal for cutting. Classic hybrid tea shape with a high centre. Foliage is healthy dark green. Bred by John Ford and new to us in 2025.

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Hybrid Tea. It would be a big mistake to call a rose 'Simply Stunning' unless you were sure that it would live up to the name. Well this fragrant long stemmed rose with large, velvety red, fully quartered blooms that repeat regularly is simply that - stunning. PVR.

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Hybrid Tea. It has gorgeous 'old style' large fuchsia pink blooms with a lighter reverse. The bush is a medium height with a tidy compact growth habit and shows good disease resistance. This rose is very showy in full bloom. Ideal rose for picking.

Merit award in Palmerston North trial grounds, New Zealand 2020

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Hybrid Tea. Flowers of warm copper orange with a soft smokey edge on the opening blooms. Bushy compact growth. Bronze to dark green glossy foliage. Nice soft fragrance. Excellent choice for floral work. Would look fabulous next to brick or in a terracotta pot. 1998.

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Hybrid Tea. Unique blend of smoky terracotta and deep plum blooms, glossy foliage. This would make an ideal birthday gift for your gardening friend or family member. This rose has been available overseas but bred in New Zealand by John Ford. New to us in 2025.

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Hybrid Tea. A popular rose around the world and an International Award Winner too. Highly fragrant, large well shaped blooms in a warm apricot orange shade appear throughout the summer. Luxuriant green foliage and overall a really nice rose. 1995.

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Hybrid Tea. A gorgeous and unusual rose that has shapely blooms of pale smokey beige overlaid with smokey lavender pink at the petal edges. Very popular. Free flowering with a nice spicy perfume. This roses colour is hard to describe and best seen. It is, however, one of my favourites. 1990.

This unusual rose combines well with other plants in the garden.

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Hybrid Tea. The official rose of the NZ Red Cross bred by Sam McGredy. Medium sized blooms of brilliant, velvety red appear regularly on wide, long stemmed clusters. An extremely healthy bush with disease resistant glossy foliage. Multi award winning. 1998.

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Hybrid Tea. The blooms of this delightful rose are a blend of yellow and cream with a pink flush and sweetly scented too. An upright grower to a medium height and with glossy green leaves, ‘St Margaret’s Gold’ is a worthy addition to any garden. Winner of the Best Hybrid Tea award at the New Zealand Rose of the Year trials in Hamilton 2017. PVR

‘St Margaret’s Gold’ is a sport of the popular ‘Hayley Westenra’ .

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Hybrid Tea. The pointed buds open to reveal creamy white, fragrant blooms with golden stamens that are displayed to perfection against the deep green glossy foliage. Named for the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, consecrated in 1852. A lovely rose. 2003.

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Hybrid Tea. This rose will entice you with the unique lilac-mauve colour of the well shaped blooms. It will also delight with its strong fragrance and lush, leathery, dark green foliage. Lovely to pick for a bouquet, plenty of blooms throughout the season.

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Hybrid Tea. An award winning rose that celebrates another winner 'Sunline' the champion NZ mare. Large, golden yellow shapely blooms outlined with a delicate pink - an unusual but effective combination with just the lightest scent. Good disease resistance. A Rob Somerfield rose. PVR 2010.

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Hybrid Tea. This outstanding rose has perfectly formed spiral buds that open to reveal full blooms of vermilion orange. A beautiful fragrance adds to the delight. Long flowering period and a generous with blooms. This multi award winner is worthy of the title 'Super Star'. 1960.

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aka Christchurch

Hybrid Tea. Long stemmed spiral buds open to reveal large, exquisite blooms of vibrant glowing orange set against dark green foliage. The blooms are fragrant and unaffected by weather so always put on a great show. Vigorous growth habit and good disease resistance. 2009.

Bred by Gareth Fryer

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Hybrid Tea. A delightful rose with lovely fully double blooms of a clear rose pink that appear from summer through to autumn. Healthy disease resistant foliage and a gentle fragrance. AKA 'Congratulations'.

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Hybrid Tea. Tabasco has medium to large orange salmon blooms found both singularly and in substantial clusters. In full flower it is a magnificent sight. The bush is a medium height and has a nice upright growth habit with good disease tolerance.

Certificate of Merit, Palmerston North Trial ground, Rob Somerfield 2017