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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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aka Apricot Delight

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. Deciduous PVR.

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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. A very striking rose with beautiful buds that open to fully double cream blooms that are outlined with a fine deep pink edge. Nice healthy growth habit and soft fragrance. Repeats in flushes throughout the season. 2002. PVR.

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Hybrid Tea. A shrub rose with shapely blooms of very deep red on long, lovely stems. Gorgeous fragrance. The foliage is dark green and glossy and the bush flowers almost continuously throughout the season. A real goodie! 1989. PVR. Deciduous

This rose has high susceptibility to downey mildew. Alternatives are Astrid graffin von hardenbergh, Black Beauty, Black Knight.

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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. PVR. Deciduous

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Hybrid Tea. Another great Sam McGredy rose with large, full, classic shaped flowers of clear orange scarlet. The strong single blooms look wonderful in the garden or in floral arrangements and carry a gentle fragrance. Tidy compact bush. 1993. PVR. Deciduous

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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. Deciduous 1987. PVR.

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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.