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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.

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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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aka AKA Simply the Best

Hybrid Tea Std. 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.

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Climber - Hybrid Tea. Peter Beales describes this as an "outstandingly beautiful climber." I agree! If you like single roses you will love Meg's large, scented blooms of buff yellow flushed with apricot and peach. Prominent russet-red stamens complete the picture. Glossy green healthy foliage. 1954.

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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 Std. 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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aka AKA Bonita or The St Edmunds Rose

Shrub. Memories of You is an upright, shrub rose with green leaves. It has fragrant, large blooms of orange-apricot with pink overtones that bloom throughout summer. This rose is known in different countries as Bonita or The St. Edmunds Rose and has won awards throughout Europe and Japan.

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Floribunda. A striking rose with clusters of semi-double flowers with blended stripes in shades of vibrant orange and cream. Nice fragrance and repeats well. The reddish new foliage matures to a healthy dark green. A fascinating and unusual rose. 1995.

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Floribunda. A unique and striking rose with a powerful spicy fragrance. The generous trusses of small, semi-double flowers are shaded a sensuous rich purple highlighted with golden stamens. While this rose is quite vigorous it has a compact habit and is virtually thornless.

The NZRS recommend that this rose is best grown in light shade to protect the beautiful blooms from burning in the sun.