Easy Care Roses

Dame Judi Dench: The blooms of Dame Judi Dench are a particularly rich shade of apricot-orange, paling prettily towards the edges. The striking, red-tipped buds gradually open to reveal large informal rosettes, each with ruffled petals and a button eye. They are very resistant to...

Forget me Not is a very highly recommended rose for health, vigour, stunning foliage, exquisite fruity fragrance from a Hybrid Tea shaped bud which opens to a cupped mass of swirling petals in shades of mauve/warm pink.  Blooms last well in a vase and...

Thank You Rose produces masses of deep mauve blooms in clusters all over a very healthy, well rounded shrub continually throughout the season - a lovely rose to gift when you want to say a significant "Thank You" to somebody special! Thank You has...

THE CHILDREN’S ROSE – Hybrid Tea Rose of the most delicate China pink and the most robust growth. Raised by Meilland, France this highly fragrant rose has every single quality that one might expect from a rose which carries this lovely name! The Children’s...

RUGOSA ALBA is renowned as a very healthy, extremely free flowering rose of pure white, single blooms and it produces an abundant source of Vitamin C rich rose hips as well!  This rose will attract bees to your garden while it flowers over a...

Mother's Love was bred by Dee Bennett, USA, 1989.  This wonderful rose graces many gardens as a remembrance rose and because of its extremely hardy nature and reliable repeat flowering, I never hesitate to recommend this rose as a gift to the least green-thumbed gardener...

TWILIGHT ZONE is a magnificent modern shrub rose to delight those who love the darkest, smokey purple colour in roses.  Huge buds open to very double, old-fashioned style petal form which hold their colour exceedingly well in the hottest weather. Dark, glossy foliage indicates...

Boscobel... DAVID AUSTIN was released in Australia in 2017 and  had people stopping to check whether the flowers were real when we presented this magnificent rose at an expo that year ... what a rose and it just got better as it aged in the...

Guardian Angel produces a wonderful creamy-white mass of blooms on an extraordinarily healthy shrub rose and the flowers are enduring through all weather and vase well too! There is a light fragrance - this rose is ideal to gift in the event of a loved-one...

Claire Austin is a David Austin climbing rose - sooooo delightful and enchanting - and I thought it didn't have a perfume until I took a sniff at just the right moment - awesome fragrance!   Such a beautiful bloom of perfect white mass of petals...

Henri Matisse– Floribunda/Modern shrub rose which is now widely produced as a cut flower for florists as it is particularly favoured because it does so well as a cut flower specimen. The dark cerise/red petals are slashed with bars of white and no two blooms...

Alfred Sisley is a remarkably pretty Delbard Rose which produces masses of striped blooms in clusters - flowers are coloured salmon/pink/orange/red/gold - a confusion of colours which draw the eye and want you to go closer to see all the appealing shades - totally beautiful!...

Earth Angel is a magnificent addition to the KORDES PARFUMA COLLECTION with extremely healthy, dark green foliage on a rather short bush to 75-90cms tall and nicely rounded.  The beautifully shaped old-world style blooms remind me of a peony with a thick, swirling mass of...

Blackberry Nip - is a New Zealand bred, Hybrid Tea rose which produces perfectly shaped blooms on long stems - very healthy bush. Highly fragrant. Holds the dark purple colour through all stages. Very quick repeat blooming. Ideal cut flower.   Lusciously fragrant blooms Perfect form...

THE ALNWICK CASTLE ROSE by David Austin is a rose of immense beauty with it's mid-pink blooms with a hint of peach in the colour blend.   This rose makes an outstanding hedge of continual blooming if planted at 75-90cms spacing with glorious flowers which...

SCENTIMENTAL – Modern Floribunda Rose and no, this is not a spelling error! The rose name is so spelt because it has an amazing fragrance Raised by Tom Carruth, USA, 1999 produces masses of medium sized pointed buds mostly in clusters, and opening with...

Heritage– David Austin Rose – one of the earliest and original English Musk roses. Bred by David Austin, UK, introduced in 1984 this beautiful rose already graces many Australian gardens as an extremely useful rose hedge. Heritage produces masses and masses of soft blush-pink medium...

Celine Delbard is one of the very first Delbard Roses we stocked in the early 90's because of the unique dusty-pink petals which have a silver reverse.  It's a beautiful rose - very robust and free-flowering, so gorgeous in a vase! If not trimmed after...

Hot Chocolate is a memorable rose due to its unique colour - a deep dark orange when in bud and then chocolate brown as the bud opens.  A modern Floribunda rose with clusters of intense dark orange/chocolate brown flowers that will make you look twice.  Good strong bushy...

Apricot Nectar is a classical old FLORIBUNDA rose which produces clusters of perfectly formed apricot coloured Hybrid Tea shaped bloom and is an ideal bush for the back of a border because it flowers absolutely continually and if left to 'have her own way', this magnificent rose...

Iceberg – Floribunda rose of purest white, exceedingly healthy and free flowering! In our harsh Australian landscape, Iceberg offers a cooling effect when you see it planted in a row with a green lawn or hedge around it and flowers unashamedly in all weather and all conditions....

Thank You Rose produces masses of deep mauve blooms in clusters all over a very healthy, continually flowering throughout the season - a lovely rose to gift when you want to say a significant "Thank You" to somebody special! This rose graciously cover itself...

Carmagnole – A Delbard shrub rose of incredible beauty and healthy vigorous growth. Bred by Delbard & Chabert, 1990, this delightful rose begs you to pick the buds and place them in a vase where they will slowly proceed to open and display a delightful...

THE LADY GARDENER is a David Austin Rose - this extremely high-health shrub with dark, glossy foliage on a rounded bush to 1.2 metres tall will delight 'the lady gardener' in your life! Pale apricot blooms with slightly darker centre (especially in cool weather) exude...

SHIRLEY'S ROSE will unequivocally be 'one for the ladies' with huge, full-bodied, highly fragrant blooms with more than 40 petals of intense peachy-apricot colour deep in the bud.  The richly textured outer petals are bone-cream. A highly disease-resistant plant, SHIRLEY'S ROSE will produce a...

For Your Eyes Only - Voted Rose of the Year for 2015 in UK, this repeat flowering floribunda/modern shrub rose will flower continuously throughout the flowering season.  This beautiful, interesting rose is the result of over 30 years of selective breeding by Chris Warner, UK....

Eyes for You: This stunningly pretty shrub rose with amazing fragrance, was bred from the species rose, R. hulthemia persica which was brought from Iran to France in 1788.  Chris Warner, UK, bred this modern beauty which flowers continually throughout the season. Excitingly different and very...

Claude Monet is a very healthy Delbard shrub rose which produces large, perfectly formed blooms all over the shrub continually.  Each bloom has a distinctly different swirl of darker and pale slashes of pink and cream.  A lovely rounded bush which would make a wonderful...

Earth Angel is a magnificent addition to the KORDES PARFUMA COLLECTION with extremely healthy, dark green foliage.  The beautifully shaped old-world style blooms remind me of a peony with a thick, swirling mass of petals as the bloom slowly opens to present a fresh fruity...

Bright as a Button is another delightful Persica rose from breeder Chris Warner,UK, which has masses of bright pink with crimson eye, delicately fragrant blooms on a disease resistant plant. This beautiful new rose has received numerous awards for best novelty rose in Trial Grounds...

WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL is an older David Austin rose which is immensely healthy and ideal to grow, pure-white, very durable flowers with a tight cluster of petals.  Dark green foliage is a wonderful foil for the continual mass of fragrant flowers - very highly recommended...

Mother's Love was bred by Dee Bennett, USA, 1989.  This wonderful rose graces many gardens as a remembrance rose and because of its extremely hardy nature and reliable repeat flowering, I never hesitate to recommend this rose as a gift to the least green-thumbed gardener...

Apricot Nectar is a classical old FLORIBUNDA rose which produces clusters of perfectly formed apricot coloured Hybrid Tea shaped bloom and is an ideal bush for the back of a border because it flowers absolutely continually and if left to 'have her own way' Apricot Nectar is...

Angela Taylor – Bush RoseA truly romantic rose, Angela Taylor is a charming bush rose that brings elegance and colour to any garden. Its blooms are a soft blend of blush pink tones, opening into beautifully formed flowers with a classic rose shape. This...

City of Belfast – Floribunda rose with a plethora of awards around the world for its free-flowering, extremely healthy shrub which graces gardens throughout New Zealand where breeder, Sam McGredy lived.  Brightest red blooms in clusters adorn a beautifully healthy, well-foliaged bush suitable to...

So In Love – Bred by Rob Somerfield, NZ – Floribunda – Delightful blend of lavenderpink with tawny reverse on each petal … very abundant and extremely diseaseresistant plant for a border or tub. Could be used as a low hedge 75 x 75cms...

PER-FYOOM PERFUME is an international, multi-award-winning modern shrub rose which smothers the bush in delightfully pale, fairy-floss pink blooms of the most exquisite form - the pictures are exactly how it stands out on the most amazingly healthy, glossy-foliaged shrub. In 2016, we planted this...

Ali Baba is a climbing rose like no other!  The flowers are so, so abundant on lovely long stems which are suitable for the vase and it is such a strong, healthy growing climbing rose - we love it! There is no other climbing rose...

Gallipoli Centenary Rose - A very tough and dense growing, upright bush, this rose has all the health and disease resistance famous in a Kordes latest release. Large, elegant, deep velvet red unfading blooms are produced in clusters or singly, framed by mid green leaves,...

  Ebb Tide is a Modern shrub rose/floribunda and this exceedingly popular rose has the most exotic deep smoky purple flowers. Bred by Tom Carruth, USA, 2004 this wonderful rose created a massive impact for the intense colour which was rarely seen in modern roses....

Blue for You is a Modern Shrub rose which produces clusters of semi-double blooms on a healthy medium-sized bush. Fragrant clusters of open blooms of unique coloured, mauve-grey with silver reverse. Foliage is lush, glossy and always healthy. The magnificent open blooms display stamens and attract...

Soul Mate is such a wonderful modern shrub rose which produces a tidy rozette of muddled warm yellow petals on a very free-flowering, healthy shrub which branches to about 1 metre.   This is a beautiful gift rose as yellow is a symbol of friendship...

RUGOSA SCABROSA is a seriously easy rose to grow in any situation - once established it requires almost no care and will continue to flourish and produce masses of single magenta/cerise single blooms very freely throughout the season.  If left unpruned, it will also...

Forget me Not is a very highly recommended rose for health, vigour, stunning foliage, exquisite fruity fragrance from a Hybrid Tea shaped bud which opens to a cupped mass of swirling petals in shades of mauve/warm pink.  Blooms last well in a vase and...

Margaret Merril was bred by Harkness, UK, 1977 this glorious rose makes an outstanding addition to the rose garden producing the most perfectly formed, purest white blooms which, when opened, reveal a bed of dark crimson stamens which attract the bees! Margaret Merril has very distinct dark...

My Hero – Modern Shrub Rose of extraordinary health and vigour as a pleasant reminder of the hero in your life! My Hero produces an abundance of classic, shining rose pink blooms which clothe the shrub over a very long flowering season. The petals...

Forget me Not is a very highly recommended rose for health, vigour, stunning foliage, exquisite fruity fragrance from a Hybrid Tea shaped bud which opens to a cupped mass of swirling petals in shades of mauve/warm pink.  Blooms last well in a vase and...

The Karnival is a happy rose which was bred by Meilland, France in the mid-80's and would be found in public gardens in hedge-row plantings to which it is very suited. prolific blooming, strong, healthy foliage make The Karnival ideal also for patio pot...

SOEUR (SISTER) EMMANUELLE produces an abundance of lilac pink, highly fragrant blooms which are massed with petals and make a beautiful display in a vase.  The high-health bush is tall and upright, the foliage dark and healthy - very highly recommended rose! Delbard rose...

RUBY CELEBRATION is a beautiful floribunda rose with rather open blooms with very dark red waved petals which last and last on the bush!  This rose is healthy and very free flowering.  Ideal gift rose for 40th wedding anniversary! Open blooms with dark red...