Lillian’s Garden Story on Relocating and Reinventing a Garden
Author: Lillian Barry Click here to download Relocating and Reinventing a Garden article.
David Ruston OAM Heritage Rose Conservation Grant
This grant honours the work of the late David Ruston in the collection, conservation and promotion of heritage roses. The rose garden he created in Renmark SA was previously recognised as the Australian National Rose Collection. The Grant: The grant […]
15th HRiA Conference
Glen Waverley VIC, 2023 The long awaited heritage rose conference took place at Glen Waverley and surrounding areas from 27th till 30th October 2023 with a very well organised post conference tour for the next two days. How good it […]
Orange Botanic Gardens – Heritage Rose Gardens working bees
Working bees are planned for the mornings of 18th March, 8th and 22nd April and 6th and 20th May between 9.30am and 12.30pm.
Vale Noelene Drage
It is with deep sadness that we inform members of the passing of long-term HRIA member Noelene Drage on 10th September 2023. Instrumental in forming the Perth Region in 1991, Noelene became its first Coordinator and went on to become […]
Singularly Beautiful Roses
A Publication Dedicated to Single, Nearly Single and Semi-Double Flowered Roses. Editor: Stephen Hoy, Georgia USA
Heritage Roses in Our Gardens
Author(s): Heritage Roses in Australia Incorporated Publisher: Heritage Roses in Australia Incorporated, 2022 ISBN: 9780645377903 Roses have a long history – much of it steeped in mystery – and beautiful roses from the past that have survived the vicissitudes of […]
Perth Region Website
Click here to visit the Perth Region website.
Mystery Roses of the Australian Tea-Noisette-China Collection
Author(s): Margaret Furness Publisher: Heritage Roses in Australia Incorporated, 2022 ISBN: 9780645377910 A rose by any other name would smell as sweet… Around 1,000 Tea roses were available in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With changing […]
Vale – Gillian Batchen
5th September 2021 Gillian joined Heritage Roes in Australia Inc. during the early days of Heritage Roses in Sydney, NSW. She was on the committee from the beginning and was one of the main instigators in the ‘Rose Rescue’ operation […]
Vale – Hillary Merrifield
Long-term HRIA member Hillary Merrifield passed away on the 9th of September 2021. Hillary was respected both in Australia and overseas as an expert on heritage roses, especially Tea roses , and the many friends she made through roses were […]
Past HRIA Journals
HRIA members can download past Journals by first logging in to the website, then going to the Members Section which can be found under the Membership menu tab. The Journal Archive and other member resources can be found there. Additionally, […]
Sic transit gloria mundi: David Ruston’s Roses
HRIA Journal 43: 3, spring 2021, pp 38-39. Margaret Furness, Barossa & Beyond. (Updated from the Rose Letter, August 2020, of the Historic Roses Group, USA, and printed with permission.) David Ruston OAM, rosarian par excellence and first president of […]
Some notes for newer members
Some interesting notes and descriptions of terms which newcomers to heritage roses will find helpful.
Identifying Roses
Cassandra Bernstein (California) provides some guidelines for identifying roses. Condensed from an article in the Autumn 2006 Journal.
Sporting and Reverting
Margaret Furness (Barossa & Beyond) describes the types of rose mutations.
Re-written from an article in the Summer 2013 Journal.
Rose Diseases and Pests
Tate Hancox (Adelaide) describes some roses diseases and pests. Summarised from an assignment done for his undergraduate degree.
WFRS Conservation & Heritage
Check out the Conservation and Heritage section of the World Federation of Rose Societies http://www.worldrose.org/conservation-and-heritage.html “By Any Other Name” (BAON) is the newsletter of the Conservation and Heritage section of the World Federation of Rose Societies. See the link below […]