First Rose In Old Parliament House Rose Gardens

Well blow me down we now have our first rose in the OPH Rose Gardens Canberra. The last rose was pruned off mid August and now one month later we have our first a beautiful white rose. I will take my camera tomorrow. Many other pics to follow.
Dennis:
 

Oh Dennis, You are so lucky to be working there, can't wait to see your photos.

Ah, the first rose is always so welcome and exciting!  

Looking forward to seeing your photos Dennis and looking forward to seeing my first roses of the season in my garden too. I'm always impatient at this time of the year. Buds are there but waiting....

New Government new rose I guess.

Normaly my first rose of the year is Kardinal but this year it was the new Rose Society of NSW centennial celebration rose 100 Not Out.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Climbing rose Jessie Clark
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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Gold Bunny Dennis

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] 80 plus year old roses in front of Old Parliament House Canberra, showing Gold Bunny with first flower on 19 9 13 Dennis

Great shots Dennis, what style of roses are on the standards in this shot please

Without checking I think all the Standards are hybrid tea's. But I will check and get back to you. There are buds on lots of roses so within two to three weeks we will have a huge range of roses flowering.
Dennis

Lovely to see your first Roses for the season Dennis, you must feel so proud. Hope to get down there some time to look around your garden.
Have a great Week End...

Dimity, Thanks, it is exciting at the moment but we are very busy mulching at the moment. It is a painfully slow process doing thousands of roses and we have had lots of rain. I checked yesterday and saw the first aphids so within a fortnight I will have to spray through and then do the roses at least each six weeks to prevent attack. Black spot and powdery mildew will be a problem as well due the wet spring. The roses are so clean at the moment it keeping them so will take the time.
Cheers
Dennis

Dimity, Forgot to add you are most welcome in Canberra or to call into Braidwood at any time. Would love to show you over our beautiful gardens.
Cheers
Dennis

Thanks Dennis will let you know when coming down that way. You certainly have a job ahead of you, I don't envoy you. And oh, how I hate Aphids, but if you can get a good spraying program going I am sure you can get on top of them & the Black Spot. Here you are getting to much rain & we need more, funny world, this world of gardening.
Happy Gardening.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Volunteers working in Rex Hazlewood Garden OPH Canbeera. Foreground Alister clark roses, along path hybrid tea's left of path Rugosa's, Center Hybrid Damask's.
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This garden must be very pretty when in flower, and the perfume lovely. I wish we had smellerinternet.
I would love to be a Volunteer in such a lovely garden, I must enquire here if there is somewhere I can be of help in a garden.

Dimity, I spent a couple of hours in this garden today. It is starting to look amazing. A lot of the roses are in full bud so lots of flowers very soon. I tied most of the climbers back to the trellises today and did a light trim on the straggling branches. We have had some storm damage recently. Cheers.
Dennis

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Photo of Floriade 2013 Canberra's floral Festival in Commonwealth Park which is directly across Lake Burley Griffin fro Old Parliament House where I work. Our depot is in Commonwealth Park and it is difficult during Floiade to get in and out of the depot. Hope you all enjoy the photo.
Dennis

We/ I do Dennis as it is not something I have seen before or even thought of where rose might be found, thank you.

lovely . yet to see the rose garden in canberra

Dan if you could go, which "style/variety of rose" would make you go to Canberra ?

roseman wrote:Dan if you could go, which "style/variety of rose" would make you go to Canberra ?

lol David

no style or variety would keep me away , I always love looking at roses regardless what types they are , of course if I had to choose would have to be heritage roses

In the Macarthur Garden we have some of the first roses brought with the Macarthur Family to Australia when they came and set up near Camden NSW. I sprayed them Monday with worm juice. Dennis

Dennis, I have just looked at the list of roses in the Macarthur Garden, there are some exceptional roses amongst them,