TIMARU BOTANIC GARDENS
The Heritage Rose Garden are living antiques. This collection includes rose species, hybrids and variety commonly cultivated in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1979, the World Federation of Rose Societies adopted a simple classification for roses. Heritage roses are defined as those established before 1867.
Heritage roses display interesting form, strong perfumes and a mass of colourful hips in the autumn. They have much higher pest and disease tolerance than modern roses. Staff prune these old garden plants to maintain their shape and support flowering stems. Slow release fertilizer is applied in September and January.
1930 Rose gardens, probably Botanic Gardens, Timaru. Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera. Ref: 1/4-055817-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/30632652