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 Award: Silver medal; Best Rose of Trial Marion de Bomhe Memorial award; Best Hybrid Tea (Hamilton NZ award).
Name: Firestar
Type: Hybrid Tea
Habit: Open apricot pink flowers and robust pale green foliage
Breeder: Harkness & Co, UK
Exhibitor: Brundrett Roses, VIC
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 Award: Silver Medal & Most Fragrant Rose (Gifu, Japan award)
Name: Forget-Me-Not
Type: Hybrid Tea
Habit: Dense crimson red solitary blooms, grey green & maroon foliage
Breeder: William Radler for Meilland International, France
Exhibitor: Corporate Roses, SA
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 Award: Bronze Medal & Best Floribunda Rose (Rose Hills, USA award)
Name: My Hero
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Massive clusters of shell pink blooms which fade to white
Breeder: Weeks Roses, CA, USA
Exhibitor: Swane’s Nurseries, NSW
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 Award: Bronze Medal & Most Pest & Disease Tolerance Rose (Irwin, Adelaide award)
Name: Desert Island
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Pure white blooms with an open centre of yellow stamens
Breeder: Dickson Nurseries, Nth Ireland, UK
Exhibitor: Treloar Roses, VIC
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Undecided
Type: Ground Cover
Habit: 40cm tall bush with lots of pink, apricot and flushed yellow flowers
Breeder: W. Kordes Söhne, Sparrieshoop, Germany
Exhibitor: Treloar Roses, VIC
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Sport of Penthouse
Type: Hybrid Tea sport
Habit: Formal shaped ivory blooms with prominent yellow stamens
Breeder: LL & JD Howard, Koppio, SA
Exhibitor: Lyle & Jenny Howard, SA
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Undecided
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Extremely double white flowers with a pink blush as they age
Breeder: Harkness & Co. Ltd, Hitchin, UK
Exhibitor: Brundrett Roses, VIC
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: St John
Type: Hybrid Tea
Habit: Dark red solitary blooms on strong red stems and deep green leaves
Breeder: William Radler for Meilland International, France
Exhibitor: Corporate Roses, SA
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Undecided
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Open pure white blooms with yellow stemens tinged red
Breeder: Kalinka (syn. Pink Wonder) sport
Exhibitor: K. Trimper & S. Zwar, SA
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Firefighter
Type: Hybrid Tea
Habit: Blood red double flowers and dark green shiny foliage
Breeder: Orards, Feyzin, France
Exhibitor: Swane’s Nurseries, NSW
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Brindabella Blaze
Type: Hybrid Tea
Habit: Bright cardinal red flowers with glossy green foliage
Breeder: John Gray, Toowoomba, QLD
Exhibitor: Brindabella Country Gardens
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Good Samaritan
Type: Hybrid Tea
Habit: Bright cerise pink double flowers and mid green foliage
Breeder: Jackson & Perkins OR, USA
Exhibitor: Swane’s Nurseries, NSW
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Brindabella Bouquet
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Ruffled ivory pink flowers that open white with yellow stamens
Breeder: C. Warner, Shropshire, UK
Exhibitor: Brindabella Country Gardens, Toowoomba, QLD
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Undecided
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Mid pink flowers flushed yellowish apricot
Breeder: William Radler for Meilland International, France
Exhibitor: Corporate Roses, SA
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 Award: Bronze Medal
Name: Undecided
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Massed heads of single pink apple-blossom blooms, yellow stamens
Breeder: William Radler for Meilland International, France
Exhibitor: Corporate Roses, SA
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 Award: Certificate of Merit
Name: Not released in 2008
Type: Hybrid Tea
Habit: Large double golden blooms that fade dull apricot
Breeder: Rosen Tauntau, Uetersen, Germany
Exhibitor: Brundrett Roses, VIC
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 Award: Certificate of Merit
Name: Pink Emely
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Massed heads of open deep pink and contrasting white stamens
Breeder: W. Kordes Söhne, Sparrieshoop, Germany
Exhibitor: Treloar Roses, VIC
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 Award: Certificate of Merit
Name: Undecided
Type: Floribunda
Habit: Whimsical shell pink magnolia-like to open white blooms
Breeder: William Radler for Meilland International, France
Exhibitor: Corporate Roses, SA
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 Award: Certificate of Merit
Name: Undecided
Type: Floribunda sport
Habit: Large dense clusters of tight double pale pink to fading white flowers
Breeder: Knights Roses, SA
Exhibitor: Knights Roses, SA
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No Australian-bred rose was declared, as none reached the Certificate of Merit level; Australian sports not eligible.
Management Council would like to make a public correction. “Brindabella Blaze”, Bronze Medal Winner 2008, was bred by John Gray of Brindabella Country Gardens and not C. Warner of England as published. |
