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This is a list of the known roses of the Australian breeder Alister Clark (1864–1949). It is an attachment to the main page on Alister Clark as a rose breeder. The list of surviving roses has been compiled from Peter Cox's Australian Roses; [1] the online list established by Help Me Find Roses for Clark, Alister; and from the Govanstones' The Women Behind the Roses. [2]
The South Australian Policy adopted Sturt's Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa) as the Floral Emblem of South Australia on 23 November 1961. [ 6 ] The Tasmanian Government proclaimed Eucalyptus globulus as their State floral emblem on 5 December 1962, [ 7 ] however it is rarely seen as an official or popular emblem. [ 8 ]
The Alister Clark Memorial Rose Garden is the most complete collection in Australia of the surviving roses of "the great Australian rose breeder, Alister Clark" (1864–1949). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is situated near "Glenara", his old house and garden in Bulla, Victoria , 10 km NW of Melbourne Airport.
In any case, his roses of all periods have an irregularity which rose fanciers find endearing. [13] Twenty years after his death in 1949 Alister Clark remained the most important Australian rose breeder. A.S. Thomas was the Australian registrar of roses and president of the National Rose Society of Victoria.
Olive Fitzhardinge (1881–1956) was an Australian rose breeder, the first to patent her work. Her four surviving roses are held in Australian collections. [ 1 ] Her roses were well received in the 1930s but after the Second World War favoured styles of roses changed significantly.
The National Rose Gardens are heritage-listed rose gardens located in Parkes, a suburb of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory of Australia.Conceived in 1926 and opened in 1933, they were Australia's first national gardening project and were planned as a physical expression of the principle of cooperation between the Commonwealth and the States.
Boronia serrulata, commonly known as native rose or rose boronia, [2] is a species of plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae, and is endemic to New South Wales, mainly in the Sydney basin. It is an erect, woody shrub with glabrous branchlets, simple , egg-shaped leaves with fine teeth on the edges, and bright pink, four- petalled flowers on the ...
Rosa multiflora is grown as an ornamental plant and also used as a rootstock for grafted ornamental rose cultivars. In eastern North America , Rosa multiflora is considered an invasive species . It was originally introduced from Asia as a soil conservation measure, as a natural hedge to border grazing land, and to attract wildlife.