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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 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.
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.
Perhaps the leading rose thinker in Australia after the Second World War was the registrar of new varieties, AS Thomas. His book Better Roses went through many editions. The 1969 edition, in its chapter "Australian and New Zealand Roses", lists 80 "highly prized cultivars." Twenty are roses by the great Alister Clark.
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. The 1967 edition of his Better Roses prints a list of eighty "highly prized cultivars" from Australia and New Zealand. Twenty of them ...
In the Centenary Rose Garden at Morwell, 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.
Westbroekpark is a public park in The Hague, and the large rose garden and trial grounds for testing new varieties was created in 1961. More than 20,000 rose plants are set out in large beds and the focus is on new varieties. [21] [34] Rosarium Oudwijk (Wilhelminapark) is a public park in Utrecht, and the large rose garden was created in 1913.
George Thomson is an Australian amateur rose breeder, known for creating disease-resistant roses tailored to the Australian climate. Thomson was born in Scotland and trained with Alex Cocker of Cockers Roses in Aberdeen , also completing an apprenticeship at Kew Gardens .