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Standard, Hybrid Tea. Glowing hot orange tipped blooms with yellow centres makes this rose stand out from the crowd! Multi international award winner bred in France by Pierre Orard. Repeat flowering with a light fragrance. Robust growing plant.

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Shrub Std. This is a really pretty rose that has continuous clusters of semi-double soft purple blooms that fade out to a smoky, slate blue. The nice fragrance adds an extra enhancement. The foliage is a soft matt green. PVR.

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Austin. Soft orange-red buds open to medium-sized, cupped rosettes of perfect apricot colouring. They are extremely robust and have a lovely fruity Tea scent. Very healthy; it matures into an attractive, rounded, bushy shrub with few thorns.

Named to mark the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth. David Austin, 2016.

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Hybrid Tea Std. This rose is beautiful in shape, unusual in colour and highly fragrant. The large double blooms are shaded a rich velvety purple-mauve. Dark green foliage and a vigorous growth habit with a generous amount of blooms throughout the season. Nice. 1989. PVR.

This rose received top reviews from members of the NZRS when it was assessed during 2010.

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Hybrid Tea Std. Immaculate, perfectly poised blooms of pristine white, with the faintest hint of apricot in the bud. Beautifully formed flowers open from the spiral shaped buds. Softly scented, nice glossy green foliage and plenty of blooms throughout the season. Really lovely. PVR. 1997.

This rose has high susceptibility to downey mildew and we no longer stock it.

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Shrub Std. Everybody just loves our Sally. A stunning rose with regular and generous trusses of single flowers in shades of softest pale pink to white. Sturdy, vigorous, disease resistant growth habit, will even tolerate a little shade. Perfect for mass grouping. A really good rose. 1976.

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Std. Bred in NZ, this sweet little patio rose has soft creamy white blooms of exquisite form. The centre of the rose has a soft glow of apricot. As you would expect from the name the blooms are beautifully fragrant. Excellent as a cut flower and foliage shows good disease resistance. PVR 1999

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Floribunda Std. A fantastic healthy rose with bright, clear yellow blooms which are produced in abundance. Wonderful fragrance and excellent disease resistant foliage. Awarded a Gold Star of the South Pacific for its unrivaled flower power. PVR.

This rose is so highly rated by the NZRS members it was voted one of the top 5 healthiest roses in 2008.

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Floribunda Std. This NZ bred, multi award winning rose flowers continuously throughout the summer. The large clusters of blooms are beautiful, very double and shaded a soft rose pink. Nice light perfume. An outstanding and deservedly popular rose. 1984. PVR.

Sam McGredy named this rose after his friend the late Rex Hotchin who was not at all like a pretty pink floribunda but a good friend worthy of naming a beautiful rose after.

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Hybrid Tea. Deliciously fragrant, large silvery white flowers unfurl in a swirl of petals with subtle notched edges. The blooms are borne on long stems and when picked can perfume an entire room! Exclusive to Matthews Roses

A sport of the ever popular Memorial Day.