Website/Catalog  (24 Feb 2021)  Includes photo(s).
 

Green with Envy is the culmination of 29 years of breeding to market a green rose. The unusual trait with this variety is the length of time the flower lasts, both on the bush and as a cut flower. You will also find the colour intensifies with age as opposed to fading like most roses do. It looks stunning.  The bush shows medium vigour and quite good health. The flowers are gracefully arranged in large clusters with long stems for picking awards.  Public choice award in Palmerston North trial grounds, NZ (2013)  Classification: Floribunda  Flower Colour: Lime Green  Flower Size: 700mm  Petal Count: 20  Hight: 1-1.1m  Habit: Medium height slightly spreading often with taller Autumn growth  Fragrance: 1  Disease Resistance: Good  Year of Release: 2020  Introducer: Glenavon Roses Ltd. 

Book  (2018)  Page(s) 67.  
 
Margaret Hayward,  The Somerfields.  A Talent For Naming Beautiful Roses.
.....Now Rob has a truer green rose and it, too, is vigorous.  He says it has been a 25-year project, beginning accidentally when he crossed ‘Strawberry Ice’ with ‘Class Act’ and found that green tinge in a seedling.  Those first seedlings were quick to lose their leaves but after years of crossing with other roses it now has the vigour and colour he sought.  Around the  nursery, Rob refers to this new green rose as Pounamu after the New Zealand jade or greenstone so prized by Maori, but he is searching for a name that everyone will be able to pronounce, so look out for it under a different name when it is released in 2020.  That this is a special rose was reinforced when it won the People’s Choice Award at the Regional Conference of the World Federation of Rose Societies in Palmerston North in 2013.

Book  (2014)  Page(s) 44.  Includes photo(s).
 
New Zealand International Rose Trial Ground. Trial 43. 2011-2013
No. 4830. 69.5 points. Sompounamu Fl. Somerfield. Agent: Glenavon. Cream/green

John Ford. New Zealand Trial Ground Review. Trial 43. 2011-2013
SOMpounamu .....

Magazine  (2014)  Page(s) 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
New Zealand Rose Society. Trial Ground Winners 2013
World Federation of Rose Societies Peoples Choice Award.[*] Sompounamu (Not yet named) Description: Lime buds open to lime green blooms which deepen in colour as the blooms age. Small to medium grower, matt green foliage. Breeder: Rob Somerfield, New Zealand. Entrant: Glenavon Roses Ltd, Tauranga. To be released in the future.

[* The New Zealand Rose Society has confirmed the award was as above - and not the Certificate of Merit as shown in some literature. ]