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'Warrawee' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - Kurinda Rose Nursery
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Information from Eric Timewell in his June 21, 2015 comment under 'Lubra':
I guess but don't know he [Stan Nieuwesteeg] also has 'Warrawee' from his brother, but the 'Warrawee' at Morwell comes from Golden Vale,
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McFarland (Roses of the World in Colour p 280) states that "Warrawee" means "rest a while".
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Margaret, The Book of Sydney Suburbs, compiled by Frances Pollon, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990, ISBN 0-207-14495-8 says "warrawee" in the local aboriginal language means "rest a while", "stop here" or "stand." But I doubt that Mrs Fitzhardinge had that in mind. It would be like saying Mayfair means a fair in the month of May. It did but something has been added since.
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Along those lines, my family tradition says that "Kombacy" (the name of my great-grandparents' house, hence part of the study name of several roses found there) means "here we sit down" in one of the Aboriginal languages. It's not as mellifluous as many Aboriginal names.
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Thanks Margaret. That reference has now been added. It has enabled us to put back the date for 'Warrawee' further from before 1932 to before 1927
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Warrawee in Mrs Fitzhardinge's day was a suburb exclusive beyond the dreams of any estate agent, with no shops, offices, post office, public school, churches, or cross roads, just 1–4-acre blocks of well-watered volcanic soil. The Fitzhardinges lived there 1917–1937 in a beautiful garden they had made and had close friends and relations nearby. Calling her rose 'Warrawee' expressed a strong esprit de banlieue.
The photo below shows the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in Warrawee a decade before the Fitzhardinges moved there.
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