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"Garden of St. Erth" rose References
Magazine (2024) Page(s) 50. Vol 46, No. 1. Includes photo(s). Leonie Kearney, Brisbane. Polyantha Roses from the Past. A Polyantha which came from the ‘Garden of St Erth’ in Victoria many years ago when Tommy Garnett was the owner and the creator of that beautiful garden. The late Ron Treloar, a very keen rose grower and HRIA member, visited the garden and was taken with this beautiful Polyantha he saw there. I do not know the story but he felt it would do well in our gardens in Queensland, so he brought home some cutting material and shared it with other keen rose growers including myself. It grows very easily, forming a low bush up to 70cm high with many shoots from the base, and bears clusters of small semi-double pale pink-edged roses in frequent flushes. It is quite prickly but it makes a lovely potted plant as well as a good garden performer. It caught the eye of a visiting gardener and she asked me to propagate 90 plants of “Garden of St Erth” to mass plant. She tells me it looks amazing. I have noticed it sets lots of seedlings, and therefore slightly different flowering varieties appear nearby. (Photos: Ed.)
Website/Catalog (13 Dec 2021) https://www.familytreecircles.com/bulla-blackwood-and-alister-clark-s-roses-vic-aust-and-cornwall-and-heronswood-61641.html
In a recent issue of The Blackwood Times, Blackwood historian,Margot Hitchcock, wrote an article about Matthew Rogers, the first or early owner of the land on which the Garden of St Erth was developed. Matthew, whose huge angel-topped monument is easily the most prominent in the Blackwood cemetery, was born in St Erth, Cornwall. The same issue (and article?),probably Oct-Nov 2014,discussed the Garnett family's tenure at the Garden of St Erth. The following website unfortunately does not indicate when the Diggers' Club was established.....
Magazine (2020) Page(s) 17. Vol 42, No. 4. Tiffany would like to acknowledge the generosity of other members who have given her unusual heritage roses to add to her collection. “Their roses would probably be some of my more cherished specimens. Such as…..and “Garden of St Erth” from Bonita Cattell.”
Magazine (2018) Page(s) 56. Vol 40, No. 2. Bonita Cattell This is a list of the cutting grown roses we had for sale: Mrs Harold Brocklebank, Peace 1902, Madame Berkley, Duchess de Brabant, Pink Maman Cochet, Snow Spray, Prosperity, Bloomfield Abundance, "Garden of St Erth". The proceeds were shared with the Horticulture Stewards to enable them to purchase more trophies for Heritage
Book (2011) Castlemaine 1991 Conference. Tommy Garnett, the great old gardener and writer who developed the garden from St Erth at Blackwood in Victoria, dealt with the life of Alister Clark and his garden at Glenara.
Magazine (2010) Page(s) 20. Vol 32, No. 4. Sue Zwar After the conference we spent a couple of days with good friends, Ron and Hazel Treloar, in their new home at Cooroy. Ones that took my eye…..“Garden of St. Erth” a ‘found’ rose with lovely dainty trusses of semi-double cupped pink and white blooms.
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