Spring Show
Selwyn Library Hall
10 Stephens Road, Parnell
Free Entry
ARS Open Gardens for members
NZ Rose Society National Show
Hamilton Gardens
Free Entry
Spring Show
Selwyn Library Hall
10 Stephens Road, Parnell
Free Entry
Parnell Festival of Roses
Sunday 29th June 2025
** Rose Pruning Demonstration **
Time: 1.00pm- 3.30 pm
Venue: Parnell Rose Gardens
St Georges Bay Road, Parnell
Street Parking Available
Meet at the Archway
Please bring secateurs, gloves, and a bucket for prunings which are to be put in the skip on site.
Loppers and pruning saws also welcome if you have them.
Expert advice on pruning of hybrid tea roses and climbing roses.
(Please note there will be no alternate date if it rains).
Kings Silverdale – Sunday, 27 July 2025 at 11:00am
Kings Takapuna – Sunday, 27 July 2025 at 2:00pm
Kings St Lukes – Sunday, 20 July 2025 at 2:00pm
Kings Henderson – Sunday, 20 July 2025 at 11:30am
Kings Stonefields – Sunday, 13 July 2025 at 2:00pm
Kings Orakei – Sunday, 6 July 2025 at 2:00pm
Kings Botany – Sunday, 6 July 2025 at 11:30am
Our 2026 Rose Calendars are now being planned!
Support the Auckland Rose Society.
A great Christmas present for friends and family
Email aucklandrosesociety@gmail.com to place your order.
The Auckland Rose Society Annual Show and Competition will be held this year at the
BISHOP SELWYN LIBRARY
(Opposite Holy Trinity Cathedral Parnell)
10 St Stephens Avenue, Parnell
Auckland
15th & 16th of November 2025
Pruning: As a general rule of thumb for those wishing to exhibit it is suggested that pruning is done 90 days prior to the show weekend.
The more people we have exhibiting the better our show will be!
With both Novice and Open Classes there is an opportunity for everyone to enter roses in the show and to try their hand at exhibiting.
You have grown them – why not show them!!!
Auckland Rose Society held a number of pruning demonstrations over June and July which were well attended. A big thank you to Parnell Rose Gardens and Kings Plant Barn for enabling us to share our knowledge of the care of roses. The Auckland Rose Society also wishes to extend a warm welcome to all our new members who have recently joined, and we hope to see you at our monthly meetings and special events over the coming year.
Citation:
The Auckland Rose Society has great pleasure in nominating Max Bullen for the Frank Penn Memorial Award.
Max joined the Auckland Rose Society in 1985 and has been a dedicated member of the Society since. He has also been a prominent member of the Auckland Committee over the last 25 years. Max was made a life member of the Auckland Rose Society in 2008 and has previously served as Vice President and maintains the role of Vice Patron.
As one of Auckland’s leading Consulting Rosarian’s, Max wrote the cultural notes for the Auckland Rose Society Magazine for more than 25 years and also currently supplies Cultural Notes to the Franklin District Rose Society for use in the Franklin magazine as well. We have lost count of the pruning, grafting and rose culture presentations Max has performed over the last couple of decades, both for Auckland members as well as for the public, and he is always happy to help new people with their rose questions, offer advice and simply visit gardens to help out with any rose problems they may have. Each year he has helped to prune members’ roses and prune for members of the public. Many a donation has been received by the Society on the back of his annual endeavours over the last few decades.
An avid Exhibitor Max has won multiple show awards over the years and has been a regular on the Champions bench at the Auckland Show, as well as exhibiting and winning awards at the Franklin show every now and then whilst enjoying the short trip south. Max has always been there to help with the Auckland Show set-up, Stewarding, and the taking down of the Show and will also help to man the gazebo for us at the Auckland Festival of Roses at the Parnell Rose Gardens this year.
His garden is known for its two-storey high Papa Meilland and 3+ metre wide Berolina and he still maintains around 100 roses on his 880sqm section in Mt Wellington. Max has also been responsible for the Metlifecare Highland Park rose gardens for the last decade, helping to maintain hundreds of roses there in his day to day role as a gardener for the village.
We have no hesitation in nominating Max for the Frank Penn Award and feel it would be fitting recognition for his tireless efforts in supporting the Society and promoting the Rose.
Max Bullen receiving the Frank Penn Memorial Award 2019 from the New Zealand Rose Society President Janet Pike
Auckland Rose Society 