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Jessie Calder Garden, Queen's Park, Invercargill
Photo courtesy of Tomartyr
Rose (public) Garden
Listing last updated on Tue Nov 2024
First and foremost, Jessie Calder Garden is a rose garden. Located within Invercargill's large recreational and botanical park known as Queen's Park, it comprises mostly Old Garden Roses and earlier Modern Roses, some of which are rare cultivars. Also a few David Austin varieties and some Species Roses. The nearby Henry Edginton Rose Garden is dedicated to Modern Roses.
2091. Heritage Roses New Zealand, Vol. 22,No. 2
p26. Jessie Calder, the person, died in 1978 at the age of 63 years. She grew up in a close-knit family in the Winton District. Her love of gardening and 'old world' plants was an influence in deciding how her bequest to the Invercargill Parks and Reserves would be used.
2015 Australian Rose Annual
p145. Hayden Foulds, Gardens of New Zealand. The Jessie Calder Rose Garden opened in 1989 specialises in heritage roses containing one of the best collections in New Zealand. It has 900 plants of 400 cutivars.
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