Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden

Coordinates: 37°41′10″S 144°26′12″E / 37.6862°S 144.4366°E

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Maddingley Park path running north-west from the south gate. The Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden is behind the central cedar.

North view of the 1905 Dickie bandstand surrounded by the heritage rose collection. The six beds are numbered from the right.

Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden is a collection of rare and unusual roses, mostly hybrid teas, bred in the early 20th century. It is located in Maddingley Park, Bacchus Marsh, a town and suburb some 50 kilometres (30 mi) west of Melbourne and 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of Melton. The rose garden was established from 2009, with stock donated by rosarian John Nieuwesteeg.

History of the park

Originally a police paddock, Maddingley Park was fitted out for picknickers and other day visitors from Melbourne when the railway station at Bacchus Marsh opened in 1887.^[1] The Dickie bandstand was built in 1905 and, by the Second World War, the park had developed gardens and landscaping features, many of which have since been lost.^[2] Today, the park contains a football and cricket oval, grass tennis courts and a netball court. There are many large 19th-century tree specimens and a second Memorial Rose Garden on the north side, near the park's north-west entrance on Bacchus Marsh–Geelong road.

The Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden

The garden is located on the south side of the park, near the entrance from Bacchus Marsh railway station. It consists of 40 heritage roses. There is a substantial group bred or found in Australia, including rarities by Alister Clark, Olive Fitzhardinge, Frank Riethmuller and Patrick Grant.^[1] Others are unusual or unique in Australian public collections. The true 'Mlle de Sombreuil' is also found here. Some roses, such as Peter Lambert's 'Frau Karl Druschki', became the parents of hundreds of others.

Six beds of roses are arranged from north-west to south-east around the bandstand. More roses climb up the base of the bandstand itself. Two hedges of the China rose 'Mutabilis' frame the collection to the west and east.

The garden was established with support from John Nieuwesteeg (pronounced New-Steeg), a Yellingbo rosarian who identified many of the lost roses of Alister Clark and holds a significant collection of Clark and other old roses for the Garden Plant Conservation Association of Australia.^[3]^[4]

The Maddingley Park roses are a selection from his personal holdings and he gave about 26 roses over four years. From 2009 they were planted there by the Friends of Maddingley Park to complement the bandstand. About a tenth of the roses have not survived. The garden was named after John Nieuwesteeg in 2011.

Catalogue of the roses

This catalogue raisonné collates maps and lists supplied by Friends of Maddingley Park, the Peter Cox reference book Australian Roses^[5] and the website Help Me Find Roses.^[6] The Sydney-bred 'Midnight Sun' in Bed 5 appears to have died and not been replaced. Most of the photos were taken in the Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden itself.

Bed 1

"Bishop's Lodge Precious Porcelain"^[10] Found at Bishop's Lodge, Hay NSW. Hybrid Tea. Big yellow singles fading to cream. Red smudges on the petal edges suggest this rose may be 'Irish Harmony', Dickson, Northern Ireland, 1904.

Bed 2

'Grande-Duchesse Charlotte'^[15] Ketten Frères, Luxemburg 1942. HT. Tomato red, with huge red and yellow thorns on the new growth. In 1942 Charlotte was monarch in her own right of Luxemburg but living in London in exile from German occupation.

Bed 3

"Dettmann No.6"^[23] Found in the Kyneton VIC garden of Mr Hugh Dettmann. Pernetiana. Semi-double blooms with petals apricot-orange on the front, salmon-pink on the back. Good scent. In spring the orange can turn a brilliant sulphur yellow.

Bed 4

'Baxter Beauty'^[26] Found at Baxter VIC before 1937. Tea. Light pink–apricot. A sport of 'Lorraine Lee' (Alister Clark 1938), to which it often reverts.

'Joanna Hill'^[27] Hill 1928. Hybrid Tea. Yellow flushed orange at the base; classic Hybrid Tea form. Scented but to some noses not scented enough.

'Mrs Henry Morse'^[31] McGredy 1919. HT. Petals are cream tinted rose-pink on the front, pink-veined vermillion on the back. Sweet scented and long-flowering at Maddingley Park. Mrs Morse was wife and mother of rose-breeders.

Bed 5

'Ellen Willmott'^[33] Archer 1935. Hybrid Tea. Soft pink and orange, single. Miss Willmott was the author of the compendious *The Genus Rosa*. When this rose was released, she ordered 400 plants of it.

'Midnight Sun'^[38] Patrick Grant, Macksville NSW 1921. HT. Semi-double crimson-black with black buds and good scent. From the garden of Mary Allen of Helora, near Warragul VIC, when she was 96.

'Ophelia'^[41] Blooms in flushes all season. Strong, sweet scent. The great classic hybrid tea of the between-war period, bred in France but released by Paul and Son in England in 1912. The parent and model of hundreds of roses of the 1920s and 1930s.

Bed 6

"C. W. Ellis"^[44] Hybrid Tea found on Ellis's grave at Mitcham SA. White, semi-double with open yellow stamens. Lemon scent. Colonised by ants, which pollinate it. This rose is a rarity, almost impossible to strike from cuttings. Thought to be 'Mrs David McKee', Dickson, Northern Ireland, 1904.^[45]

Hedges

Bandstand

References

^ ^a ^b Nieuwesteeg, John (Winter 2012). "The Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden at Maddingley Park, Bacchus Marsh". Journal of Heritage Roses in Australia. 34 (2): 26.
^ Jounet, Donald. "Maddingley Park". Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ Garden Plant Conservation Association of Australia
^ Kinsey, Melanie. "Collection Holder Interviews – John Nieuwesteeg". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^ Cox, Peter (1999). Australian roses: roses and rose breeders of Australia. Hawthorn, Vic.: Bloomings Books. p. 49. ISBN 1876473029.
^ "Help Me Find Roses". Retrieved 4 April 2013.
^ "'Etoile de Hollande". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Frau Karl Druschki'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ ^a ^b "'Lady Edgeworth David'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "Bishop's Lodge Precious Porcelain". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Charlotte Armstrong". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Bonnie Jean'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Radiance'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Duchess of Wellington'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Grande-Duchesse Charlotte'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "Vestey's Yellow Tea". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Pink Gruss an Aachen'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Lady Woodward'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ Timewell, Eric. Frank Riethmuller : life and roses. St Kilda, Vic.: E.Timewell. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-9873756-0-5.
^ "'Mrs A.R.Waddell'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ Chapman, Lloyd. "The Barbiers and their Roses". Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
^ "'Picture'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "Dettmann No. 6". Help Me Find. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
^ "'Rose Gaujard'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Baxter Beauty'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Joanna Hill'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Condesa de Sástago'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
^ "'John C. M. Mensing". Help Me Find. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
^ "Camnethan Cherry Red". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Mrs Henry Morse'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "Bishop's Lodge Linton Boy". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Ellen Willmott'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Mrs Herbert Stevens'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Kootenay'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Mlle de Sombreuil'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Warrawee'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
^ "'Midnight Sun'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^ "'Crimson Glory'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "Bishop's Lodge Linton Gold". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "Ophelia". Help Me Find. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
^ "Rod Stillman". Help Me Find. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
^ "Madame Butterfly". Help Me Find. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
^ "C.W. Ellis". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Mrs David McKee'". Help Me Find Roses. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
^ "'Sunny South'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Mission Bells'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "'Mutabilis'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ "Miss Madden's Climber". Help Me Find Roses. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
^ "'Rose Professor Sieber'". Help Me Find. Retrieved 24 March 2013.

Roses

List of Rosa species

Rose cultivars

Rose classification

Uses and products

Threats

Diseases	Anthracnose Black spot Canker Downy mildew Grey mould Powdery mildew Phragmidium mucronatum (rust) Sooty moulds Specific replant disease Verticillium wilt
Pests	Helicotylenchus nannus Meloidogyne hapla Pratylenchus penetrans Pratylenchus vulnus Tylenchorhynchus Xiphinema diversicaudatum