Established in 1969, as a Jaycee project in conjunction with numerous community groups. They were officially opened by the Governor General Sir Arthur Porritt, and were featured as part of the 1971 Inaugural World Rose Convention held in Hamilton. During the Waikato Wars of 1864, the grounds were the site of a military constabulary. Located in Gorst Street.
Te Awamutu Rose Gardens
Te Awamutu Rose Garden
There are 7 related items to this topic
Image
McWhannell album 26
Date: 1977 to 1979
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-q-279
Description: Photographs of family and friends, mostly taken in New Zealand by Rhoda McWhannell. There is one group of scenes relating to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family in the Kloof and Drakensberg Mountains areas of South Africa. The New Zealand scenes include friends at Rozel, the home of Rhoda and Frederick McWhannell at Ohaupo; numbers of different varieties of gum trees, which Frederick McWhannell had specialised in; friends' gardens; photographs of flowers including roses, dahlias, eucalypts, water lilies, acacia and irises; and the rose garden and fountain at Te Awamutu Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with purple vinyl cover; 35 x 30 cm
Image
Transparencies of rose shows and floral art
Date: 1979-1980
From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection
Reference: PA12-12028
Description: Colour transparencies of rose shows and floral art taken by James (Jim) Watt, 1979-1980. The 1980 NZ Rose Show in Tauranga is featured. Images from here include roses and the Federation of Country Women's Institute display. A 1979 rose show is also featured, possibly in Te Awamutu or Hamilton. Unidentified people appear in some photographs, sometimes preparing roses for display. The Te Awamutu Rose Gardens are photographed with the fountain designed by Fred Graham, which depicts landing birds, featured. Accompanying note reads "Enid, Jim's wife, won lots of awards for roses... she had over 200 rose bushes in her beautiful garden at Whangamata". Quantity: 14 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies
Image
Christ Church (Ohaupo?), November 1963; and Te Awamutu Rose Garden and Hamilton Rose Ga...
Date: Between 1963 and 1982
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA12-8854
Description: The first 3 slides show the Rev Claude Hyde's farewell at Christ Church (Ohaupo), including portraits of the Rev Hyde, Les Turnwald and Nell Turnwald. The rest of the slides on this sheet show views in the Te Awamutu Rose Garden and the Hamilton Lake Rose Garden (Rogers Rose Garden) taken in Summer 1982. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm
Image
McWhannell album 27
Date: 1985
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-q-280
Description: Photographs of family and friends, taken by Rhoda McWhannell, and some by Keith Orange (the husband of Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat (nee McCurdie)). A series of scenes show Mavis Commons in her home and garden at Cambridge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown vinyl cover, with embossed kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30.0 x 35.6 cm
Image
McWhannell album 28
Date: 1985 to 1986
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-q-281
Description: Photographs of family and friends, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell, many of them taken at her home `Rozel'. Most of the people are not named in this album, but many have been identified from images in earlier albums in the Rhoda McWhannell collection. Scenes include groups of friends, some at the celebration for Rhoda McWhannell's 90th birthday, some in the Rose Garden at Te Awamutu; a group outside Christ Church at Ohaupo on St Luke's Day, 1985 with the Rev. Ken Baigent; gardens; three of a group of school children at Te Awamutu planting a kauri tree with Rhoda McWhannell; two taken in the garden of Hazel Le Rougetel in Hampshire, England; one of Rhoda McWhannell's niece Sally Pat Orange (nee McCurdie) and her son, who live in South Africa, and a scene of poinsettias growing in her garden at Kloof. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon vinyl cover, entitled `Photographs' in gold lettering; 30 x 35 cm
Image
McWhannell album 30
Date: [Between 1956 and 1980]
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA1-q-283
Description: Album of photographs relating to family and friends, travel, farming (including horticultural nurseries), and gardens, chiefly taken by Rhoda McWhannell. The front page of the album contains 26 postage stamps from RSA (Republic of South Africa). One group shows individual children of different cultures issued for Christmas 1977; one group shows different varieties of South African plants inclduing proteas and leucodendrons; one image is of the university at Stellenbosch; and two are of historical events at Ulundi and Isandlwana. The first part of the album relates to Rhoda McWhannell's brother and his family. Several are of Bill McCurdie's daughter Kirsten and her children in England, including views of Christ's Hospital School at Lincoln; others are of Bill and Inga McCurdie, with Kirsten and her children Simon and Alex in South Africa. Photographs of `Rozel', the McWhannell farm and tree nursery are the main topic of the rest of the album. These range in time from the 1950s to 1980. One small sequence shows the township of Ohaupo in 1960, with comments on buildings later demolished, and the contrast in 1980. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue vinyl cover; embossed pattern of kowhai flowers, entitled `Photographs'; 30 x 35 cm
Image
Rozel, the farm and homestead of the McWhannell family at Ohaupo, "Illustrations for jo...
Date: Between 1960 and 1985
From: McWhannell, Rhoda, 1898-1996: Diaries, journals and photographs, particularly relating to forestry, farming and domestic life at Ōhaupō
Reference: PA12-8851
Description: The first 8 slides are entitled "Rozel. Illustrations for journal". They include "Teddy's oak in bloom", views of their plantation showing kauri, cedars, kowhai, flax, and golden willow. The next 14 slides are entitled "Projects". They include views of a kowhai in the Rozel garden, the fountain and roses in the Te Awamutu Rose Garden; two views of a climbing plant on the wall of the Mormon Temple at Temple View near Hamilton; branches of a cedar of Lebanon; flowers of eucalyptus leucoxylon and eucalyptus ficifolia, and kowhai flowers. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm