If you are looking for a wide range of roses for sale online in Australia, we’ve got you covered, featuring both new releases and beloved classic varieties.
Garden rvarieties include cut flower roses, climbing, standard , weeping types, heritage roses, and miniature or dwarf types.
Roses are available for sale year-round, either as potted plants or as bare-rooted plants from early autumn to late winter.
Modern Rose Varieties are generally classified as:
Hybrid Tea:
(Origin: France, mid-1800s – result of crossing Tea and Hybrid Perpetual roses)
Famous for large, high-centered blooms on long stems—ideal for cutting.
Known for long pointy buds on long stems, great for cut flowers but sometimes lacks perfume and can be prone to disease.
Floribunda:
(Origin: Denmark, early 1900s – hybrid of Hybrid Tea and Polyantha)
Compact bushes with clusters of blooms, great for mass color in gardens.
A more compact plant with shorter stems and better disease resistance, a cross between a polyantha and a Hybrid Tea.
Miniature:
Bred to retain rose form on a tiny scale; often houseplants or edging plants)
Small in stature and bloom size but fully-formed rose appearance.
Characterized by small bushes and small flowers, descended from the dwarf China Rose ‘Rouletii.’
Grandiflora Roses:
(Origin: USA, 1950s – hybrid of Hybrid Tea and Floribunda)
Large blooms like Hybrid Teas, but in clusters on tall plants.
Heirloom or Old Garden Roses:
(All rose types known before 1867, including Gallica, Damask, Alba, etc.)
Fragrant, historical roses with once-yearly blooms and romantic form.
Often very fragrant, these European-style roses thrive in cool climates and include Damask, Gallica, Albas, Bourbons, and Portland.
Polyantha Roses:
(Origin: France, late 1800s – cross between dwarf China roses and Rosa multiflora)
Compact, bushy plants producing profuse clusters of small to medium-sized flowers. Known for hardiness, continuous bloom, and suitability for borders or mass plantings.
Rambling Roses:
These roses live up to their name by sprawling among neighbouring plants like climbing types but with a less upright growth habit. They produce many flowers but do not typically repeat bloom.
Rugosa Roses:
(Origin: East Asia – species rose Rosa rugosa and its hybrids)
Extremely hardy, salt-tolerant, and disease-resistant shrubs with wrinkled (“rugose”) foliage. Fragrant blooms followed by large hips, ideal for naturalizing and coastal planting.
English Roses (David Austin Types):
A Floribunda cross designed to provide the best of everything: fragrance, repeat flowering, and hardiness.
Climbing Roses:
(Not a separate class by origin – selected for growth habit)
Long canes ideal for training on arches, fences, or trellises; many repeat-blooming.
Shrub Roses
(Broad class – includes hybrids and species roses bred for landscape use)
Hardy, repeat-flowering, and disease-resistant with informal shapes.
Roses for sale online (Rose Nurseries and plants Australia-wide)
One of Australia's leading Rose suppliers. Large range of Bare root rose plants available for delivery Australia wide from June to August. For Rose care information and to order online visit our website.
www.treloarroses.com.au
Bare rooted and potted. Old World, David Austin, Bush & Standard Roses. Over 400 varieties available by Mail Order.
www.magicgardenroses.com.au
400 Galston Road, Galston NSW 2159
Huge range of potted roses available all year - weeping, standards, climbing, groundcover, bush, David Austin, Smooth Touch, Old World, New Releases. Rose Garden Design Service.
www.greeneroses.com.au
470 Monbulk-Silvan Road Monbulk VIC 3793
"Guaranteed mail order flowering bulbs, perennials, roses, trees, landscaping plants, garden accessories and community fundraising Austra lia-wide."
www.gardenexpress.com.au
357 Monbulk Road SILVAN VIC 3795
Guaranteed "garden worthy" bulbs, plants and perennials. Visit the website to browse our large range of daffodils or request the latest free catalogue.
www.tesselaar.net.au
RELIABLE ROSES – ph: (03) 9737 9313
40 George Road Silvan Vic 3795
Specialist growers of Species, Old Fashioned and more difficult to find Modern types. Approx. 800 varieties from which to choose.
HEDGEROW ROSE NURSERY – ph: 0260366167
Kelvin Grove Holbrook NSW 2644
Growers and suppliers of Heritage ,David Austin, Hybrid Tea, Alistair Clark
LADYBIRD – ph:03 5966 8586
PO Box 224 Warburton VIC 3799
Over 4,000 varieties that we can graft from. Heritage , pre & post 1945 ht
SILKIES ROSE FARM AT CLONBINANE – ph 03 5787 1123 mob 0418 337 765
550 Cnr Spur and McDonalds Rds Clonbinane VIC 3658
Opening hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday 9am – 4.30pm
Organic Nursery Climbers, Pillars, Ramblers, Old fashioned, Standard, David Austin, Hybrid Tea, Floribundas.
TREWALLYN NURSERY – ph: (07) 41597313
PO Box 377 Bundaberg QLD 4670
Hybrid Tea, Bush, Floribunda, David Austin, Old Fashioned, Miniature, Standard and Polyantha.
NEWSTEAD ROSE NURSERY – ph: 03 97566628
387 Monbulk Rd Monbulk VIC 3793
Huge range. Standard, climbing, HT, Bush, Groundcover.
BARTONS ROSE FARM – ph: (07) 54 638 029
541 Kents Lagoon Road, Kalbar Qld 4309
Specialists for QLD. Over 400 varieties. Huge range of standards & weepers.
ROWORTHS NURSERY – ph: 08 93021932
30 Queensway Rd Landsdale WA 6065
Over 1200 varieties, including Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, David Austin, Climbing, Miniature and Standards in Western Australia.
These are the world’s most popular flowering plants, with their origins in China. The first cultivated rose varieties reached Europe in the late 18th century. Even before that, roses had significant historical and cultural importance in Europe, from the War of the Roses to Josephine’s rose collection at Chateau de Malmaison.
Possums eating Rosebuds
Possums love rose buds, so what can be done to deter them?
Possum deterrents include:
- Poss Off: A mix of chilli and garlic.
- Camphor: Said to deter possums.
- Scat: Made from aluminium sulphate.
- D-Ter: An animal repellent.
- Arbor Co’s Poss Off: An electronic device emitting ultrasonic sound waves.
- Stray Ban: Another electronic device.
Share your ideas if you have additional tips. See our animal deterrents page for suppliers