Our Catalogues
Dreaming of an old fashioned garden filled with the intense fragrance of old-fashioned roses, sweet herbs, and old world perennials, a garden to gently potter in, to dream in?
There is no such thing as a 'no maintenance garden', unless it is put down to green concrete - and even that cracks. But a garden based on deliciously fragrant heirloom plants comes much closer to carefree gardening than almost any other. Many of the varieties in our catalogue are around a century or more old. Some of the rose varieties are millennia old. To survive such a long time they needed to have very tough constitutions indeed, capable of withstanding the worst extremes climate could throw at them. Above all they had to truly touch our hearts with their loyalty, their exceptional beauty and their fragrance O course we also offer many truly delicious heirloom vegetable varieties too as we have done ever since Honeysuckle Cottage began in 1977.
The antique plant varieties listed in our catalogues have been propagated by budding, grafting and various other kinds of vegetative propagation by h generation after generation of gardeners. To be cherished and propagated by so many and for so long means that a variety is very special indeed. And of course more modern varieties are also in the catalogue if they have truly proved their garden worth.
Catalogue: 'Roses of History and Romance'
This fully descriptive catalogue is filled with the intensely fragrant roses of the past such as the Gallicas like Tuscany, Damasks such as Mme Hardy, Albas like The White Rose of York, Portlands, Centifolias, Moss roses, Bourbohs, Musk Hybrids and the miraculously tough Rugosas
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gorgeous old Tea roses like Lady Hillingdon with their great showers of large, fragrant, exquisitely coloured flowers like almost year round and the exquisite very floriferous China roses ideal for hotter and more humid climates as well as traditional rose growing areas, cherished old Hybrid Perpetuals such as with their cabbage rose flowers, polypoms like Cecile Brunner and Perle D'Or, nostalgia Hybrid Teas and a selection of the best modern roses and shrub roses
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A huge variety of David Austin roses with their Old World blooms and utterly delicious fragrance together with constant blooming throughout the season
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A huge selection of very repeat flowering deliciously fragrant climbing Noisette roses from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Edwardian ramler roses, climbing roses spanning the centuries, and the exquisite wild roses and their hybrids such as 'Golden Wings'.
$3.00 including postage.
Catalogue: 'A Heritage of Plants for Fragrance, Use and Delight'
This huge fully descriptive catalogue contains an extraordinary range of rare and antique perennial plants, shrubs, fragrance plants, an incredible selection of culinary, useful, fragrant and medicinal herbs, many rare edibles, Australia’s largest range of sweet violets including many 19th century French varieties and Parma violets, a remarkable range of lavenders, and Australia’s largest selection of scented geraniums, clove pinks, and of superbly fragrant heirloom sweetpea varieties, some dating to the fifteenth century...
$4.00 including postage
our catalogues can be purchased at the bottom
of the Gifts and Products section.
Getting to Know and Grow Heritage Plants
If you would like to know more about gardening with old roses and heirloom plants, we stock two books we know you will treasure by internationally published author Dr Judyth McLeod:
To see Judyth’s other books, go to the Gifts and Products section of this website, and also click on her Author Website link on the Home Page. The website also includes lots of interesting garden based blogs.
'The Cottager' Magazine has become a collector’s item. Published quarterly for a decade, it is cram packed with wonderful articles on heirloom flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables, designing period gardens, visits to famous old gardens, garden history, organic gardening, advice on how to grow all the heirloom plants, and also masses of recipes and snippets of culinary history. The magazine never carried external advertising so there is so much in each edition's 48 pages for your money. In addition it is beautifully and uniquely illustrated throughout.
Check out our Gift and Products Section to purchase your own selection - or take advantage of this remarkable treasure trove offer of garden reading for cold and rainy days:
Ten different issues of The Cottager magazine (our choice) for just $48.00 including postage anywhere within Australia. (Overseas customers please inquire about postage cost.) This is a saving of $12.00
$48 including postage within Australia.
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