At a national level, the New Zealand Rose Society provides several publications to its members – the cultural handbook, the New Zealand Rose Review and the New Zealand Rose Annual.

Year: 1931

Frank Penn Memorial Award – Presented to a member of a District Rose Society who has given outstanding service, at a local level, towards promoting roses and rose growing. New Zealand Rose Award - Presented to a person who has given outstanding service to the rose industry. New Zealand Rose Society Life Members - Presented to a person who has given outstanding service to the New Zealand Rose Society. TA Stewart Memorial Award - Presented to a person deemed to have given outstanding service to the rose in Australia or New Zealand.

‘To implant the rose in the hearts and gardens of the people’

Founded in 1931, the New Zealand Rose Society (Inc) is made up of district rose societies working at a local level to ‘To implant the rose in the hearts and gardens of the people’ which is the motto of the New Zealand Rose Society. District rose societies hold meetings, organise rose shows and pruning demonstrations, publish newsletters and arrange garden visits. National Conventions and shows are also organised where rosarians meet, learn from each other and show their best blooms. Rose societies also compete against one another in groups for Rose Ranfurly Shields. It also operates the New Zealand International Rose Trial Grounds at Palmerston North in partnership with the Palmerston North City Council.