The Rosarium at Mount Tomah Botamic Garden, it is outside of Sydney. Thers is also the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain within the city. Unfortunately, I didn't get to visit, although I took one of the city tour buses that went through the garden (lovely). You might also want to contact the Rose Society of New South Wales, they may have some recommendations. If you have time, do take the red and blue tour buses, they run regularly, have on-off priviliges, and are a good way to see a lot of the Sydney sites. Have a great time, that is a terrific time of year to visit!

If you have an interest in Native Plants, the GA Perimeter College/Decatur Campus has a Native Plant Botanical Garden that is open to the public. Don't know if they have a guide available during weekends, but every plant is labeled, so a self directed tour is possible. The garden is accessible from the Panthersville Rd parking area, just beyond the Campus buildings. On the website below, click on Directions for map and driving directios from I-285. Enjoy your trip! Rb Here is a link that might be useful: Georgia Perimeter College/Decatur

all the National trust properties have good gardens, Not to be missed at this time of year are the walled rose gardens at Mottisfont, the scent is wonderful, The Hillier arboritum in Hampshire is also wonderful, (nearby Pococks Roses is the local place to see and purchase roses) Hinton Ampner is another N.Trust property with a lovely garden. Stourhead Gardens, also N.T. are not too far out of the way on your journey.

Thanks for this write-up, Woody. It was great having you here. A great start for a day otherwise filled with painting a room. Which is why I have time to reply only now ;-). Heritage is I think my favourite Austin rose, despite its tendency for the blooms to scatter in the heat. It is also a sentimental favourite, I wrote the story halfway this thread: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3503314/forgiven?n=12 Your picture of Munstead Wood captures the colour so well, the lack of focus is no problem. The first blooms are not very big, but look at this one from September last year. It was bigger than my hand, and the colour was like in your picture. My phone just could not capture it. The fragrance is heavy and deep old rose: I got the Deinanthe from Lost Horizons last year. Then it had one flower head, now there are three. They had several of them in the gardens at LH, some were big clumps, but I saw no running tendencies. I have heavy alkaline clay soil. I may have put some wet peat deep in the planting hole, as a water reservoir, but that will not really do much to acidify the soil. I find that some acid lovers do unexpectedly well for me, like Kirengeshoma palmata too. But I have never ventured into azaleas. People in the neighbourhood supply proof that it can't be done ;-). Carefree Delight was at its greatest glory in 2015. It was so heavy, it threatened to bring the neighbor's fence down. So with bleeding heart I cut it back and finished literally minutes before a violent thunderstorm. It will never be like that again, but I still dream of letting it loose once more: And my Tali, hunter of everything that moves. I will have to introduce her to JBs!