SPRING ROSE SHOW 2026
Saturday 7th November 2026 1pm – 5pm
Here is your Spring Rose Show flyer! And here is the official schedule.
The Spring Rose Show is the premiere rose-lovers’ event in Victoria.
Each year, it is at the time roses all across the southern states are at peak bloom that the Spring Rose Show is held.
Rosarians- from those with decades of experience to first-timers, from nearby and from interstate, clash blooms in combat for the Championship prize and a host of other awards across a range of categories. Their spectacular entries, nurtured and prepared for months, are proudly displayed at the Spring Rose Show; hundreds of superb roses with their incredible fragrance.
WHERE – NEW VENUE!
Harold Box Hall
31B Marcus Road, Dingley
Vic 3172
Admission:
Adults $5, Concession $4, Children under 12 free
At the Spring Rose Show you may find:
- Thousands of the most beautiful and fragrant roses.
- Floral Art Exhibition and competition.
- Rose photographic contest winners exhibit
- Consultant Rosarians
- Members’ Table
- Raffles
- Nurseries and other vendors -details below
- Devonshire Teas:
- Great Hall main rose exhibition-
Rose Photographic Competition
Roses make irresistible photographic subjects: backlit, or dew-covered, on misty mornings or aglow in the golden hour. All rose society members from all states in Australia are invited to go forth, inspired, to capture roses at their most glorious, and to enter your images in the contest. The winning entries will be exhibited at the Spring Rose Show.
The 2026 registration form will be available for download as the Spring Rose Show date gets nearer.
Download the competition rules and entry form.
Floral Art Exhibition and competition.
Competing for the grand prize are spectacular botanical arrangements.
Consultant Rosarians
Experts are available for freely shared advice and inspiration on rose selection and care.
Membership Table
Will be centrally positioned where you can easily find us. There is the opportunity to ask members about their experience in Rose Society, and to join if you wish. The spring rose show is a great place to meet members and find out all about the regular events and learning experiences that take place at meetings when we get together.
Raffles
Tickets are inexpensive and the prizes are of high quality. Past prizes have included art works, Felco Garden tools [renowned as the Rolls Royce of garden gear], sacks of specialist fertilisers, and rose plants. This year’s prizes are:
- Tagged 4 Life- Botanical & Memorial Tags
- Felco tools
- Neutrog soil nutrition
Nurseries
In the East Hall are local rose growers with some of the best loved and/or rare roses for sale, including old garden roses.
- Daniel Hannemann Roses
- Reliable Roses
This year’s special vendors
- Felco
- Tagged 4 Life- Botanical & Memorial Tags
Devonshire Teas
Opulent jam and cream scones, and thirst-quenching hot tea and coffee. You can overdose on gorgeousness, then head into the tearoom to flop down, debrief and recharge.
YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE
ANYONE is welcome to bring roses along and exhibit them for competition, experienced or not!
If you are new to rose exhibiting there is an encouraging novice section, and there will be non-competitive displays as well. Just bring whatever roses happen to be blooming (OR deploy a killer strategy to get a competitive edge), and contribute to the total effect, which will be heavenly.
Sandra is available to be contacted, to welcome you and guide you through your first steps into taking part in the exhibition.
Spring Rose Show prep
From 05:00 am, helpers start setting up the hall, which is open at 05.30 am for competitors to begin to set up their exhibits with all precision possible within a very limited time frame.
By 10:00 am sharp all exhibits are in place, and at 10.20 am the judges, in strict seclusion, get busy selecting the best of the best.
By the time the doors open at 1 pm, the winners have been chosen and the exhibits are ready for everyone to come and see. The awards are given and received with much joy and pride in the later part of Sunday afternoon, along with the drawing of the raffle prizes…
