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Listing last updated on Tue Apr 2025

Moorna St
Renmark, South Australia 5341
Australia

Ruston's sold cut flowers and budwood within Australia.
It was formerly owned by David Ruston, now late; his private collection (see separate entry) was adjacent to Ruston's Roses.

Ruston's Rose Garden included the Australian Tea-Noisette-China Collection, begun in 2007, an initiative of David Ruston and Heritage Roses in Australia Inc.

The property suffered from being on the market for four years, and changes of ownership The current owners (Stoney Pinch Quarry, 2019), are maintaining the the Tea-Noisette-China bed, but the rest of the HRIA plantings were beyond salvaging, and the roses have been removed from the plant list.

The focus on the HRIA Collections at Ruston's had for some years been to propagate rare roses, to place in other public gardens as backup. HRIA's connection with Ruston's is to be  negotiated (as of May 2024).

Varieties within the Collections which are not currently in commerce may be requested from some specialist Australian nurseries. Budwood has been available for purchase in the past but the current situation is not clear. 

 A focus of the business is producing various gins, including rose-flavoured.The property is now known as Ruton's Distillery.

As of 24 May 2024, the garden is not open to the public.

In May 2025, all remaining roses on the property are to be removed.

[[From Sean McCann's Roses Abroad column in the March 1998 American Rose Society's Rose magazine, pp. 16-17:] No matter what you hear about his place, actually visiting the garden is sure to surpass your expectations. First of all the scale of the operation is immense. There are 50,000 bushes in 4,000 varieties which makes it one of the largest rose gardens in the world.]