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'Selwyn Toogood' rose References
Book (2001) Page(s) 43. Earlier this year (2001) New Zealand lost one of its favourite sons. I refer to Selwyn Toogood, an entertainer well loved in this country for thirty years on radio and television.....
Book (1999) Page(s) 49. Nigel Pratt. A Touch of Homesickness. Why don't people wear buttonholes any more, as Selwyn Toogood did with such style not long ago.
Book (1997) Page(s) 44. The Fotheringhams and the late Jenny Simmers kept Selwyn Toogood supplid with rose buttonholes for his television show, Beauty and the Beast, which was produced in Dunedin.
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 542. Selwyn Toogood Miniature, medium pink, 1983, 'Heidi' x Seedling; Eagle, P.B. & D.; Southern Cross Nursery. Description... light moss on stems...
Book (1988) Page(s) 66. Includes photo(s). ‘Selwyn Toogood’. Eagle 1983. ‘Heidi’ seedling. Medium rose pink. The buds are lightly mossed, the foliage is light green and the plant is slow growing. The Eagles called it after Selwyn Toogood, the jovial host of Beauty and the Beast who always wore a rose in his buttonhole. During winter it was hard to get full-sized roses so the Eagles supplied him with miniatures and their perfect form delighted him. They named this mini as a tribute to him.
Book (1985) Page(s) 110. Includes photo(s). 'Selwyn Toogood'. Eagle, 1983. 'Heidi' seedling. The lightly mossed buds open into small well-shaped flowers of medium rose pink. The foliage is light green and the plant small and slow growing.
Book (1978) Page(s) 117. Over the past five years Mesdames Fotheringham and Simmers of the Otago Rose Society have had the enviable task of supplying roses free of charge for the buttonhole of the chairman (or the Beast) of the Dunedin based TV programme, Beauty and the Beast. This has been good publicity for the Queen of Flowers as evidenced by the stream of complaints received by Dunedin TV on those rare occasions when Selwyn Toogood has misnamed or failed to name the rose in question....
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