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Rose gardens have long been symbols of romance and elegance. Loved for large blooms and divine fragrance, the rose is a stalwart of the English garden and there are few plants that can rival its versatility. Available as climbers, ramblers, bushes, shrubs and ground cover roses, in a variety of colors, fragrances and repeat flowering or single blooms, there are a variety of rose garden ideas for almost every position. 

Picture a rose garden and it may well conjure images of formal rose gardens designed to pay homage to the classic elegance of roses. Often these gardens consist of symmetrical, geometric borders edged with trimmed box-hedges and infilled with neatly trimmed rose bushes, often arranged by color. However, you don’t need to plant roses in a formal rose garden to appreciate the beauty of roses, there are numerous ways to enjoy them in your garden from climbing over a pergola to in pots on the patio.  

We’ve rounded up an array of rose garden ideas to introduce them into your outdoor space.

Rose garden ideas

Roses are such beautiful flowers that many designers like to create a dedicated area for them. ‘Roses should be the star of the garden,’ says Florida-based garden designer Matthew Giampietro . ‘I like to incorporate roses into a garden by designing a formal rose garden or outdoor ‘room’ for roses, or even just a border of roses.’ 

In times gone by, walled rose gardens were known as rosaries and often contained nothing but roses. Modern gardening practice tends to favor designing a rose garden so that roses sit amongst perennials, biennials, and annuals, however – both because it looks more contemporary and because it helps to prevent rose sickness. For example, salvias (such as the fabulous hot-pink ‘Cerro Potosí’) are thought to act as natural fungicide because their leaves contain sulphur.

1. Plant roses as hedging or en masse

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‘We like to bring the luxe look of roses into the gardens of modern homes,’ says Pennsylvania-based landscape designer Nathan Tuno , who works at Roots Landscape Inc .  

‘Roses done as a hedge or a large mass grouping work beautifully in contemporary landscapes. Stick with neutral tones such as white or blush, or perhaps yellow to give a pop of color while staying cool and understated. We lean on the Knock Out rose varieties, such as Sunny Knock Out or White Knock Out. They produce an abundance of delicate flowers while being unfussy.’

2. Plant roses for a wildlife garden

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Many garden designers like to use wild species roses (or single and semi-double roses that have the look of wild roses) to create a wonderfully informal, natural look, while providing food for wildlife.

‘I especially love the pasture rose (Rosa carolina),’ says Maryland-based landscape architect and designer Kirsten Coffen . ‘This rose is native to North America and grows especially well in coastal areas and sloping terrain. The bright-pink flowers are born in spring and throughout the summer and are a much loved food source for bees and other pollinators. ’ 

Such wild roses are superb grown as a rose hedge or as part of a mixed native hedge – wonderful wildlife garden ideas.

3. Grow roses through a tree

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Growing a rose through a tree makes for a romantic, beautiful feature in the garden during summer. Make sure you select the right tree and the right rose for a knock-out combination. 

‘Choose a rambler that is not so vigorous that it will smother trees,’ advises Michael Marriott , one of the world's leading rose experts. ‘One of my favorite free-flowering ramblers is ‘Francis E. Lester’ , which has single soft-pink flowers like a wild rose, with a delicious musky fragrance. These are followed by similar quantities of small orange hips. It would be suitable for a medium-sized mature tree like an old apple. The advantage of growing into a tree is that once up there it needs no maintenance so all you have to do is admire it!’ 

4. Grow roses as ground cover

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Procumbent roses sprawl over the ground, quickly suppressing weeds and concealing bare soil, and many of them have single or semi-double flowers that provide nectar for pollinators.  

‘The Flower Carpet roses come in a variety of colors from dark red and bright pink to yellow and white,’ says Kirsten Coffen . ‘As ground cover, they combine beautifully with pale-blue catmints (Nepeta), which offset the hot flower colors. I like to use such roses to create a punch of color near a walkway or entrance space.’

5. Grow a rose garden over a seating area

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Repeat flowering and with beautiful fragrances, roses are a brilliant choice of flower for growing near a seating area. Try training a rambling rose, such as this Phyllis Bide variety by David Austin Roses , across an arch over a bench for a pretty garden retreat. A repeat flowerer with a medium, sweet scent and sprays of small, pale apricot-pink flowers, Phyllis Bide brings a romantic feel to the garden summer long. 

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Take a more informal approach to growing roses and include them as part of a mixed border of shrubs and herbaceous perennials to bring color and height. Planting them alongside plants such as Achillea Mollis and Sea Holly will create a romantic cottage garden feel as these borders at The Cottage Garden at RHS Rosemoor prove. 

7. Plant roses in color blocks for impact

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Planting multiple roses of the same variety is often seen in formal rose gardens and can look truly show-stopping. If doing this be sure to plant in odd numbers. If you're looking for inspiration, The Queen Mother’s Rose Garden at RHS Rosemoor has a fantastic array of modern rose types including Hybrid tea (large-flowered), floribunda (cluster-flowered) and shrub roses.

8. Line a path with rose arches

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Training climbing roses over pergolas and arches along an avenue or pathway can make moving through a garden truly magical, as this image from the walled rose garden at National Trust Mottisfont proves, featuring arches covered in Rose Adelaide d'Orleans. Other climbing roses perfect for growing up an arch include The Generous Gardener, Malvern Hills and Constance Spry – unrivalled for scent. If you’re looking for rose garden inspiration be sure to visit National Trust Mottisfont, home to the National Collection of pre-1900 old-fashioned roses.

9. Pair roses with lavender for a cottage garden feel

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Planting shrub roses with lavender is a classic combination which will guarantee a relaxed cottage feel and will bring color and fragrance throughout the summer. According to the rose experts at David Austin Roses , simple combinations cannot be underestimated; try planting its Boscobel rose with English lavender for a show-stopping and easy-to-maintain display.

10. Use rambling roses to soften garden walls and  structures

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Climbing and rambling roses are a brilliant way to bring height and colour to a garden and are particularly useful if you’re looking to obscure unsightly structures. A classic rambler, David Austin’s Phyllis Bide, is a repeat flowerer that can grow up to 4.5 metres tall making it brilliant for this purpose.

11. Grow a rose garden around a doorway

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Growing a rose around a doorway can really make a feature of an entranceway. If growing a rose around a doorway, seating area, place where people pass or children play, then consider a variety with few thorns such as Mortimer Sackler or The Shepherdess. 

12. Brighten up patios with potted roses

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If space is at a premium then roses can easily be grown in containers to bring scent and color to a patio. Good roses for growing in pots include Harlow Carr, Princess Alexandra of Kent, Desdemona and Vanessa Bell, all available from David Austin Roses . 

Raised garden bed ideas are another great way to incorporate roses into a more structured scheme.

13. Grow a rose over an obelisk to give height to borders

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Growing a climbing rose up an obelisk is a brilliant way to bring height to mixed borders. Loved for its strong, Old Rose scent, Gertrude Jekyll is a brilliant choice for an obelisk which will bring beautiful fragrance and quintessential elegance to any garden. 

14. Create a focal point with a rose-covered pergola

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Growing a climbing or rambling rose over a perogla or gazebo can make a spectacular focal point in a garden. With their cascading, clusters of blooms and whimsical 'rambling' nature ramblers are a great choice for this, including varietes such as Rosa mulliganii, one of the biggest rose varieties, pictured here at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in the care of the National Trust.

How do you start a rose garden?

Prepare your path

The best soil for planting roses should be free-draining, slightly acid and medium in texture – neither sandy nor clayey. If your soil type differs from this, you can improve it by digging in lots of organic material – a few minutes of extra effort at this stage can lead to a healthy plant that gives you years of pleasure.  

Start them well 

It’s not advisable to plant new bushes where other roses have grown in the last three years, as this will greatly increase the risk of ‘rose sickness'. This occurs when fungi that grew around the roots  and soil of the old plant start to attack the new one. The addition of around 30g of mycorrhizal fungi per rose bush is particularly helpful in poorer soil conditions or when roses are planted in areas where roses have previously been grown.  

Choose the right rose

Bush roses look great in island beds mixed with perennials, while miniature varieties make excellent edging plants in front of the taller varieties. Shrub roses on the other hand, planted singly, can make excellent specimen plants, and you can also try clustering shrub varieties to make a flowering hedge. Smaller roses can be grown in pots.

Care for your roses

Deadheading roses is an important part of caring for a rose garden; doing so regularly during flowering season will keep yours neat.

Which roses are best for wildlife?

Roses with single or semi-double flowers because their nectar and pollen are accessible to bees and hoverflies. The golden rule is: if you can’t see the yellow stamens, a rose is not wildlife-friendly.

Great examples include the charming blush-white Jacqueline du Pré and the cheering, striped rosa mundi ( R. gallica ‘Versicolor’ ), which work well in borders. Garden designers increasingly use such single and semi-double varieties to create a contemporary, naturalistic look.

‘For wildlife, I suggest Comte de Champagne with almost single, soft-creamy-yellow flowers of medium size,’ says Michael Marriott . ‘They have many golden-yellow stamens in the center making them very attractive to wildlife. If not deadheaded, they will set a lovely crop of hips. ’

Other great shrub roses that provide hips to feed birds during fall include ‘Scabrosa’ , which has fruit that resembles cherry tomatoes, and ’Geranium’ , which is hung with incredible flagon-shaped scarlet hips in the fall. Many ramblers (such as ‘Francis E. Lester’ ) are also excellent for hips. But not all roses produce hips, so check with your supplier.

Pippa is Content Editor on Homes & Gardens online contributing to Period Living and Country Homes & Interiors print issues. A graduate of Art History and formerly Style Editor at Period Living, she is passionate about architecture, creating decorating content, interior styling and writing about craft and historic homes. She enjoys searching out beautiful images and the latest trends to share with the Homes & Gardens audience. A keen gardener, when she’s not writing you’ll find her growing flowers on her village allotment for styling projects.

30 Beautiful Rose Garden Ideas for Your Backyard

Is there anything more breathtaking than a garden full of roses?

Since time immemorial, roses have played a major role in bringing landscapes to life, beloved for their beautiful, romantic-looking flowers.  In this article, I’ll take you through 30 ideas for designing a rose garden of your own, irrespective of whether your space is big or small. By browsing through our pictures of rose garden design, you’re sure to be struck by inspiration that will have you reaching for your tools and gloves in no time. 

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Climbing Rose Garden Ideas – Arbors

1. Rose Arbors Over Walkways

Just because walkways are functional doesn’t mean they can’t be an integral part of your landscape. Climbing roses are perfect for adorning trellises and arches, making the journey between destinations all the more enjoyable. A rose arch or trellis, like the one in the example above, can be constructed from simple fencing or built with affordable lumber. Over time, you can train your flowers to climb laterally, forming a beautiful canopy overhead. This look is visually stunning and distracts from an otherwise dull concrete pathway.

 

2. A Rose Vine Trellis

For a beautiful and whimsical rose garden design, consider using the natural vines of your climbing roses as part of your trellis structure. It may take a while to get going, but it will be well worth it when you do. To start, you’ll need to construct a bare-bones arbor structure with fencing poles and overhead metal or wire supports. After that, you can start training the canes of your rose bushes by weaving them through and around the supports. As your roses grow, their stems will become thick and robust, twining around each other to form a natural trellis canopy. This looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

 

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Wooden Rose Arches

Curved wooden arbors covered with roses are an attractive way to spruce up your garden or walkway. Trellises support roses wanting to climb and give them space to thrive. Consider building an arch every few feet if you have a long walkway in your garden. Blooming roses add significant pops of color to your landscape and blend well with the natural coloration of the wood. Uniform arbors create a vintage, romantic aesthetic.

 

4. Unusual Rose Arch Ideas

If you’re hoping to move away from traditional trellis structures, have you thought about erecting rose arbors made from metal? The benefit of this is that simple steel arches are not as obtrusive as large wooden structures, keeping 100% of the focus on your flowers. They’re also incredibly durable, as far as rose arches in gardens go. What better way to define a walkway than with beautiful roses that look like they’re forming natural canopies all by themselves?

 

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Rose Pergola Ideas

Another clever way to use trellis structures is to create a rose canopy or pergola. This can turn into the perfect spot to have a chair and tables for entertaining, sheltered from the sun beneath a canopy of flowers. To build a pergola, you first need to construct the base structure in your chosen space, usually from wood or metal. Then, you’ll have to train your roses to climb both vertically and laterally with careful, consistent pruning. As roses are fast-growing, you should have your hideaway ready in no time.

 

 

Roses Adorning Fences

6. Pink Roses Against a White Fence

Amplify a traditional white picket fence with stunning pink roses that peek through and welcome passers-by. This is one of those rose bush garden ideas that is easy to set up and maintain, provided you keep your roses pruned and healthy. All you need is two large rose bushes planted on each side of your entryway or gate. Allow their stems to twine through the fence posts to create a whimsical aesthetic.

 

7. Lavender and Rose Garden Ideas

One of my favorite rose garden ideas for the front yard or backyard is to combine these beautiful blooms with lavender. This is not only a feast for the eyes but for the nose too. Plant climbing roses alongside a neat white fence where they can push through the posts and show off. Border the fence with neat beds of lavender and other light green shrubs. The color combinations are out of this world. But even better, both roses and lavender are pollinators and attract bees and other beneficial garden visitors.

 

8. A White Fence with White Roses

Whenever I see white roses, I immediately think of Alice in Wonderland and the Queen of Hearts’ poor servants toiling to paint them all red. In popular culture, white roses have long been associated with majesty and splendor. And the reason is that they’re such a sight to behold. White roses bordering a white fence look clean and pure. They’re prolific growers, especially in the spring and summer.  So, if you want to spruce up your garden with minimal effort, plant a few large rose bushes along your fence line and let them grow free.

 

 

Individual Rose Bush Ideas

9. Tall, Neatly Pruned Rose Bushes

This is one of my favorite home rose garden ideas by far. In keeping with the Wonderland theme, there is something so striking about roses grown tall and kept neatly pruned. Naturally, they’ll need to be staked or supported to maintain their shape, as they can become top-heavy when they bloom. You’ll also need to tend to them regularly to train their growth pattern, but it’s very cathartic, keeps your roses healthy, and makes room for new growth.

 

10. Dancing Queen Roses

Your options are endless when it comes to selecting roses for your garden. So many varieties, colors, and shapes are available that even simple ideas can take on new life with the right flowers. This Dancing Queen rose, for example, is a bi-colored beauty like no other. It’s perfect for a mini rose garden if you don’t have large beds to work with.

 

11. Neil Diamond Hybrid Tea Rose

This gorgeous rose looks like it’s been dipped in paint. The Neil Diamond Hybrid is a small, many-petaled rose that grows abundantly in the right environment and is beloved for its unique appearance. An eye-catching species of flower like this works well in a rose garden for a small yard – where you can spend time tailoring each of your plants to be a focal point. Laying down wood chips around your roses keeps their roots warm and will have them blooming for as long as possible.

 

12. Imperatrice Farah Hybrid Tea Rose

Another visually interesting option is the Imperatrice Farah hybrid rose, which is a smaller, bushier species. Its flowers look like they started changing color but never fully got around to it. This type of rose looks lovely in a more modern landscape but can also work well in a cottage garden. Much of its aesthetic will depend on how you prune it, bearing in mind they don’t get very big.

 

13. Rare and Unusual Roses – Blue

Disbelievers will say it’s Photoshop. However, there are some breathtaking rose varieties out there if you know where and how to find them. Exotic roses look stunning in smaller gardens and large alike. But they are delicate and require a lot of maintenance. When shopping around for rare and unusual roses for your garden, ensure you find out about their care requirements. That said, you won’t regret adding a beauty like this to your landscape.

 

 

Rose Garden Bed Ideas

14. Rose Border Garden Design

Run-of-the-mill hedges are so last year. Instead, create beautiful rose garden border beds by planting different colored roses along the edge of your lawn. Add a bench or two in between so you can enjoy some time among your flowers.

 

15. Roses Alongside Garden Decor

Roses are as good at playing supporting roles as they are at stealing the show. If you’re trying to highlight a particular feature in your garden, like an artwork or a sundial, planting rose bushes all around will only emphasize it more.  This semi-pergola sets the stage for a romantic garden nook, complete with a bench for relaxing and a stunning statue to draw in the viewer.

 

16. English Rose Garden Ideas

Steppingstones always make me think of quiet English cottages in the countryside. Lean into this look by planting mini rose bushes along your garden paths. Interspersing them with other plants and shrubs will give you a slightly unkempt and vintage appearance. Who wouldn’t want to spend time in this space?

 

17. Simple Rose Garden Beds

If you don’t have much time to spend tailoring your rose bushes, you can just plant a handful of trees in a bed and let them grow free. Different sizes and colors look breathtaking together. In this example, the homeowner has set up a space for relaxation alongside their thriving rose bed. This design is simple to execute and requires minimal effort to maintain.

 

 

Training Climbing Roses

18. A Mini Rose Arbor

Roses will happily climb and sprawl if properly trained and pruned.  Any rose enthusiast will attest to how pliable these beautiful plants can be with extra love and attention. If you have a thriving rose garden at home, consider manipulating one of your plants to form a mini rose arbor. This will require teaching it to climb along an arched structure or trellis until it forms a canopy. Here, we see some hybrid tea roses forming a perfect little seating nook for strawberries and soda in the summer.

 

19. Roses Around a Garden Light

Trying to hide a garden feature you don’t find particularly attractive? A clever designer has planted climbing roses around this lamp post in such a manner that you hardly see it. That is, until nightfall when the lamp will cast a beautiful light on this rose tree’s stunning flowers.

 

20. A Rose-Encased Stairway

Some rose species can adhere to surfaces without any assistance or the need for a trellis. Think of this rose garden design like ivy, but better. This dark green and pink rose hybrid looks incredible spread out against an old concrete staircase.  A definite must for the ultimate old-English, vintage aesthetic.

 

21. Red Climbing Roses

Jazz up a quiet corner of your home with some stunning red climbing roses. The most classic of the colors, it’s easy to see why they’re so popular, as they immediately draw your attention. Climbing roses bloom in the spring and summer, so be sure to plant them somewhere you plan to spend a lot of time. This way, you can enjoy all they have to offer. When purchasing your red roses, ensure you ask for a climbing variety that can be trained to run along your walls or fences.

 

 

Shaped Rose Garden Beds

22. Flagstone Rose Bed

Make the most of spaces that are more flagstone than garden by planting majestic roses as a focal point. These tallish rose trees, in various colors, completely steal the show, and rightly so. Roses in a relatively constrained environment (like this one) are also easier to care for, as all they need is regular watering, feeding, and maintenance.

 

23. A Rosy Walkway

This is the perfect design for those looking to go all out with their rose garden. The well-placed beds serve to create a walkway between hundreds of beautiful blooms. Great for a larger landscape, be warned that multiple rose beds are pretty high maintenance. However, they’re worth it, especially with how romantic and aesthetic this garden looks.

 

24. Cottage Rose Garden Ideas

Make the most of a small garden with bordered circular beds. In this design, large stones create an edging that is both practical and aesthetic. Roses of different colors and sizes give depth and perspective to this cottage, brightening the home’s overall appearance.

 

 

More Creative Ideas

25. Roses in Different Colors

If it’s color you’re after, roses are definitely the right choice for your garden. With so many options available, create incredible garden beds by planting a variety of colors together.  These long stem roses are bright and vibrant and can be picked at leisure to adorn the inside of your home, too.

 

26. A Front Door Arbor

A rose climbing trellis arbor is a welcoming way to lead guests right to your front door.

 

27. Corner Climbing Roses

Another excellent idea for decorating your pergola is to plant rose trees along its corners. This way, they’ll grow up along its edges (with the help of a trellis), forming a beautiful, romantic enclosure.

 

28. A Rose Tree Hideaway

An overgrown rose garden is a perfect aesthetic for this little nestled-away cottage. The trees provide privacy and create a lovely view, whether you’re inside or outside the home.

 

29. One Perfect Rose Bush

Sometimes less is more. And if you don’t have a lot of garden space to play in, there’s nothing wrong with planting and caring for one perfectly manicured rose tree. It’ll bring you blooms year after year and provides a stunning viewpoint for guests.

10 best rose gardens in the world - Russian photo

Life in pink:
Top 10 rose gardens in the world

May 11, 2017
Text: Elena Vodneva

The queen of flowers will soon bloom - we present you a selection of the most beautiful rose gardens in the world. Be sure to check out one of these rose gardens if you are nearby: here you can not only take magical shots, but also enjoy the dizzying aroma and find the rarest varieties, such as the black rose.

Mottisfont Rose Gardens, UK

Photo: Elena Ermakova

The garden was created in the 1970s by Graham Stuart Thomas, who retained the old paths, fruit trees, and boxwood hedges. In addition to 500 varieties of roses, other plants were planted, including lavender and catnip. It’s a pity that you can’t take a picture of the smell - in the evenings, in the enclosed space, a natural concert of aromas takes place. But here you can capture the largest plane tree in the UK.

R OSARY C Oloma C Astle , Belgium

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000 , would surely want to return to this world if they knew what a miracle grew in their yard. The rose garden was founded in 1995 by the Flemish Society and became the largest in Europe: more than three thousand varieties, more than 65 thousand rose bushes planted in sectors by color. The cafe at the castle sells pink ice cream.

Roseraie du Val-de-Marne, France

Photo: Olesya Bilkei

Charming Garden in Paris was laid down at the end of the 19th century and is considered the first the official rose garden of the world - no other plants, except for roses, are supposed to grow here. The collection of more than three thousand varieties is thematically divided into 13 sections, with the help of which the story of the cultivation of this flower is told. Local roses are trained to braid and climb any garden forms - arches, turrets, pergolas.

Elizabeth Park Rose Garden, USA

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America's oldest rose garden was established in Hartford, Connecomicut. This is the first thing he did in the territory of the park entrusted to him by the city. “Because people will like it,” he said, and he was absolutely right. In addition to hundreds of modern varieties of roses, old and rare varieties are carefully preserved here. Other scenic spots in the park include greenhouses, a pond, and a picnic grove.

Butchart Gardens, Canada

Photo: Joshua Haviv

After walking to their heart's content under the lush arches of the rose garden, visitors go to throw coins for happiness into the wishing well, and photographers look for the best angle of reflection in a steel garden ball installed near one of the paths. At the exit from this part of the garden, there is a bronze fountain brought from Florence with frolicking sturgeons.

Government Rose Garden, India

Photo: Svetlana Andriyanova

In the Nilgiri mountains in the south of the country, at an altitude of 2250 m, prickly beauties feel their best and bloom almost all year round. The garden is located on five curved terraces with a total area of ​​4 hectares. The minimum task is to find specimens of unusual colors among 20,000 varieties: black and green.

Europa-Rosarium, Germany

Photo: Europa-Rosarium.de

Gorodsen city are called "City of Roses"-it will be seen by these flowers so that it would be earned by visits, even if you deserve visits, even if you deserve visits. it did not have the largest historic rose garden in the world. The latter was founded in 1898 on the basis of an extensive collection of amateur grower Albert Hofmann. A quarter of the 8500 varieties can only be seen here.

Keisei Rose Garden, Japan

Photo: Tanaka Juuyoh

Rosary in the city of Sakura Tiba during the flowering period of swaying petals. The protagonist of most shots is an openwork gazebo, especially appreciated by wedding photographers. If you've come for roses, don't miss the collection of Japanese wild and rare roses, as well as the Chinese rose garden and species roses from Asian countries.

Zijing Park, China

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The rose garden in Changzhou attracts visitors not only with plantings - in May there is a festival, exhibitions of flower arrangements, contests for the best photo, themed theater performances and a selection of the top ten beautiful varieties.

Victoria State Rose Garden, Australia

Photo: dvoevnore

England's most extravagant rose garden, symbol of the Tudors, is itself shaped like a flower of the Tudors. Groups of rose bushes are planted on five petals. The track from a bird's eye view looks like a stem. The "leaf" was formed in honor of the centenary of the Federation from Australian varieties, and the "bud" consists of English roses.

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Heligan Lost Gardens, UK

One of England's oldest botanical gardens, it is also one of the most unusual. Here, among rhododendrons and camellias, huge ferns and ancient trees, you can suddenly find a giant statue of a girl made of moss, a head sticking out of the ground with hair made of grass and flowers, a huge boot overgrown with ferns and many other strange sculptures. And there is also the only pineapple pit in Europe - surprisingly, pineapples grow in the north of Europe!

Kawachi Fuji Garden, Japan

This park is an ode to wisteria: Centuries-old trees with multi-colored hanging garlands of white, pink and lilac flowers stretch for many kilometers, creating labyrinths and corridors. By the way, the paths in the park are named after the colors. You can find yourself near a wall of purple wisteria clusters or in a cloud of white ones. The most beautiful place in Kawachi Fuji is the Wisteria Tunnel. By the way, wisteria is a symbol of Japan, and in Japanese it is called "Fuji", like the famous Japanese mountain.

Keukenhof Royal Park, The Netherlands

The most famous tulip park in the world. They spread out as an almost endless carpet: almost 5 million tulips of more than a hundred different varieties bloom annually on an area of ​​32 hectares. However, in addition to this type of flowers, roses, orchids, daffodils, lilacs, hyacinths, crocuses still grow here - this is generally the largest flower garden in the world. The park is usually open in spring, from March 20 to May 20, but this year, due to the coronavirus, the rivers of tulips and daffodil islands can only be admired online.

Miracle Garden, Dubai

A giant floral oasis nestled in the middle of a sweltering desert. And from October to May, more than 45 million flowers of various kinds bloom in it. Flowers here are planted not only in flowerbeds, but they also cover houses, arches, figures of cartoon characters. The brightest exhibits are a mini-copy of the Chinese Wall made of roses, orchids and azaleas and a flower clock, which are included in the Guinness Book of Records.

Villa Carlotta, Italy

Romantic villa Carlotta, located on the shores of Lake Como, is surrounded by a huge botanical garden.

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