The International Rose Test Garden is a rose garden in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon, United States. There are over 10,000 rose bushes of approximately 650 varieties. The roses bloom from April through October with the peak coming in June, depending on the weather. New rose cultivars are continually sent to the garden from many parts of the world and are evaluated on several characteristics, including disease resistance, bloom formation, color, and fragrance. It is the oldest continuously operating public rose test garden in the United States and exemplifies Portland's nickname, "City of Roses". The garden draws an estimated 700,000 visitors annually.
Sangerhausen is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, capital of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz. It is situated southeast of the Harz, approx. 35 kilometres east of Nordhausen, and 50 km (31 mi) west of Halle (Saale). About 31,000 people live in Sangerhausen.
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Jules Léopold Gravereaux was a French rosarian. He was a top executive at the department store Le Bon Marché and in 1892 purchased land at the village of L'Haÿ about 8 km south of Paris. There, he built the first ever complete garden devoted exclusively to roses, the Roseraie de L'Haÿ. It became so popular that a few years later the village changed its name to L'Haÿ-les-Roses.
Roseraie du Val-de-Marne or Roseraie de L'Haÿ is a notable rose garden in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Val-de-Marne, France.
A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses or rose species. Designs vary tremendously and roses may be displayed alongside other plants or grouped by individual variety, colour or class in rose beds.
Hermann Kiese (1865–1923) was a German rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars. Born in Vieselbach, Thuringia, Germany on May 8, 1865. He worked for 22 years as gardener for the Johann Christoff Schmidt rosarium in Erfurt. In 1904 he started his own nursery in Vieselbach near Erfurt. Hermann Kiese is one of the founders of the Verein Deutscher Rosenfreunde – VDR. From 1911 to 1916 he was chief editor of the magazine Rosen-Zeitung. Consequently, he shared this responsibility with Friedrich Ries till 1919.
Countess Henrieta Hermína Rudolfína Ferdinanda Marie Antonie Anna Chotková of Chotkov and Vojnín – - (1863–1946), also known as the countess of roses was a grower of roses, who established the rosarium of Dolná Krupá (Slovakia),
Rudolf Geschwind was a German Austrian rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars.
Peter Lambert was a German rose breeder from Trier.
Jean Pierre Vibert was a French rosarian.
Anne Marie Lucie Hedwige de Diesbach-Belleroche was a French rosarian.
The Rosarium Uetersen is a rose garden located in the Rosenstadt Uetersen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and is the oldest and largest rose garden in Northern Germany.
Emily, Lady Peel was the daughter of George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale and of Lady Susan Montagu. One of ten siblings, she was born in Yester, East Lothian, Scotland and baptised there on 28 February 1837.
Jean-Marie Gonod (1827–1888) was a French rosarian.
The Garden Dreams Project is a conservation and tourism network concerned with rediscovering the cultural heritage of gardens in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Historical parks which had been, to an extent, forgotten are opened up to a wide audience. The beginnings of the project date back to 1999. Forty parks of varying character across the state of Saxony-Anhalt belong to the network. These include the Elbaue Park in Magdeburg, the former "Accommodation of Romanticism" Reichardt's Garden in Halle (Saale), the Europa Rosarium in Sangerhausen, the maze in Altjeßnitz and the Castle and Park at Dieskau. Since the beginning of 2006, the "garden dreams" have been marketed using their own logo.
Rosa 'Wife of Bath', also known as 'Rosarium Glücksburg', 'Glücksburg', AUSwife or 'AUSbath', is a common pink rose cultivar developed by David C.H. Austin in England in 1969. It was one of his early cultivars and is named after a character from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. 'Roarium Glücksburg' is a rose garden in the park of Schloss Glücksburg in Glücksburg, Germany.
A rose show is a horticultural exhibition focusing exclusively on roses.
