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The Rose Garden at Greenbank Farm

The design for this garden comprises four color zones—white, pink, red, and yellow. Herbs and lavender interspersed with violas, a knot garden in the center, pathways, and arbors complete the plan. The knot garden includes an obelisk with a climbing rose; two beds of lavender; and interwoven bands of thyme, santolina, and germander.

Along one edge of the garden is a rose hedge planted with a pink shrub rose that blooms non-stop and needs little maintenance beyond feeding and watering. This hedge solved a safety issue caused by a sharp drop from the sidewalk along the adjacent Cottage Garden.

Garden Tips

Use a variety of roses to show the diversity of the plant.

Use color themes to organize the beds.

Rose Garden Plantings
Cultivar
Hybridizer/Date
Description

White Zone Roses
Gourmet Popcorn
Home and Family
Mme. Hardy
Sally Holmes
Whisper


Desemero/1986
Carruth/2002
Hardy/1932
Holmes/1976
Dickson/2003

Miniature, tall
Hybrid tea, new
Damask, very fragrant
Single-type shrub, showy
Hybrid tea, new
Pink Zone Roses
Brother Cadfael
R. Gallica Versicolor
Moje Hammarberg
Perfume Delight
Pompon Blanc Parfait

Austin/1994
Unknown/1581
Hammarberg/1931
Swim&Weeks/1973
Verdier/1876

Shrub, light pink
Pink blend, striped Gallica
Mauve hybrid rugosa
Hybrid tea, medium pink
Light pink Alba
Rose Hedge
Carefree Wonder

Meilland/1990

Shrub, pink blend
Red Zone Roses
Betty Boop
Double Delight
Ferdinand Pichard
Fragrant Cloud
Red Masterpiece
R. Rubrifolia Glauca

Carruth/1999
Swim & Ellis/1977
Tanne/1921
Tantau/1964
Warriner/1974
Unknown/1789

Red blend, floribunda
Red blend, hybrid tea
Red blend, hybrid perpetual
Orange red, hybrid tea
Dark red, hybrid tea
Medium pink, species

Yellow Zone Roses
Gold Medal
Graham Thomas
Mutabilis
   (R. chinensis mutabilis)
Peace
Sunsprinkles
Sunsprite    

Christensen/1982
Austin/1983
Tipo Ideala/1894

Meilland/1945
Walden/1999
Kordes/1977

Medium yellow, grandiflora
Dark Yello, shrub
Yellow blend, China

Yellow Blend, Hybrid tea
Dark yellow, miniature
Yellow, floribunda
Climbing/Pillar Roses
Altissimo

Autumn Sunset
Climbing Iceberg

Delbard-Chaubert/
1966
Lowe/1988
Cant/1968

Medium red; large-flowered
climber
Yellow blend; climbing shrub
White; climbing floribunda
Center Knot Garden
Mlle Cecile Brunner

Ardaugh/1894/1904

Light pink; climbing polyantha
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