Reimagine the Rose Garden
Long, formal rows of perfectly spaced bushes are not the only way to incorporate roses into your own landscape. Planted among other perennials or even evergreens, or bunched together in no specific pattern, roses are able to look perfect even in lawns that lack a committed “rose garden” space. Mixing roses into your own landscape, in one color or some, is simple with the ideas below as inspiration.
Zeterre Landscape Architecture
The expression of a country cottage is charming. The accompanying English gardens often use roses in groupings that are much less organized and staid that what we think about as a conventional rose garden.
Summerset Gardens/Joe Weuste
A less formal — and much less labor-intensive — way of rose gardening is to combine them with your favorite perennials. A mix guarantees a bevy of blooms all year long.
Lenkin Design Inc: Garden and Landscape Design
The coordinated boxwoods of a parterre garden create an elegant appearance. A smattering of blossoms often accompanies those boxwoods. Formal and beautiful, these Heather Lenkin roses are an ideal choice.
Lenkin Design Inc: Garden and Landscape Design
The long-stemmed Heather Lenkin rose used in this garden was developed by Tom Carruth for his wife. It includes 30 or more petals for a huge mind and comes in a variety of shades.
Lenkin Design Inc: Garden and Landscape Design
This formal parterre garden, complete with six varieties of rose, is the best complement to the Italian revival structure of the home it occupies.
Deborah Cerbone Associates, Inc..
The softness of a climbing rose entwines on a pergola as a portion of the landscape.
Margie Grace – Grace Design Associates
A variety of materials may be used as a boundary for a garden. Brick, tile, slate, gravel or even a tailored row of evergreen bushes provides another dimension to any rose garden.
Lenkin Design Inc: Landscape and Garden Design
The circular design of the rose garden provides a refreshing spin on the conventional rectangular and square shapes we often see. Sitting among the towering Italian cypress, the lower-height roses add visual interest and depth.
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