As empress Joséphine de Beauharnais bought Malmaison, France ,she set up the first documented rose garden (rosarium) in years between 1799-1814.Her wish was to collect all known roses of the time,at the time of her death there were 250 different roses, unfortunately not catalogued properly.Roses were collected from all over the world, at the time of blockade due to war between England and France the ships with roses for her rosarium were allowed to pass.Illustrator P.J.Redouté was named official artist of Josephine and his botanical illustrations of Malmaisons roses are still admired.
Today ose gardens are public gardens in many cities ,are sections of botanical gardens or represent love for roses of many private collectors.Roses may be arranged according to botanical clues,they may be sorted by their colors or geographical origin.New cultivars of roses appear each year and many rose lovers do name rose the most beautiful flower ever.
Some of the most known rose gardens (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosarium ):
- Ruston’s Roses in Renmark, South Australia
- Coloma Castle, six miles (10 km) south of Brussels
- Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario
- Gerlev Rosenpark near Frederikssund
- Roseraie du Val-de-Marne, L’Haÿ-les-Roses
- Parc de Bagatelle, in Paris
- Parc de la Tête d’Or in Lyon
- Europa-Rosarium in Sangerhausen, Germany
- Rosarium Uetersen in Uetersen, Germany
- Westfalenpark in Dortmund
- Fineschi Garden, in the Cavriglia municipality of Tuscany
- Westbroekpark is a public park in in The Hague
- Parc de la Grange in Geneva
- Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire
- Royal National Rose Society Gardens
- Queen Mary Gardens in Regent’s Park
- The Gardens of the American Rose Center in Shreveport, Louisiana
- The Huntington Library in San Marino, California
- International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon
- Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden in New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
Some Roses, de Pierre-Joseph Redouté: (from:http://www.wittert.ulg.ac.be/fr/flori/opera/redoute/redoute_roses.html ):
Rosa Muscosa – Rosier Mousseux
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Rosier de Candolle Variété
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Rosa Centifolia Bullata – Rosier à feuilles de Laitue
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I love the botanical prints. So pretty but still biologically accurate which just makes them more pretty.
Me too, I just love botanical prints-specially the old ones
All Rose gardens are wonderful! This world needs more of them! – and more blogs about plants too!
I always admired Redoute’s work, too bad that today many artists don’t afford to do such detailed
drawings/paintings.
I try too see the world as a rose garden-and it really looks like one, sometimes at least……;)
Of course the drawings don’t show the Japanese beetles eating my roses! (they are beautiful, too, in their own, but evil). Thanks for checking out my blog, looking forward to seeing more of yours.
Oh Romeo, give me thy roses!
I can’t help myself, love roses
Did you witness my stem of red rose penning “Have a great day” at http://soundeagle.wordpress.com?
And I like it-it is always so nice hearing nice words!
Thank you! I am glad that you like the penning red rose and nice words.
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http://soundeagle.wordpress.com/manuscript/
Thank you for this learned Post. Its a pleasure to read it. I hope to come back to your blog and read some more.. cheers
Welcome to come back as soon as possible!
I especially love Redoute prints!
Botanical prints are always used for plant guide books because they can be drawn in such a way as to perfectly depict all details of a plant, leaves, petals, etc. for identifying – that’s why they’re always so perfect!
You are absolutely right-yet it is still interesting to see how good illustrators manage to put a piece of their personality in their work!