The Gardens of the American Rose Center
The American Rose Center is a rose garden in Shreveport, Louisiana owned and operated by The American Rose Society. There are over 20,000 rose bushes of 100 varieties in 65 separate rose gardens on 118 acres of pine forests and woodlands.
The Gardens of the American Rose Center
Image: Klima and Watkins Pool at night
Image: Shreveport September 2015 007 (Gardens of the American Rose Center)
Image: Shreveport September 2015 009 (Gardens of the American Rose Center)
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, and sometimes rose species. Designs vary tremendously and roses may be displayed alongside other plants or grouped by individual variety, colour or class in rose beds. Technically it is a specialized type of shrub garden, but normally treated as a type of flower garden, if only because its origins in Europe go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when roses were effectively the largest and most popular flowers, already existing in numerous garden cultivars.
Aramaki rose park, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Emilia in the rosegarden, Anjou, ~1460
Jules Gravereaux in Roseraie du Val-de-Marne, 1900
Ruston's Roses in South Australia