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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Giles on June 24, 2016, 03:36:28 PM

Title: Royal National Rose Society/The Garden of the Rose, St Albans, Herts.
Post by: Giles on June 24, 2016, 03:36:28 PM

Just some photos to give you an idea...

Title: Re: Royal National Rose Society/The Garden of the Rose, St Albans, Herts.
Post by: Giles on June 24, 2016, 03:38:00 PM

About 5 acres in total.

Title: Re: Royal National Rose Society/The Garden of the Rose, St Albans, Herts.
Post by: Giles on June 24, 2016, 03:41:31 PM

5 minutes from Jn 21a of M25.
Tea and cake.
Hot Chocolate
Benjamin Britten
Dortmund
Fuzz of rosebuds in foreground

Title: Re: Royal National Rose Society/The Garden of the Rose, St Albans, Herts.
Post by: Maggi Young on June 24, 2016, 03:54:14 PM

Roses make such a summery scene and the scent must be lovely.

Title: Re: Royal National Rose Society/The Garden of the Rose, St Albans, Herts.
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 25, 2016, 01:19:18 AM

It looks like a lovely place Giles. Is there much else planted there?

Title: Re: Royal National Rose Society/The Garden of the Rose, St Albans, Herts.
Post by: Giles on June 25, 2016, 07:39:26 AM

Lesley,
There's a fair amount of mixed herbaceous planting and there are a number of clematis planted with the climbers.
The design is very nice too.