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Roscoff – The Exotic Garden of Roscoff. The exotic garden of the town of Roscoff was created beginning in 1986, around a massive rock eighteen meters high. It is dedicated to subtropical and exotic plants, and contains over three thousand different plants from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia, including many rare and endangered plants.
Helleborus niger, commonly called Christmas rose or black hellebore, is an evergreen perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. It is one of about 20 species from the genus Hellebore. It is a poisonous cottage garden favourite because it flowers in the depths of winter.
Rosa × alba, the white rose of York, is a hybrid rose of unknown parentage [1] that has been cultivated in Europe since ancient times. [2] It may have originally been grown mainly for the sweet scent of the flowers, but is now also used as a winter-hardy garden shrub. [2] Cultivated forms have white or pink flowers, and most have many petals.
A false origin of the style suggests that it originates from the Llangollen Canal in the early 20th century, where a lengthsman grew an abundance of roses and had a picturesque view of Chirk Castle from his garden. In reality, the movement had been well established since 1858. [3] A number of theories to the origin of the design exist.
Of the over 150 species of rose, the Chinese Rosa chinensis has contributed most to today's garden roses; it has been bred into garden varieties for about 1,000 years in China, and over 200 in Europe. [16] Among the old Chinese garden roses, the Old Blush group is the most primitive, while newer groups are the most diverse. [17]
The Royal Rosarian Garden contains many roses that are no longer commercially available. Established in 1975, the Miniature Rose Garden is a test ground to help determine what miniature roses will go to market. [2] The Miniature Rose Garden is one of only eight such miniature rose testing grounds for the American Rose Society. [10]
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Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, at and by Albertus Jonas Brandt and Eelke Jelles Eelkema Portrait of Pope Julius II , by Raphael Ploughing in the Nivernais , by Rosa Bonheur