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Rose Garden:
Throughout Brookside Gardens' history, the Rose Garden has been the most popular destination for our visitors. This garden has experienced subtle changes over 40 years. In fact the large Alberta Spruce (Picea glauca 'Conica'), located at the center of the garden, and many of the wisteria vines on the arbor are among the few remaining plantings from the Rose Garden's original design. During the early 1990s, low maintenance, disease-resistant roses replaced the hybrid tea roses, in an effort to reduce the maintenance required by the more disease-prone hybrid teas. However, after great public outcry, the longer blooming, showier hybrid teas were returned.
Dale Armstrong, the M-NCPPC Landscape Architect responsible for the Rose Garden's design remembers, "The design objective was to introduce the general public to a variety of rose species in a pleasant garden with a shaded pergola and fountains for sound, water movement, and cooling effect. Also, Hans [Hanses, M-NCPPC Landscape Architect who designed all of the earliest garden areas] wanted not just roses, but also conifers, so the Rose Garden would have planted in the Rose Garden; in addition, a variety of perennials are included to add multi-season interest. |