Rose Festival
The Rose Festival celebrates the beauty and diversity of this favourite flower from Saturday 16 June until Sunday 22 July 2018
Rosemoor’s five-week-long Rose Festival offers a breath-taking showcase of colours and scents of the nation’s favourite flower.
Boasting one of the UK’s largest collections of roses, RHS Garden Rosemoor is home to two dedicated rose gardens, bringing together more than 2,000 roses across more than 200 different varieties and a wealth of hues and perfumes. From cottage garden climbers, to bright and beautiful container varieties, there will be a rose to inspire and suit all gardens.
As well as the stunning gardens, visitors can enjoy guided tours, expert advice from RHS horticulturists, a floral themed craft market, a rose trail, and much, much more.
The Queen Mother’s Rose Garden in Summer at RHS Garden Rosemoor.
Every year, some eight billion roses are grown and sold in the UK – it’s the nation’s favourite flower.
As such, the start, this Saturday, of the five-week Rose Festival at RHS Garden Rosemoor in Devon (which runs until July 22) is most welcome; the collection there is the largest in the country and includes 2,000 roses across 200 varieties, hues and scents.
To celebrate the start of the festival, we’ve collected some superb pictures of previous year – to entice you along if you can, and to give you a flavour of what you’re missing if you can’t make it.
There will be tours, expert advice and a floral-themed craft market; new this year is a planting of Rosa pax, a hybrid musk rose launched in 1918 to commemorate the end of the First World War.
For more details visit www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/rosemoor
Red Rosa ‘Dortmund’, Rosa ‘Comtesse de Murinais’, Rosa ‘Open Arm’ in the Rose Garden at RHS Rosemoor Devon
The Shrub Rose Garden in June, RHS Rosemoor
The Shrub Rose Garden at RHS Rosemoor
Cottage Garden at RHS Rosemoor
Rosa ‘Erfurt’ pink roses in the Shrub Rose Garden at RHS Rosemoor
The Shrub Rose Garden at RHS Rosemoor in June
Another view of the Shrub Rose Garden in June, RHS Rosemoor
The thatched-roof summerhouse in the Cottage Gardenat RHS Rosemoor
