The Rose Garden, The Savill Garden

The new rose garden at the Savill Garden was opened by Her Majesty The Queen in June 2010. This progressive design mass plants roses selected primarily for their perfume, colour intensity and repeat flowering capabilities to produce a new focus for the summer gardens at Savill. The concept is “intense” with colour grading from the white and ivory cream of Rosa Sally Holmes and R Glamis Castle to the deep blackcurrant reds of R Munstead Wood, R Shakespeare and R Burgundy Ice. Perfume fills the air and pathways take a route around the edge of the vortex like design to create changing views of the garden as a whole.

One route takes the visitor down into the centre of the garden but a second route in the form of a ramped promontory allows the visitor to slowly rise above the garden. A 5m cantilevered grille floats out above the central, most intensely coloured and perfumed roses coming to a point at which only one individual at a time can experience the fragrance rising on the warm air.

Over 2500 roses have been planted within the garden but only 28 cultivars have been used. Ribbed mounds spin off towards the woodland, planted with the transparent wands of Molinia ‘Heidebraut’

This garden has been featured in The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has just won a BALI award