The Rose Garden at Mottisfont Abbey contains over 300 varieties of roses. It was laid out to conserve old and rare varieties of roses and the collection has been registered as the National Collection of Old-fashioned Roses. Clipped box hedges flank the borders which are filled with colour.
A gravel path winds between colourful borders including roses, nepeta (cat mint), peonies, foxgloves, irises and philadelphus (mock orange). An ironwork seat nestles amongst clipped yews at Mottisfont.
View of the borders in the Rose Garden at Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire. The Rose Garden was laid out in the 1970s in the abbey's walled kitchen garden. It is used to conserve 19th-century French roses and other old varieties.
