Rose month at Hidcote

What’s on this Rose Month?

Join the Hidcote in celebrating roses throughout June. Visitors to the gardens can admire the beautiful roses in bloom and find out about the history of our top 10 roses, as selected by the Garden Team.

Our volunteers Garden Guides will be on hand to answer your questions about the garden and Hidcote's roses at our information point in the Courtyard. With visitors able to pick up informaton on our top 10 roses and where you can find them in the garden. At Visitor Reception and on social media we will be focusing our Plant of The Week throughout the month on roses and their companions. While on social media, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, you will find helpful tips and jobs for caring for your roses at home.

The Plant Centre at Hidcote will have a small range of David Austin roses and rose companion plants for visitors to pursue and perchase on their visit. 

Follow us on social media to keep up to date with the Rose Month features, and read on for a virtual rose hunt around Hidcote's garden and see some of the highlights.

                                                                                                                                                                        
Going on a virtual rose hunt at Hidcote

The Fuchsia Garden

When it was first designed, the area now known as the Fuchsia Garden was planted with annuals, however by 1915 Johnston had planted a permanent display of roses, recorded on one of Avary Tipping’s visits, when he described it as a rose garden, presenting “a show of exquisite roses in exquisite condition” including the pink Rosa ‘Gruss an Aachen’. Close by, Johnston also planted roses around the Green Room, now enclosed by hedges, training roses across ropes and trellising.  

The Pillars

The Pillar Garden was created in the third phase of the garden's development in 1923 with the help of Lawrence Johnston’s newly appointed and only professional gardener, Frank Adams.

Roses were used extensively throughout the Pillar Garden, combined with plantings of peonies, salvias, penstemons and philadelphus.

Long Borders

Spotlight on roses - a quick summary of our favourites at Hidcote

Rosa ‘Versicolor’ in The Long Borders

Gallicas are the oldest of garden roses and their influence is present, at least in some small degree, in nearly all our garden roses of today.

A Shrub rose, with an intense scent packed with 200 colourful petals. Rosa ‘Versicolor’ is apparently also the rose depicted in the painting 'The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child' by Sandro Botticelli in 1485.

Rosa ‘Buff Beauty’ in The Old Garden

'Buff Beauty' is a well-balanced, arching shrub rose with a rounded habit. The rose blooms repeatedly throughout the summer and into autumn producing large clusters of double, cupped flowers of buff yellow to apricot which pale to primrose.

This rose is a vigorous grower which will thrive on most well drained soils. It has good disease resistance and is very versatile, it can be grown in beds and borders, as a hedge, up a pergola or against a wall or trellis.

Rosa 'Paul's Himalayan Musk' in the Maple Garden

This rambling rose is sweetly scented, best to grow through a tree and extremely rampant. Imagine looking up in the Maple Garden to see the rose growing through the trees. It's good in both sun and shade, flowers in June/July and is not repeat flowering. Its wild origins are uncertain but are suspected to lie in the Western Himalayas.

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