3. Zakir Hussain Rose Garden (Chandigarh)

         A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Most often it is a section of a larger garden. Designs vary tremendously and roses may be displayed alongside other plants or grouped by individual variety, colour or class in rose beds. Technically it is a specialized type of shrub garden, but normally treated as a type of flower garden, if only because its origins in Europe go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when roses were effectively the largest and most popular flowers, already existing in numerous garden cultivars.

Overview

Of the over a hundred and fifty species of rose, the Chinese rosa chinensis has contributed maximum to today`s lawn roses; it's been bred into lawn types for approximately 1,000 years in China, and over 2 hundred in Europe.[1] It is assumed that roses had been grown in among the early civilisations in temperate latitudes from as a minimum 5000 years in the past. They are regarded to had been grown in historical Babylon.[2] Paintings of roses had been determined in Egyptian pyramid tombs from the 14th century BC.[3] Records exist of them being grown in Chinese gardens and Greek gardens from as a minimum 500 BC.[4][5] Many of the unique plant breeders used roses as a beginning cloth as it's far a brief manner to reap results.

Most of the plant life grown in those early gardens are probable to had been species accrued from the wild. However, there had been massive numbers of decided on types being grown from early instances; as an instance severa picks or cultivars of the China rose had been in cultivation in China withinside the first millennium AD.

The giant breeding of current instances commenced slowly in Europe from approximately the seventeenth century. This become recommended with the aid of using the advent of recent species, and specially with the aid of using the advent of the China rose into Europe withinside the nineteenth century. An extensive variety of roses has been bred seeing that then. A main contributor withinside the early nineteenth century become Empress Josephine of France who patronized the improvement of rose breeding at her gardens at Malmaison. As lengthy in the past as 1840 a group numbering over a thousand special cultivars, types and species become feasible while a rosarium become planted with the aid of using Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian lawn cemetery and arboretum in England.

British designers of rose gardens encompass Thomas Mawson who created examples at Graythwaite Hall (his first main lawn task in 1886) and different webweb sites inclusive of Bushey (1913). Another surviving vintage public rose gardens is Jules Gravereaux's Roseraie du Val-de-Marne south of Paris in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, which become specified in 1899 and stays the most important rose lawn in France.

Address: Jan Marg, 16B, Sector 16, Chandigarh, 160015

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