Designing and maintaining a rose garden

The rose is one of the most widely cultivated flowers in the world. It is extremely diverse, rich in symbolism, and has been used in a wide variety of ways, from being grown in rose gardens, in rows for perfumers, as a medicinal plant, in English gardens and more recently in the rose garden so dear to the rose gardener and landscape gardener André Eve.

Photo aérienne du jardin de l'abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue

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  • 1 day

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Objectives - Target skills

  • Understanding the main principles of a roseraie and a rose garden
  • Designing and creating a rose garden
  • Bringing a rose garden to life and maintaining it

Detailed programme

INTRODUCTION: The history of roses and how they are used.

ROSERAIE OR ROSE GARDEN? TWO APPROACHES TO THE ROSE

  • Roseraies, from structured spaces to landscaped parks
  • The rose garden, specific principles (paths, collections, varieties, etc.)
  • The notion of a "plant palette": types of rose, combining perennials, bulbs, etc. and creating beds

DESIGNING A ROSE GARDEN

  • Drawing, planning the work (earthworks, lawn, planting, etc.), cost

MANAGEMENT PLAN : an organisational tool for garden maintenance

  • Objectives and benefits of a management plan
  • Stages in the process
  • Fertilisation
  • Managing water resources
  • Disease control

ANIMATING THE GARDEN

  • Mediation in a rose garden, a source of tourist attraction

Methods & Procedures

TEACHING METHODS AND TOOLS

  • Case studies
  • Tool sheets :
    • Pruning in rose gardens
    • Creating a rose variety
  • Exercise: Sketching a layout according to the principles of a rose garden or creating a plant palette in a bed.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

  • Knowledge multiple-choice questions

Speaker

Portrait de Richard Desplats

Richard DESPLATS

Gardener-technician in charge of the rose garden at Beaulieu-en-Rouergue Abbey, Centre for National Monuments

"Previously in charge of a technical department and green space services for local authorities, it is with a passion for gardens and the world of plants that I now work.I'm currently involved in the creation of a rose garden and the management of the landscaped grounds of the Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue (Occitanie). I'm firmly convinced that gardens are the fabric of monuments and the perfect companions for art collections. "