The rose labels displayed near each rose contain three pieces of important information: cultivar name, horticultural class and date of introduction or when the cultivar was first sold. We enjoyed reading the labels and were quite entertained by the rose names. If you are ever in the area, you must make a trip to The…
Huntington Rose Garden
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Roses Part III
The Huntington’s Rose Garden includes important parent roses, roses from prominent hybridizers, and rose cultivars from around the world that grow exceedingly well in Southern California. The garden has been redesigned many times over the years with major plantings in 1922, 1945, 1973, 1982 and 1988. First bloom starts about April 15th and continues until…
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Roses Part II
The Huntington Rose Garden is a rose lover’s delight. Beds upon beds filled with shrub roses, climbing and rambling roses, Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, Polyanthas, miniatures, and David Austin roses. More roses to come in the next installment for your viewing pleasure. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell…
Photography Monday: The Huntington’s Roses
The Huntington’s three and half acre rose garden was first planted in 1908 by William Hertich. In the 1970’s, it was reorganized as a collection garden with more than 4,000 individual plants arranged historically to trace the development of roses from ancient to modern times. We have just started the tour of the Huntington Rose Garden seen…