This summer visitors to Cliveden in Buckinghamshire will be able to enjoy a newly restored intimate garden planted with 42 different rose varieties whose colours mirror the rising and setting of the sun.
Designed by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, one of the 20th century’s greatest garden designers, in 1959, this new garden sits within 74 acres of formal gardens now cared for by the National Trust.
The reinstated garden has been carefully nurtured by Cliveden Head Gardener Andrew Mudge and his team of 12 gardeners and over 20 volunteers. They have created the circular garden, planted with over 900 repeat flowering roses, over the past six months.
Andrew said: "We spent a year researching and designing the new garden. Our aim was to capture Jellicoe’s concept for the garden as a vegetable form, like a cabbage, with each bed intended to envelop the visitor and draw them in towards the centre.
"We’re creating this effect by using roses of different heights. Tall roses almost five foot high will enclose beds planted with shorter varieties so as you walk into the garden the roses will appear to close around you."
The roses are expected to bloom from mid-June through to September.
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