The WFRS granted the Award of Garden Excellence in 2009. Morwell Centenary Rose Garden in Morwell, Victoria, with over 4000 rose plants on an area of 4 acres (1.6 ha) and a focus on rose breeders from Australia and New Zealand, both historical and modern.Alister Clark Memorial Rose Garden, a rose garden in Bulla, Victoria, home town of the rosarian Alister Clark, containing all his surviving cultivars.The garden, which started life as a commercial fruit orchard, began supplying the cut flower trade and by the mid 1970s it focused entirely on supplying roses as both cut flowers and garden plants. Ruston's Roses in Renmark, South Australia houses the National Rose Collection of Australia (since 2005) and displays more than 4,000 modern and old garden varieties.Another surviving old public rose gardens is Jules Gravereaux's Roseraie du Val-de-Marne south of Paris in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, which was laid out in 1899 and remains the biggest rose garden in France.ġ905 Dickie bandstand in Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden, Bacchus Marsch, Victoria īritish designers of rose gardens include Thomas Mawson who created examples at Graythwaite Hall (his first major garden project in 1886) and other sites including Bushey (1913). As long ago as 1840 a collection numbering over one thousand different cultivars, varieties and species was possible when a rosarium was planted by Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum in England. A major contributor in the early 19th century was Empress Josephine of France who patronized the development of rose breeding at her gardens at Malmaison. An enormous range of roses has been bred since then. This was encouraged by the introduction of new species, and especially by the introduction of the China rose into Europe in the 19th century. The significant breeding of modern times started slowly in Europe from about the 17th century. However, there were large numbers of selected varieties being grown from early times for instance numerous selections or cultivars of the China rose were in cultivation in China in the first millennium AD. Most of the plants grown in these early gardens are likely to have been species collected from the wild. Many of the original plant breeders used roses as a starting material as it is a quick way to obtain results. Records exist of them being grown in Chinese gardens and Greek gardens from at least 500 BC. Paintings of roses have been discovered in Egyptian pyramid tombs from the 14th century BC. They are known to have been grown in ancient Babylon. It is believed that roses were grown in many of the early civilisations in temperate latitudes from at least 5000 years ago. Of the over 150 species of rose, the Chinese rosa chinensis has contributed most to today's garden roses it has been bred into garden varieties for about 1,000 years in China, and over 200 in Europe. Jules Gravereaux in Roseraie du Val-de-Marne, 1900
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