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.

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  • 1 day

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  • Landscape maintenance manager, landscape gardener
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    Owners, directors and managers of public and private heritage sites, parks and gardens managers
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  • Face-to-face training

  • Interest in natural and plant heritage

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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

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. "