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Roseto di San Giovanni - Trieste
Photo courtesy of Johno
Rose (public) Garden
Listing last updated on Thu Dec 2024
Trieste, Friuli - Venezia Giulia
Italy
[From World Rose News, February 2010, pp. 46-48:] The New Rose Garden in Trieste, Italy, is located at the former Mental Asylum in the district of San Giovanni, near the university. The Asylum was constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century and now houses, amongst others, some of the university’s institutes and faculties and the provincial Health Department. The edifice is surrounded by a twenty hectare park, found to be in a state of complete neglect seven years ago. In 2004 an initiative to plant some 250 rose varieties dating from the Liberty or Art Nouveau period (1888-1925) was undertaken, and intended as an expression of homage towards the era of the construction of the building, designed by the architect Braidotti in the neo-classical style and much influenced by the Liberty movement.....
The New Rose Garden covers approximately two and a half hectares, the ground sloping up northwards. The upper part of the garden contains modern roses – the collection of Liberty roses and repeatblooming shrubs, 50 climbers and some 100 Romantic or Nostalgic varieties from breeders including Kordes, Tantau, Barni, Delbard as well as, of course, Austin’s English Roses. The big terrace garden, around 7000 square metres, will contain more than 1100 different Hybrid Teas, planted in chronological order from the very first of this class to the newest on the market, thus giving visitors the opportunity to experience the extraordinary richness and variety of this group. Here too are situated the Floribunda and Polyantha collections. In the lower portion, near the south entrance and behind the old Villa Bottacin, where there are the most beautiful trees, Old and Wild roses were planted in 2006 and 2007 in formal beds, with some 600 cultivars including nearly 50 Galllicas and more than 100 Hybrid Perpetuals.
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