Hi all, I've been a long time lurker and occasional poster here on this forum. I'd like to share some pictures of some rose gardens in Japan that I visited this summer. The first few are from a garden located near Kyoto called Hieizan Garden Museum. Modeled after Monet's garden, there is a large European style walled garden with many older roses as well. The rest of the photos are from Kyoto Botanical Garden. There weren't many OGRs there, but it was still beautiful. I wonder how they do it in a land where Japanese rose beetles, Rosa multiflora, and I presume RRD are all native. Very few of the roses had tags, and those that did were mostly in Japanese. Enjoy!

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{{gwi:217302}} View from the entrance of the walled garden.

{{gwi:217304}} Spanish Beauty

{{gwi:217306}} Spanish Beauty entire plant

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{{gwi:217308}} I believe this is Tuscany Superb

{{gwi:217310}} Honeysuckle and roses together


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{{gwi:217315}} Alba Semi-Plena This plant makes me wish that I lived somewere Albas could grow.

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{{gwi:217321}} Campanulata perscifolia

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Kyoto Botanical Garden; my camera was alost out of batteries by this point, so I don't have any closeups. I believe many of these roses are the product of Japanese rose breeders.

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