Discovering Rose Gardens

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May is traditionally acknowledged as the month of the roses, although, thanks to modern varieties, most of those beautiful flowers go on blooming until autumn and even further, intermittently or without any interruption, according to the different cultivars and their location (many roses which keep on blooming in the UK, for instance, stop doing so momentarily during the hot Italian summers). In any case, the last very rainy month of May prevented us from admiring blooms in the gardens, nurseries and rose gardens, but here’s a chance to make up for it…

What follows is the list of the most important rose gardens open to the public (some by reservation only) in Italy. If there’s any missing, do please let me know.

Emilia-Romagna:

Museo Giardino della Rosa Antica

Roseto “La Rosa nel Tempo”

Friuli-Venezia Giulia:

Castello delle Rose di Cordovado

Roseto di San Giovanni, Trieste

Lazio:

Roseto comunale dell’Aventino

Roseto Vacunae Rosae

Palazzo Patrizi

Giardini della Landriana

Giardino di Ninfa