Diana, Princess of Wales Rose Bloom - St Kilda Botanical Gardens, St Kilda
The St Kilda Botanical Gardens are a very beautiful place to visit, not least for all for their wonderful array of roses found in the Alister Clarke Rose Garden.
"Diana, Princess of Wales" is a particularly beautiful rose, a fitting rose in keeping with its namesake. The rose was bred by the American rose breeder Keith Zary and released in 1998. Known in some countries as "Diana" and "Elegant Lady", "Diana, Princess of Wales" is a Hybrid Tea rose with blooms being a pleasant blend of pinks and creams. In warmer climates and as the bloom ages the pink colouration darkens. Roses come on long stems with classic Hybrid Tea form, making it ideal as a cut flower. After the death of the Princess of Wales in 1997, this rose was chosen after a worldwide search and given the name "Diana, Princess of Wales" and approved as a charity rose on behalf of the Estate of Diana, Princess of Wales 'to help disadvantaged people in poor and war-torn communities around the world' with part proceeds to 'The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund' to carry on her humanitarian charitable work.
The Fund closed at the end of 2012.
The site of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens were established in the 1800's. The municipal council petitioned the Department of Lands and Survey to make this segment of land bordered by Dickens Street, Tennyson Street and Blessington Street a Botanic Garden. The gardens were formally established in 1859 when a boundary fence was erected. By 1907 significant donations of money and plant material had led to the establishment of a rosary, extensive flower beds and a nursery. Exotic forest trees were planted during the 1870s and Australian species were included in 1932. In the 1950s the Alister Clarke Rose Garden was established and a Sub-Tropical Rain-forest conservatory added in the early 1990's.
Diana, Princess of Wales Rose Bloom - St Kilda Botanical Gardens, St Kilda
The St Kilda Botanical Gardens are a very beautiful place to visit, not least for all for their wonderful array of roses found in the Alister Clarke Rose Garden.
"Diana, Princess of Wales" is a particularly beautiful rose, a fitting rose in keeping with its namesake. The rose was bred by the American rose breeder Keith Zary and released in 1998. Known in some countries as "Diana" and "Elegant Lady", "Diana, Princess of Wales" is a Hybrid Tea rose with blooms being a pleasant blend of pinks and creams. In warmer climates and as the bloom ages the pink colouration darkens. Roses come on long stems with classic Hybrid Tea form, making it ideal as a cut flower. After the death of the Princess of Wales in 1997, this rose was chosen after a worldwide search and given the name "Diana, Princess of Wales" and approved as a charity rose on behalf of the Estate of Diana, Princess of Wales 'to help disadvantaged people in poor and war-torn communities around the world' with part proceeds to 'The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund' to carry on her humanitarian charitable work.
The Fund closed at the end of 2012.
The site of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens were established in the 1800's. The municipal council petitioned the Department of Lands and Survey to make this segment of land bordered by Dickens Street, Tennyson Street and Blessington Street a Botanic Garden. The gardens were formally established in 1859 when a boundary fence was erected. By 1907 significant donations of money and plant material had led to the establishment of a rosary, extensive flower beds and a nursery. Exotic forest trees were planted during the 1870s and Australian species were included in 1932. In the 1950s the Alister Clarke Rose Garden was established and a Sub-Tropical Rain-forest conservatory added in the early 1990's.