Charles de Gaulle 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.
Named after the great French statesman, "Charles de Gaulle", this hybrid Tea Rose has beautiful lavender blooms with a strong perfume and very few thorns. "Charles de Gaulle" is one of the best ‘blue’ roses as it combines fragrance, form and colour. It was produced by Meilland International in France in 1974.
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.
Charles de Gaulle 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.
Named after the great French statesman, "Charles de Gaulle", this hybrid Tea Rose has beautiful lavender blooms with a strong perfume and very few thorns. "Charles de Gaulle" is one of the best ‘blue’ roses as it combines fragrance, form and colour. It was produced by Meilland International in France in 1974.
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.