Clear vinyl place mats with images of huge garden roses bring early spring to a wintertime table.

If I were a Swiss director, I'd probably be making films about garden roses.

Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses.

Among the striking elements are a 14-foot-tall weeping willow, masses of white garden roses and a heavy petanque ball - the latest accessory.

The wild rose species can be grown in gardens, but most garden roses are cultivars, which have been chosen by people.

The species is also important in the breeding of many modern garden roses, including the Hybrid Tea roses.

There is no single system of classification for garden roses.

This group contains some of the oldest garden roses.

Miniature garden roses only grow in the summer.

When she died, in 1814, the garden had around 250 types of garden roses.