Victoria Educational Gardens
Antique Roses
and Earth-Kindฎ Trial Garden
No garden would be complete without a beautiful display of roses and Victoria Educational Gardens has the distinction of being designated a National Earth-Kind Rose Test Site.

You can view these test roses along with 15 roses that have already achieved that special status.

You can also view VCMGA's special selection of Antique Roses.  All these roses have special markers for you to find which ones you like best.
Carefree Beauty aka
Katy Road Pink
This special rose is so good, it is the control for the Earth-Kind Rose Test Site
Please read Mary and Jerome Janak's article on Earth-Kind Roses which appeared
in The Victoria Advocate's Gardeners' Dirt
This image shows the Earth-Kind Rose Test bed at Victoria Educational Gardens.  Each rose must be planted 8 feet apart and receive no special care other than watering and mulching..
This area is also the Earth-Kind Rose Trial bed.  The area is located next to the Meditation Cathedral Gazebo.  You will be able to view each rose that is on trial for selection as an Earth-Kind rose.  They are left to right: Pipe Dreams, Souvenir De St. Anne's, Soncy, Malaguena, Winter Sunset, and Carefree Beauty, which is the control rose.
2009 Earth-Kind Rose Trial Garden UPDATED PHOTOS -->CLICK
This bed shows the special selection of Antique Roses at Victoria Educational Gardens.  This bed is between the Iris Bed and the Ornamental Grass Bed.  Planted from right to left  are the following: 
1.  ??? Unknown Red –
2.  Penelope – large pale pink shrub (by post 1)
3.  Cecile Brunner – pink Sweetheart Rose
4.  Old Blush – lilac pink to dark pink  shrub
5.  Mrs. Dudley Cross – yellow blushes pink in sun (by post 2)
6.  Marchesa Boccella – pink in clusters of 3
7.  Reine des Violettes – cerise lilac thornless
8.  Unknown small bush
9.  Sombreuil Climber – creamy white (by post 3)
10. Rose de Rescht – lilac pink flowers
11. Baronne Prevost – rose pink resembles Paul Neyron
12. Souvenir de la Malmaison – flesh colored pink Queen of Beauty and Fragrance
13. ??? (by post 4)
14. Paul Neyron – rich pink often referred to as cabbage rose
15. Marie Pavie – pale pink buds unfold creamy white
16. Crepuscule – nearly orange fading to apricot yellow (by post 5)
17. Buff Beauty – muted apricot spread shrub

Please excuse the lack of names on a few roses.  This is a work in progress. 
A list of all the roses in VEG:

Climbing Roses on Rose Arbor by Heirloom and Patriotic from patio east

8               7                             6               5                           4,3,2              1
Cramoisi    Lamarque                 Trier         Madame                 Reverse           Don Juan
Superieur   White w/                   Creamy    Alfred Carriere                               Red Cl.
Red Cl       Touch of yellow                        Palest pink to creamy

EarthKind Trial Bed by Rose Arbor from right to left

11               9               7               5               3               1
Souvenir      Soncy       Winter        Carefree     Soncy        Malaguena
De St. Anne’s               Sunset        Beauty

12               10               8              6                          4                       2
Malaguena    Carefree      Pipe          Souvenir               Pipe Dreams       Winter
                    Beauty        Dreams     De St. Anne’s                                 Sunset

EarthKind Trial Bed by Cathedral Arbor from right to left

6                      5                     4                    3                    2                    1
Pipe Dreams     Souvenir           Soncy             Malaguena       Winter            Carefree
                        De St Anne’s                                                Sunset            Beauty

Antique Roses along the Hanger Drive from right to left

1.  ??? Unknown Red –
2.  Penelope – large pale pink shrub (by post 1)
3.  Cecile Brunner – pink Sweetheart Rose
4.  Old Blush – lilac pink to dark pink  shrub
5.  Mrs. Dudley Cross – yellow blushes pink in sun (by post 2)
6.  Marchesa Boccella – pink in clusters of 3
7.  Reine des Violettes – cerise lilac thornless
8.  Unknown small bush
9.  Sombreuil Climber – creamy white (by post 3)
10. Rose de Rescht – lilac pink flowers
11. Baronne Prevost – rose pink resembles Paul Neyron
12. Souvenir de la Malmaison – flesh colored pink Queen of Beauty and Fragrance
13. ??? (by post 4)
14. Paul Neyron – rich pink often referred to as cabbage rose
15. Marie Pavie – pale pink buds unfold creamy white
16. Crepuscule – nearly orange fading to apricot yellow (by post 5)
17. Buff Beauty – muted apricot spread shrub
The Patio/Container area has a couple of roses that do well in pots.  The names will be added asap. 
There are also some heirloom roses in the heirloom section of VEG by the Rose Arbor and Patriotic area.  They are Prosperity, a white bush/climber and ??? a red bush/climber.  Names to be posted soon!
VEG Children's Garden also has the Climbing Pinkie on the entry arbor and the Valentine, Kockout, and Belinda's Dream in the Sensory Area. (Click on each for larger view and then backspace.)