The Rose Garden

During the restoration, this garden was brought back to the design that was possibly laid out by the third curator, John Law.

 

When Sheffield City Council took over the care of the Garden in the 1950s it was redesigned in a formal Italianate style enclosed with yew hedges. 

The current Rose Garden was planted in the Victorian ‘Rosarium’ design in 2006, with a huge range of roses, most of them donated by the general public.  The design tells the story of roses based on the design philosophy of John Law who was curator of the Garden in the 1840s.  The arrangement of the plants builds up a radiating ‘family tree’, with the oldest varieties at the centre and the most modern ones around the outside.

Make it stand out.

  • Roses and Spirit of the Woods statue July 2015

  • Rosa ‘Ingrid Bergman’ May 2019

  • Pan February 2022

  • Rosa ‘Korresia’ May 2019

  • Rosa ‘La Reine’ May 2019

  • Rosa ‘Soleil d'Or’ May 2019

  • Trellis May 2019

  • Trellis May 2019

  • Rosa ‘Gypsy Boy’

  • Rosa x alba ‘Alba Semiplena’

  • Rosa ‘Crown Princess Margareta’

  • Rosa ‘Baron Girod de l’ain’

The climbers, Rosa ‘Blush Noisette’ and Rosa ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’ were planted in 2003.

At the centre of the Rose Garden stands the restored statue of Pan, Spirit of the Woods. This was donated to the City of Sheffield in 1934 by Sir Charles Clifford and moved to the Gardens in 1952.