This remarkable garden featuring some of the world’s best roses is a Timaru attraction that cannot be copied and cannot be bettered. It is a tribute to renowned South Canterbury rosarian and author, Trevor Griffiths, whose collection of genuine old roses was once the third largest in the world. It is from this collection, plus a further 600 modern roses from English breeder, David Austin, that the garden of 1200 roses has evolved. Architecturally designed to include some 60 small gardens, an attractive entrance, lych gate, gazebo, arbours and central pergola, it has become a talking point with local people and visitors since its opening on 10 December 2001.
It is said roses like the sun and roses like a little breeze through them. Both are natural phenomenons in Timaru but the surrounding Monterary Cyprus (macrocarpa) hedge ensures protection from unwelcome elements as well as containing the garden in one special area to be admired as an entity in itself.
Funded entirely by the Timaru Beautifying Society and generous public donations the Trevor Griffiths Rose Garden is now under the management of the Timaru District Council.
OPEN: always - best times December, January and February
Special Features
- Representative plants of all main rose families can be seen
- Close viewing of named roses through the season - flowers, hips, growth habit
- Geometric design can be viewed from the raised platforms of the Piazza and Bay Hill
- Use of structures in a formal rose garden setting
- Old Roses planted in a spectacular sequence of colours: soft, mid and deep pink, burgundy, crimson, cream, white, peach, apricot, yellow, golden yellow
Free Admission
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