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Municipal Rose Garden

San Jose, has many curious and popular places that you can visit during your visit to this city, but today we want to highlight and tell you about one in particular, which you cannot miss and let yourself be enchanted by the environment, the energy it transmits, and the surprises that await you within its grounds, yes, we mean the municipal rose garden, in the city of San Jose, California, this place will be the perfect visit if you and your family like outdoor activities, nature and the preservation of plants, so if you consider yourself a nature lover, you will surely know how to enjoy and appreciate this beautiful experience in this magical garden:

Picture From San Jose Municipal Rose GardenYou can find this beautiful place on Dana avenue and avenue in San Jose California, the entrance is completely free, and they work every day to the public from 8:00 until sunset.

This place extends with a very beautiful green on the wavy lawn, in addition to offering us the most beautiful and colorful flowers that make this magical place stand out and stand out, this municipal garden of San Jose, was named as one of the best gardens with roses from the united states, flowers are being born every day, this place has about 3500 plantations and approximately 189 varieties in outstanding flowers.

This garden is dedicated exclusively to all the shrubs of the rose family that is why it has 4000 rose bushes with a total of 189 varieties of flowers represented. They also have hybrids that are part of the garden in 75% of these plantations. These shrubs are characterized by having a single bloom in the center just at the top of the stem.

When the month of May arrives, it is the best time to visit for its majestic and showy flowers, we can say that it is the time of year where you can see the garden in its best stage. It is also a plum orchard, we can say that it is a place very visited by locals and tourists, it receives a few thousand visits each year. It is a good place to spend the afternoon with family, friends with a picnic and let yourself be enchanted by nature and the scent of roses.

What happens when you visit the Jardin de Rosas:

Visitors who come to this garden will be able to see floribundas, with clusters of flowers per stem; there are also the grandifloras, which are slightly taller than the hybrids and these have both clusters and stems that contain a single flower; h there are miniature representations of roses; You will find climbing plants, and a variety of roses that which throws long canes, these adhere to the fences that surround a large part of the garden; and there are also the polyanthas, these rose bushes that are characterized by having a low growth with clusters of flowers of a small size.

There is no doubt that visitors will have a unique and magical visit enjoying the flowers with vibrant colors, which make them striking during the time from April to November, but we repeat that the best garden time is at the beginning of May.

Varieties of species of Roses:

The Municipal Rose Garden in the city of San José is also home to newly hybridized roses and other new varieties of roses. All-American Rose Selections, which is an organization that is dedicated to qualification, sends these new varieties to the Municipal Rose garden to test them before releasing them to the public, these roses are tested in terms of health, quantity, color, shape, unique flowering qualities, before being approved as a new variety and released into the public domain.

Visitors to this Garden will be able to notice with the help of a map that it is detailed with all the plantations which list many species with names ranging from Voo Doo, Bon Bon to San Jose Sunshine. These people who are the hybridizers of roses are developing new varieties and species, choosing a special name for these creations, which when submitted to the international flower registry program, it is said that they have cataloged more than 10,000 varieties of roses to date.


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