Contemporary New Design Plans for The Rose Garden at The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park

An exciting contemporary new design for the Rose Garden within The Savill Garden, part of The Royal Landscape in Windsor Great Park, will shortly be submitted to Runnymede Borough Council for planning approval. Innovative garden designer Andrew Wilson has been chosen to develop the new Garden.

The design envisages the creation of an intense sensory experience with roses especially chosen for their scent, strong colours and repeat flowering. As the deep aroma of the roses naturally rises, visitors will be able to enjoy the perfume at its best, together with stunning views, from a walk way which will appear to ‘float’ above the Rose Garden which takes the form of an individual bloom.

Mark Flanagan, Keeper of The Gardens, says:

“The existing Rose Garden, established over 50 years ago, is now rather dated and its ornamental quality has fallen below what we aspire to in The Savill Garden. In keeping with the key values established by its creator Sir Eric Savill, we decided to address these problems by developing a modern rose garden design which will explore the contemporary use of roses. The new garden leaves behind traditional elements such as pergolas and the formality associated with conventional designs and leads us into a quite new way of presenting roses which will provide a fresh and stimulating visitor experience. Roses no longer enjoy the popularity they did and we want to re-evaluate how best to display these quintessentially English flowers.

“At The Savill Garden we have a tradition of working with talented designers like Andrew Wilson, creating a partnership in which they can inject their vitality and fresh ideas into the Garden.  This approach has had stunning results with The New Zealand Garden and the Golden Jubilee Garden and subject to planning approval, the revamped Rose Garden will add a new dimension to The Savill Garden”.

Garden designer Andrew Wilson adds:

“I am absolutely delighted to be working with Mark Flanagan and his staff at Savill. There is a real sense and history of progressive thinking here and I see the new rose garden as part of a continuing series of revitalising new ventures. The intensity of experience in the new garden should be dramatic and evocative. The coming months should be very exciting”.

If the new Rose Garden receives planning consent, then work will commence in the first half of 2009 and the Rose Garden will open to the public once the Garden is established in the summer 2010. It will be developed on the existing Rose Garden site of 60m x 60m and will involve the planting of over 2,500 new roses, re-landscaping and the construction of a wooden walkway above the Rose Garden. The Garden will form a key part of the Summer Gardens and will be in its prime from late June through to September.

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For more press information call Sarah Halstead, Marketing Dept, The Crown Estate, on 07918 121905 or email Sarah.Halstead@thecrownestate.co.uk

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