Simon Sarris

The Garden of 100 Roses

I use this name despite my ambitions of many more roses than that.

In 2023 I began designing a small flower garden for the front of my house. Focused on roses, it will also contain a number of companion plants. It has a few goals, it must be:

Beautiful and enjoyable for both my family and passerbies. This means it should be close to the house but maximally visible from the road. Like my house, it should feel like part of the town's architecture.
Landscape-sized (large), but contain more than just shrubs. So many gardens around here have a focus on being as maintenance free and context-less as possible, and I want to create something more interesting. (See: Bad gardens are often about insensitivity to context)
Managable by mostly just one person, who does not own a tractor.

If you want to contribute to this garden, you can adopt a rose.