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Victoria State Rose Garden
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Victorian Memory grows very well in the Rocky Mountain gardens of Denver. My roses are 5 years old, are about 7 feet high, and bloom abundantly with lovely scented in less than 4 hours of sunlight. This is a very vigorous rose as it is competing with an adjacent blue spruce as well.
I would recommend this rose for virtually any location.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
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surely there are more than 9 roses in this garden. Is it open to the public? if so when ?
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9 JAN 06 by
kate
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The garden is in the St Kilda Botanic Garden is open - sunrise to sunset daily. [However they do not seem to lock the gates at night - but I am fearful of going in after dark because of teh activities of some of St Kilda's denizens.]
They certainly seem to have more than 9 plants - I have emailed the Port Phillip Council's parks and maintenance division, but they haven't responded yet. The Friends of the St Kilda Botanic garden may also be able to help - but I haven't contacted them yet.
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Thanks Kate I do appreciate you taking the time to answer .Will have a look next time I'm in the area
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HelpMeFind is an interactive site. We always welcome having a representative update the HMF listings but often that's not the case and we learn details in drib and drabs.
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The St Kilda rose garden is still flourishing in 2008, but the number of Alister Clark roses there is dwindling. There are perhaps two climbers and six bushes left, all unlabelled. The gardeners seem to be replacing the Clark roses with David Austin ones. Many beds have popular favorites by neither.
Still, there is now an Alister Clark Rose Garden in the township of Bulla north of Melbourne where most of his roses were bred. It's on the highway next to the old bluestone shire hall, and it has a superb collection of his roses (about 70), beautifully maintained and presented, and very well labelled.
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There is now a little to be read about the Alister Clark Memorial Garden in the Notes
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Yes, thank you Patricia. I inserted all the extra material on the Bulla garden yesterday.
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Just clarifying a little, Erictime. There is more to be read about the (older) Alister Clark Memorial Garden (St. Kilda Botanic Gardens) in that page.
This is distinct from the (newer) Alister Clark Memorial Garden (at Bulla).
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Patricia, many thanks. The long extract from the journal is illuminating, and I remember the high intentions expressed at the time the St Kilda Garden was opened. Unfortunately it has since fallen away steeply from the original aims. It is foolish to have two Alister Clark Memorial Gardens within forty miles of one another, especially as one of them has all the available Clark roses and the other has about six. I'll try to get on to that St Kilda curator and see if she's still there.
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I live in the western suburbs of Melbourne( Victoria Australia)
I grow "Kuba" in a large water-well pot, in morning sun , it is one of the best clematis I have after a great display in spring & summer i pruned it in Febuary & 5 weeks later i had another flush. We did have an exceptionally hot March.
Tha rest of my clematis are in the ground in various aspect of my garden
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This Garden is listed twice
Once as the State Rose Garden
then as Victoria State Rose Garden
They are one & the Same
Do you remove this one or do I?
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15 MAY 08 by
 jedmar
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We have removed the State Garden. Thank you for the head up.
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