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Owen Rose Garden Development Plan -1996 <br /> Rose Society Design Committee: <br /> 1. Preserve and enhance old rose collection - pergola moved out of old rose area. <br /> 2. Keep existing path alignment along modem rose garden area - path kept essentially on <br /> existing alignment. <br /> 3. Keep hedge along the bike path on the west side - this has been retained and will allow for <br /> addition of more wire trellis for climbing roses. <br /> 4. Path parallel to the service road is unnecessary - this has been removed it the design. <br /> 5. Ambiance and design of old rose garden should be different than that of the modern rose <br /> garden - the design has been changed to provide two distinctive styles that are compatible with <br /> the space constraints. <br /> 6. Old rose garden should have several smaller sub -areas, each with a style appropriate for the <br /> roses they contain - the design of the old rose garden is a sweeping central lawn surrounded by a <br /> deep parterre of large beds. The beds can be grouped into separate styles for different rose <br /> collections. Some have different exposures, some have more shade, some relate to a proposed <br /> water feature, and some relate to proposed sculpture focal points. Beyond the parterre are <br /> border areas suitable for companion plants and background plantings. <br /> 7. The old house location could become a teaching garden - the shape of a future community <br /> building is suggested on the plan. The space surrounding the proposed structure can be used for <br /> a teaching garden as well as companion plantings. A teaching garden can occupy the building <br /> site until the time the structure is to be built. <br /> 8. Closing the garden during off hours is a good idea. The gates and fencing has been retained <br /> in the design. It is even suggested that a gate be placed at the road entrance to the parking lot. <br /> 9. The large circular pergola is too large and undesirable. This has been eliminated from the <br /> design. <br /> 10. The circular structure should be separate from the long pergola and more towards the <br /> northwest. The design now incorporates a dominant long pergola which aligns on an axis with <br /> the old Tartarian Cherry tree. The pergola was moved a little to the north and east and stays on <br /> top of the slope now occupied by the old house. The pergola has been placed so as to not affect <br /> the location of the old roses that cannot be moved. The notion of a separate structure has <br /> evolved into a gazebo located in the middle of the lawn area in the old rose garden section. A <br /> straight path and a sweeping curved path meet at the gazebo, which has a prominent position in <br /> the old rose garden and can be viewed by people walking under the pergola. <br />