The San Jose Heritage Rose Garden is expanding its collection of historic climbing roses to a new location at a boundary of Santa Clara University. As the roses grow, they will help shield a new SCU facilities building and equipment yard from public view. The roses also will provide the City of Santa Clara with a rosy portal at a busy intersection, where El Camino Real begins. The Dec. 10 planting, beginning at 10 a.m., will include 100 climbing roses of the more than 250 that will be planted along the fence when the project is completed.
Additional roses are to be planted over the next two seasons.
Repeat blooming roses will be interspersed with once-blooming roses. The first blossoms are to appear next spring. The San Jose Heritage Rose Garden at Spring and Taylor Streets is part of the downtown San Jose Guadalupe River Park and Gardens. The fence planting project adds to the over 4,500 roses of over 3,500 varieties in the garden, the largest collection of rose varieties in the Western Hemisphere.