Roses remain one the world's most popular garden plants.
Their beauty and fragrance have combined to make them favorites since antiquity. Various species and cultivars flower May through September. The Garden is an official All-America Rose Garden. Established in 1975 by an endowment from D. Abbott Turner in memory of his wife, Elizabeth Bradley Turner, the Rose Garden was among the first gardens developed at the State Botanical Garden. This single-flowered white species which blooms in spring is native to China.