Pathway through the Rose Garden towards Ranger's House.

Greenwich Park

Plants of the Greenwich Park Rose Garden

Explore the diverse flowers and plants that bring colour, structure and seasonal interest to the Greenwich Park Rose Garden throughout the year.

The Greenwich Park Rose Garden is home to a wide variety of flowers and plants, carefully selected to create beautiful displays. This page highlights some of the plants that can be found within the garden, helping visitors identify the species growing here.

The collection is organised by planting area, and each section features photographs and plant names to showcase the character and variety of the garden's borders. Additional flowers and plants will be added to this guide over time, creating an increasingly comprehensive record of the Rose Garden's planting.

Meadow border

These borders run alongside the new Ranger's House meadow. To pick up on the character of this flowering grass meadow, these borders have large groups of ornamental grasses and plants typically found in a prairie style display. These grasses and herbaceous perennials provide interest during the growing season all the way through autumn and winter, showing off their bronzed stems and seed heads. Roses are woven throughout with the Heart Garden at its centre, a big statement of roses en masse.

Blue for You, Rosa 'Pejamblu' Floribunda
Comte de Champagne, Rosa 'Ausufo'
Dannahue, Rosa 'Ausa6b15'
Kew Gardens, Rosa 'Ausfence'
Tottering-by-Gently, Rosa 'Auscartoon'
Tuscany Superb, Rosa gallica

Pergola border

These borders frame the two pergolas and have common anchor plants throughout. They also have varying cultivars of plants within the same genus and species from side to side, and contain plants that enjoy being in full sun and provide both ornamental interest and a wide array of options for pollinators. The pergolas are host to large rambling roses woven with Clematis. As the plants grow over time, you will be able to take shade and view the formal site lines of the landscape layout, enjoying the mass of informal mixed planting.

Blue for You, Rosa 'Pejamblu' Floribunda
Cardinal de Richelieu, Rosa gallica
Celsiana, Rosa damascena
Chianti, Rosa 'Auswine'
Desdemona, Rosa 'Auskindling'
Emily Brontë, Rosa 'Ausearnshaw'
Grouse 2000, Rosa 'Korteilhab'
Nye Bevan, Rosa 'Auspital'
Peace, Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland'
Scarborough Fair, Rosa 'Ausoran'
Silas Marner, Rosa 'Ausraveloe'
The Lark Ascending, Rosa 'Ausursula' (with Patrinia punctiflora and Verbena bonariensis)
The Sheperdess, Rosa 'Austwist'
Tottering-by-Gently, Rosa 'Auscartoon'
Vanessa Bell, Rosa 'Auseasel'
William Lobb, Rosa centifolia muscosa

Central borders

These borders laid the groundwork for what the garden has become. Originally created as part of a cross-Royal Parks Apprenticeship scheme, parks staff and apprentices collaborated to design an entrance display that showcased contemporary planting styles. The project began with two sample borders planted beside the Cherry Avenue Gate, giving visitors the opportunity to see what a modern mixed garden could look like. The subsequent borders along this path build on themes established in those original designs, featuring obelisks supporting climbing roses and clematis, pastel-toned herbaceous planting and a long linear form that frames the view towards Rangers House.