A colorful and fragrant rose garden

Walking in the rose garden, our visitors can admire more than 130 varieties of roses. Most of our roses are opening their petals now, and the flowers in all the colors of the rainbow are not only pleasing to the eye, but also have a very pleasant scent. Our collection includes tea rose hybrids with large, fragrant flowers, long-blooming floribunda and polyantha varieties with several flowers on their shoots, miniatures that are fashionable today, and renaissance roses with a penetrating fragrance. An interesting fact is that the memorial of St. Elizabeth of Árpádházi, bred in Hungary, is a rose variety. Our standard rose bed, featuring noble rose varieties based on wild rose stock, is located in the field outside the rose garden.

The rose garden pavilion decorated with running roses provides visitors with a pleasant, shady resting place.

Roses are popular not only for their color but also for their fragrance. The most fragrant varieties of roses are grown in a large area, and the very valuable rose oil is extracted from their petals, which is used in the highest quality cosmetic products. The most important oil rose growing country is Bulgaria, but there are also rose growing areas in the south of France, Algeria, and Morocco. A less well-known delicacy here, but popular in these countries, is jam made from rose petals or candied roses.

Noble roses rarely mature. Varieties are propagated mainly by seeding: the buds separated from the noble plant are placed as "seeds" on "stocks" of plants grown from wild rose seeds. With this method, the characteristics of the varieties can be preserved. Some varieties can also be propagated by rooting "cuttings" of shoot pieces. The area around Szeged-Szőreg is the country's most important rose-growing region.

Roses also have a symbolic meaning for many peoples. The opening rosebud, the fragrant flower, as a symbol of youth and beauty, the queen of flowers, has been immortalized in many literary and musical works.

An important medicinal plant is the common herbRosa canina), whose rosehip pseudofruit is used to make tea and jam. Hecsedli jam made from pork loin is a tasty treat and a rich source of vitamins.

We look forward to welcoming our visitors!