Quatre Saisons is one of the largest private gardens in Western Australia open to public, Quatre Saisons or Four Seasons was named after a heritage rose with a lineage dating back to the 13th century and ancestor of many of today's roses.
This amazing garden presented by a Perth rose gardener, Donna Brown. She presents her rare and heritage varieties to the world starting five years ago with charity days and proving so popular it is now on display for two seasons a year.
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| Some of rose collection of Quatre Saisons |
She gardens on a hectare of the four-hectare property. She is concentrating on rare and heritage roses and intensively underplanting them with annuals and perennials. The location is at Glen Forrest, 35 km from Perth. Now, the roses at Quatre Saisons are more than thousand and the numbers are creeping up.
Donna trained in fine arts, painted large colorful oils. So she is always experimenting with color schemes and each year sees a new parade of annuals following her latest ideas. She does mainly botanical works, including illustrating the National Heritage Rose Journal.
The climate there is perfect for roses but the soil is "terrible". Donna built up garden beds so she could fill them with exactly the soil she needs and keeps up heavy mulching.
Quatre Saisons is open October 1 to December 24, 10am - 5pm, Sunday and Monday, Thursday and Friday, and open again in autumn. Peak viewing time is late October and early November.
