The courtyard

In the Courtyard you can sit and enjoy your brought food at the small café tables. In this corner there is always shelter. In the background behind the large Norway spruces you can see large bush roses, all of which can tolerate a little shade. In front are Moschata roses, which provide height

between the many ground cover clematis. The ground cover clematis, which have been bred by Poulsen Roser, are actually intended as pot plants together with other summer flowers. Planted in a bed, like here in the Rose Garden, they form a ground cover and develop into a real riot of color. If you remove the wilted flowers, the flowering continues. These clematis have proven to be really winter hardy. They are not covered for the winter and are cut back with a hedge shears every spring. Our idea was to find plants with fine flowers that could be used as ground cover. This idea and this bed received the Poulsen Roser innovation prize at the world's largest plant fair in Essen in 2015. Since then, many new varieties have been added. They are all small bushes that, when not tied up, just lie along the ground like in the picture from the Courtyard. You can find most varieties in the nursery.
On a good day during the flowering season, a tour of the park can easily take a couple of hours; at least if you want to take a closer look at some of the roses and perhaps discuss both color, shape and favorites with your companions. Or take a closer look at the garden sculptures, or immerse yourself in the History Gardens, others bring a packed lunch and sit in the courtyard and enjoy the Moschata roses with the ground-covering roses in the foreground, or just sit by the No Muren and enjoy the view.

It's easy to become completely overwhelmed by the many impressions. Once you've smelled the best roses around, you can get pollen on your nose like fine ladies at the great English garden shows.
The rose garden, like any other garden, is never finished. Many guests come here several times during the season, some to follow the garden's development, others to see more of what they experienced on their last visit.

But every encounter with the rose garden is a new experience, because a garden is constantly evolving. The garden renews itself every single day. If you visit again after 14 days, some roses will bloom more than last time, others less. The hedges may have taken on a different green tone, the light is different, and you yourself are hardly the same. These are the experiences we have created the framework for. In addition, the garden is renewed year after year with modern beds, where today we combine roses with other plants, especially perennials. At the same time, new roses are added every year, so the garden is a collection of roses that you can also enjoy at home in your garden.
That way, a day that falls outside the program - may turn out to be the very best - inside the Oasis Behind the Cliff.