Best Friend Rose Bloom - St Kilda Botanical Gardens, St Kilda

            The St Kilda Botanical Gardens are a very beautiful place to visit, not least for all for their wonderful array of roses found in the Alister Clarke Rose Garden.

"Best Friend" is a variety of hybrid tea rose created by the famous French rose breeders Meilland International Roses.  Described as stylish, classic rose of great beauty and richness, "Best Friend" has vibrant blooms of deep, hot plum pink.  Being a hybrid tea rose they have a strong sweet perfume. "Best Friend" was named by the RSPCA to honour the unconditional special friendship that comes from loving a pet.

The site of the St Kilda Botanical Gardens were established in the 1800's.  The municipal council petitioned the Department of Lands and Survey to make this segment of land bordered by Dickens Street, Tennyson Street and Blessington Street a Botanic Garden.  The gardens were formally established in 1859 when a boundary fence was erected.  By 1907 significant donations of money and plant material had led to the establishment of a rosary, extensive flower beds and a nursery.  Exotic forest trees were planted during the 1870s and Australian species were included in 1932.  In the 1950s the Alister Clarke Rose Garden was established and a Sub-Tropical Rain-forest conservatory added in the early 1990's.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Saint Kilda South (show map)

Taken on: October 31, 2020

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, f/2.8, 1/800 sec, 6.2mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	6.2mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
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