![]() ![]() * Photo permits may be required at any City of San Jose Park.Please note: There is a $60 non-refundable application fee for all ceremony sites. If reserving a wedding ceremony site, photo permit fees are included in the reservation fee.Please note: There is a $60.00 Application Fee and $40.00 Permit fee. Photo Permits: Two hour photo permit fee at the Japanese Friendship Garden, Municipal Rose Garden, Regional Parks, and Neighborhood Parks.The Municipal Rose Garden offers two sites for wedding ceremonies, the Fountain Arbor and the Rose Garden Stage. The Rose Garden is at its peak in May when the blossoms are at their most aromatic and romantic best. More than 4,000 colorful roses are in bloom from April through November. Roses, roses everywhere from palest pinks to the deepest reds, your guests will be surrounding by delightful scents and images. This popular 5 1/2-acre park, located in the Rose Garden District at Naglee and Dana Avenues, is a world of color and fragrance. Weddings: The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden was recognized for its stunning beauty by being voted "America's Best Rose Garden" by All American Rose Selection (AARS) and "best location" to get married by the San Jose Mercury News in the same year.Picnic areas are non-reservable, and are occupied at a first-come, first-serve basis. Rose hybridizers who develop new varieties choose the names for their creations, which are then submitted to the International Rose Registration Program of the American Rose Society, which has cataloged over 15,000 varieties. Visitors to the Garden will note that a detailed map of plantings (inside brochure and posted in the Garden) lists hundreds of varieties with names ranging from "Bon Bon" to "Voo Doo" and "Olé" to "San José Sunshine." The roses are tested in areas like health, amount of blooms, color, form and unique qualities of bloom, before being accepted as a new variety and released to the public. In fact, the All-American Rose Selections, a national independent rating organization sends the new varieties to the Garden for testing before release to the general public. San José's Municipal Rose Garden is also home to newly hybridized rose and new rose varieties. A favorite time to visit though is early May when the acres of fragrant, majestic roses are at their most beautiful stage. Visitors can enjoy colorful, showy blooms throughout the April to November season. Visitors to the Garden can also expect to see floribundas, which have clusters of blooms per stem grandifloras, which are taller than hybrid-teas and feature both clusters and single bloom stems miniature roses climbers, a rose variety that sends out long canes, which are trained up onto the fences surrounding the Garden and polyanthas, low growing rose shrubs with clusters of small flowers. These shrubs are characterized by a single high centered bloom per stem. Hybrid–teas comprise 75% of the plantings. The garden is exclusively devoted to shrubs of the rose family and features over 4,000 rose shrubs with 189 varieties represented. San José's 5.5 acre Municipal Rose Garden – a one-time prune orchard – is today one of the most attractive of its kind in the world, drawing thousands of visitors each year. In fact, hardly a day passes when some species is not in full bloom, with more than 3,500 plantings and 189 varieties featured. Rolling green lawns and colorful showy blooms highlight the San José Municipal Rose Garden. ![]() Overfelt Gardens Park Master Plan Project.Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services News.Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services Calendar.Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services.
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