Literature about roses

On your walks through our Rosarium you can see 80,000 rose bushes and admire about 8600 rose species and varieties.
And to make sure you don't lose the overview, there is our rose directory - to read up on, take away and give as a gift!

Historical roses enchant us with their unparalleled charm, their scent and the superb spectrum of their colours and shades from white to carmine and velvety violet. For thousands of years they have been cultivated for medicinal purposes, the production of rose oil and perfume, and fpr their versatility, grace and beauty.

In this book Hella Brumme and Eilike Vemmer describe the 349 Gallica, Damask, Alba, Centifolia and Moss rose varieties that are to be found in the Europa-Rosarium Sangerhausen, the world´s foremost rosarium.