An ode to the Rose | part one

There is this rose garden  that is so beautiful that I want to dedicate more than one blog post to it. Last summer when I was there the flowers were in full bloom, that is why I have a lot of photographs I want to show you.

The rose garden, the Rosarium, belongs to Castle Arcen, which is in the south of the Netherlands in the province of Limburg. Even though Netherlands is well known for the tulips, the northern part of Limburg is famous for the roses. Especially the rose village Lottum, which has its own rose festival, farms, routes, etc.  There is also a tea house that serves a rose themed high tea where everything is prepared with roses, like cake, jam, tea, coffee, wine and other things. Yum!