Rosendal Garden

Ludvig Rosenkrantz and Karen Mowatt's small manor from the 1660ies is surrounded by a beautiful and historic garden with a renaissance garden, a romantic landscape garden and the kitchen garden. fom Rosendal Garden you get a grand view of the enveloping mountains Malmangernuten, melderskin and Laurdalstind, and of the waterfalls Hattebergfossen and Hardangerfjorden. The garden has been built up over several hundred years of changing styles and fashions in gardening, Here you can experience more than 300 years of garden history.

From the first Snowdrops in January there are flowers and bushes in bloom most of the year. The spring is beautiful with fruittrees in bloom, tulips, daffodils and ascension lilies. In early summer the Wisteria blooms and covers the southern wall of the manor with wonderful blue stems. I June the rhododendron and asalea in many different colours. The roses bloom in full by Juli, and stay in bloom far into the autumn. The Rose garden is limited westward by a 300 year old buksbom. It is a leftover from the old renaissance garden f Ludvig Rosenkrantz and Karen Mowatt.

The wonderful rose garden with the whitewashed manor and the mountains in the background, is a beautiful sight or everyone coming to enjoy te manor, the garden and the landscape.