The Wars of the Roses Garden
Before Henry VII came to the throne, England had been torn by 30 years of civil war. What we now think of as the History plays were a popular retelling of the nation’s heroes and villains, though war had divided families and loyalties for many years.
In this garden, note the towering white York rose, next to the rugged, scrappy Lancaster red. See if you can appreciate the symbolism of uniting these two warring families (symbolized by the red-and-white-striped Tudor Rose) to create a new, unified England under Henry VII, the first of the Tudor line.
