Harold Caparn, and landscape architect, and BBG's horticulturist Montague Free collaborated to design the Cranford Rose Garden.

The 5,000 bushes of the garden contain almost 1,400 differents kinds of roses including wild species roses, old garden roses, hybrid tea roses, floribundas, polyanthas, hybrid perpetual, climbers, ramblers, and miniature roses.

Even today, the garden still contains some of the roses planted in 1928.

Peak bloom happens in early June. The BBG typically hosts events to mark the occasion every year.

The garden is one of the largest in North America. In the words of Edward G. Bulwer Lytton: "Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Patrons of all ages have come to enjoy the garden's fine fleurs for almost a century.