Besides evidencing spontaneous improvisation, several distinct qualities characterize Rose’s gardens. The landscapes lend themselves to contemplation and self-discovery, sensitively responding to their sites, by incorporating existing natural features such as rock outcroppings and trees as part of a flexible, asymmetrical geometry. Abhorring waste, Rose often recycled discarded building materials and constructions originally intended for other purposes. Old doors became elegant garden benches, metal barbeques turned into fountains, railroad ties became walls for irregular garden terraces. Overall, Rose's gardens are highly ordered sculptural compositions of space meant to be experienced rather than viewed. While Rose's gardens exhibit little interest in color or concern for horticultural variety, they sensitively reveal the natural character of their sites.