Start Your Weekend with this Evening’s Wine and Roses

Posted in Programs and Events on June 12 2009, by Plant Talk

Gayle Schmidt is Manager of Public Education.
Wine and roses—what a romantic combination! Evening events at the Garden are among my favorite to organize. Even when I’m setting up and readying for the arrival of guests, the work is more relaxed and enjoyable. It is a different kind of busy than being in the office, because once the evening starts, I can enjoy it, too. The lengthening days allow us to be outdoors longer in June. The sun casts long streaks on the grass through the trees and a bright spotlight on the flowers and shrubs as it lowers in the sky. It is time to slow down and take in the day. It is so nice to make this peaceful time in the Garden available to our visitors as well.

Following the success of our Kiku and Cocktails evening events this past fall, this month we are highlighting the first blooms of roses at the start of their long season with Wine and Roses evenings. You can kick off your weekend with a stroll among the hundreds of plants in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden and succumb to the lure of these beautiful, scent-filled flowers as many have throughout the ages. Speak with the Curator, Peter Kukielski, and the rose gardeners themselves and learn about the different rose varieties, the new disease-resistant additions, and how the collection is cared for.

As you amble the paths, listen in the background for the live jazz, folk, or contemporary music dancing in the breeze and the gentle clinking of wine glasses celebrating the end of the week, the start of the summer, or the good company of friends. Why not spend an evening at the Garden? A great night for impressing a date, if I say so myself!

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