The Rose Garden’s Last Hurrah!

Posted in Gardens and Collections on November 4 2010, by Plant Talk

Roses aren’t just a summertime treat. The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden blooms multiple times throughout the year, bringing beauty and fragrance to those who — if you’ll pardon the expression — stop and smell the roses. While the flowers love the full sun and hot weather in the summertime, the award-winning Rose Garden thrives in fall with one last spectacular, “rose encore.” It’s the floral equivalent of a curtain call!

This will be your last chance to see these beauties in 2010. According to the Rose Garden curator Peter Kukielski, the rose garden will continue to flower until the first frost — which is unfortunately almost upon us in the Bronx. So while it’s too late to begin planting and too early to start training next year’s blooms, you’ve got this weekend to get one last look before the Rose Garden’s gates are closed until May 1st, 2011.

So if you can’t make it out this weekend to see for yourself, here’s a quick gallery of what you’re missing out on, including certain varieties named in honor of celebrities and dignitaries as well as dew covered morning beauties. All of the images are from Garden photographer Ivo M. Vermeulen (you kind find tons of his photos plus some by other talented photographers on our Flickr page. Don’t forget to submit your own to our group page too!)