RR A Year in the Rose Garden

Activity
Summer/Fall 2021|#6368

Sep 4, 2021
All ages, Mixed
Special EventsAdult
Activity locationRobins Room in the Robins Visitors Center

Description

There is not much difference between a rose garden and any other sort of garden. All gardens require a series of simple tasks performed on a relatively flexible schedule. The results of that attention to your garden will reward your effort. This program gives a month-by-month outline of what to do to have a rose garden you love. Connie Hilker is a longtime rose collector and operated Hartwood Roses, a former specialty rose nursery. Hilker will be selling and signing copies of her book Heritage Roses: A Collection of Essays and Lessons after her program.

Fees: Free with Garden Admission. Limited capacity: pre-registration required

Activity meeting dates

Saturday, September 4, 2021, 2 - 3 pm

More Information

Number of sessions1

Registration dates

From Aug 26, 2021
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Notes
Our Garden continues to follow CDC recommendations and state guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID-19. Properly worn masks are required for indoor class participants regardless of vaccination status. Non-vaccinated participants are also required to wear masks when outdoors and unable to maintain 6 feet of social distancing. The Garden reserves the right to implement additional safety measures. Any updates will be communicated prior to class, if possible.


Connie Hilker is a lifelong gardener with more than 500 varieties of roses in her personal collection. She manages the documentation, preservation, and restoration of the historic rose collection at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, and is the rose consultant at the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. Connie can often be found visiting cemeteries, house museums, and old home sites; traveling and presenting programs about rose history, care, and propagation; or quietly working in her own garden in Hartwood, Virginia. She shares her garden, projects, pets and travels on Instagram @hartwoodroses.

This program is part of the Richmond Rose Society Show, an exhibit of roses at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on September 4-5, 2021, and presented by the Richmond Rose Society.