
RR A Year in the Rose Garden
ActivitySummer/Fall 2021|#6368
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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
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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.