Nature lovers, gardeners, and those looking for family fun willdefinitely want to stop and smell the roses during Rose Weekend 2024 at Lyndhurst.
The event, which happens Saturday, June 8th and Sunday, June 9th from 10 AM-3 PM, has everything from gorgeous gardens to puppet shows, potting workshops, horticultural walk-and-talks, a popup café, and more, and is sure to appeal to all ages.
Following on the heels of the wildly successful flower-filled Lyndhurst in Bloom event in April, Rose Weekend is filled with a bounty of offerings that go way beyond just roses. Rose Weekend attendees will be able to enjoy the sights and smells of hundreds of roses (and can even purchase a rare “Helen Gould Rose” to take home as a souvenir), attend potting workshops, see puppet shows, listen to a rosarian talk with Peter Winne, participate in a rose bouquet demo, and take part in a garden book talk. Gardening professionals (from Seeds of Design, Ardsley Pollinator Pathway, Seed on Hudson, and Hudson Compost) will be on site to answer questions, and walk-and-talks will explore different trees and plants with expert guidance. All these activities are included in the price of admission.
On Saturday, a popup café will be selling lunch and snacks, and Penny Lick Ice Cream Company will have ice cream for sale. On Sunday, in addition to lunch, snacks, and ice cream, mocktails will be available from Apero Vespa.
Lyndhurst’s fabled rose garden was first developed in the early 1900s when Helen Gould (a philanthropist and member of New York City’s wealthy Gould family) was at Lyndhurst. During World War II, the garden was neglected, but in the 1960s, the Garden Club of Irvington began to restore the rose garden.
Now, the Lyndhurst Rose Garden contains approximately 500 roses. Old garden and shrub roses include Bourbon, damask, hybrid foetida, hybrid musk, hybrid perpetual, rugosa, moss, and pimpinellifolia. Modern roses in the garden include hybrid tea, floribunda, polyantha, grandiflora, modern shrubs, ramblers, and climbers. The garden includes “single” roses with 4-7 petals, “semi-double” roses with 8-14 petals, and “very double” roses which may have as many as 40 petals.
Helen Gould roses will be for sale in the Welcome Center Courtyard. The “Helen Gould” rose, described as “watermelon” colored and popular in its time, was later renamed “Red Maman Cochet.” Of the five Maman Cochet sister roses (pink, yellow, crimson, white, and red) only the white and pink varieties exist today. During her time at Lyndhurst, Helen Gould’s rose garden was full of pink rose blooms. Bring home this unique souvenir of Lyndhurst’s horticultural past.
Tickets are $30 per car + service fees
Registration is required. Purchase tickets, see the full schedule of events, and register for events: https://lyndhurst.org/events/rose-weekend-2024/
