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Tag: Elizabeth Park

  • Sunday, October 25, 10 – 4 – Come See Our Bloomers!

    Beautiful orchids from all over the world will be displayed by hobbyists, commercial growers and orchid societies on Sunday, October 25, 2009, at the “Come See Our Bloomers!” Show and Sale.  The event will take place at The Pond House at Elizabeth Park, 1555 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut, and admission is free.  See exhibits by orchid and orchid supply vendors, enjoy related arts and crafts, and participate in a teacup raffle.  For further information, contact Jeanne McDermott, President of the Nutmeg State Orchid Society, Inc., at PO Box 131, Farmington, CT 06034-0131, 860-677-5381, or email NSOScontact@comcast.net.  For more information, log on to www.nutmegorchids.org.

  • Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21 – Rose Weekend

    Rose Weekend has been held annually for more than a century in Hartford, Connecticut’s Elizabeth Park, the nation’s oldest municipal  rose garden. It is a two and one half acre garden  which has about 800 varieties of roses that amount to 15,000 plants .  Rambling roses cover arched walkways in the garden and the beds are filled with roses of every shape and color.  Along the border, fences of climbing and shrub roses provide a colorful background for the bedding plants.  The Rose Garden is one of only 22 public All America Test Gardens in the country.  This test program evaluates new roses before they are introduced to the general public.  While the main rose garden shows off the more modern roses, the Heritage Rose Garden is the home to more historical varieties.  A number of unusual and interesting roses are found here.  During its peak bloom time of early to mid June, it is the most fragrant place to be in the park.For more information, call 860-231-9443, or log on to www.elizabethpark.org.