Marc & Gini’s Excellent Adventures: The Subject is Roses

A Visit to Brooklyn Botanic’s Cranford Garden

Unidentified Roses / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

I’ve lived in NYC my entire adult life and had never visited Brooklyn Botanic Garden. New York Botantical, yes. But not BBG.

Who knew? Marc decided to school me, and from our first visit in April I was in love. We’ve now visited three times: first to see the magnolias, then to see the cherry blossoms, and most recently, on Friday, June 2, to see the roses in BBG’s  Cranford Rose Garden.

Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Oh. My. Goodness. Breathtaking doesn’t begin to describe it. If you want to stroll through an airy, blue-sky garden, down grass-carpeted paths and bricked walks, under rose-covered trellises and around profusely blooming beds, drinking in the astonishing beauty and heady perfume of roses in more colors and varieties than you can imagine, Cranford Rose Garden is the place for you: a 95-year-old garden featuring more than 1,000 varieties, making it, according to BBG, “one of the largest collections in North America.”

Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Go now if possible while most of the roses are still in first bloom, or go in late summer/early fall for the second bloom. To tempt you or tide you over, here’s a sampling of the varieties in bloom during our visit, with names and other information included for most but not all of them. (Leave your cursor on the image to access information.)

My apologies for leaving some roses unnamed. They’re all identified in the garden and have such interesting names. But their beauty speaks for itself. Enjoy.

Cubana (Shrub), Introduced 2007 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday June 2, 2023

Lions-Rose (Floribunda) Kordes, Introduced 2007 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Unidentified Rose / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Tangerine Skies (Climber) Kordes 2018 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Peter Mayle (Hybrid Tea), Introduced 2001 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Baronne Edmond de Rothschild (Hybrid Tea) Meilland 1968 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / June 2, 2023

Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Unidentified Rose / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Unidentified Rose / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Gold Medal (Grandiflora), Christensen, 1982 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Gold Medal (Grandiflora), Christensen 1982 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Unidentified Rose / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Sweet Mademoiselle (Hybrid Tea), Meilland, 2006 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Sweet Mademoiselle (Hybrid Tea), Meilland, 2006 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Fred Loads (Floribunda), Introduced 1968 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Macy's Pride (Shrub), Lim 1992 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Frédéric Mistral (Hybrid Tea), Introduced 1993 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Valencia (Hybrid Tea), Kordes, Introduced 1989 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Crazy Love (Shrub), Kordes, 2002 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Crazy Love (Shrub), Kordes 2002 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Ring of Fire (Hybrid Tea), Greenwood 2007 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Ring of Fire (Hybrid Tea), Greenwood 2007 / Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Cranford Rose Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Friday, June 2, 2023

Happy June!

 

 

 

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