September 8 at 6:30 p.m.
27th and Capitol Parkway (east of Sunken Gardens and north of Hamann Rose Garden)
No charge or registration; rain date is September 15.
Learn more about beautiful plant combinations for your landscape with a visit to the Rotary Strolling Garden. Horticulturists and landscape designers will be on hand to discuss design considerations and plant combinations for easy-to-maintain landscapes with spectacular color displays. Over 50 different kinds of shrub roses and hundreds of perennials and ornamental grasses are on display.
The evening is sponsored by Finke Gardens & Nursery, which contributed most of the roses and also helped design and develop the strolling rose garden with Mark Canney, Alice Reed and Lincoln Parks and Recreation Horticulture staff.
We’ve seen a strong interest in the use of landscape roses, and yet the vast majority of people aren’t sure how to integrate them in their home landscape. Roses aren’t just for rose gardens, and this beautiful public planting is an excellent example of how they can be used with perennials, flowering shrubs and ornamental grasses said Luann Finke. Until you see how they grow, and how the colors actually develop in a Lincoln setting, it’s impossible to know for sure that you’re going to like the effect.
Finke recommends visiting the garden regularly to see how it changes through the year. For more information go to www.finkegardens.com or Lincoln Parks & Recreation, call Finkes at 402/466-1995 or Lincoln Planning Department at 441-8248, or view a podcast at Nebraska Statewide Arboretum.
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