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Seasonal Highlights in Ellwanger Garden

When is the best time to visit Ellwanger Garden?

by Beverly Gibson

llwanger Garden is a remarkable place The deliberate sequence of bloom in
Eat any time of year, not just during the garden can be extended somewhat. Dates when the garden is
the weekends of the Lilac Festival or Perennials like Geranium sanguineum
the Rose and Peony weekend. Without var. striatum, creeping geranium, can be open for the “drop-in” visitor,
a doubt the days between the middle of induced to bloom a second time if they no appointment needed:
are sheared to the ground after the first
May and the middle of June are the best
Toronto Christmas Market perennials, trees and shrubs. Yet the to flower if “deadheading” (removing May 11 & 12 from 10 am to 4 pm
Lilac Festival Saturday and Sunday
for color and variety of blooming bulbs,
flush has faded. Many others can continue
and Saturday and Sunday May 18 &
spent flowers) is a regular practice.
boxwood-lined pathways, and the sense
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Platycodon grandiflorum, balloon flower,
of enclosure achieved by the hemlocks,
yews and tall boxwood trees that line the
can be kept blooming among the astilbes
Peony/Rose Weekend June 8 and 9
garden’s perimeter can charm visitors in
for weeks.
the absence of riotous color.
The sequence of bloom continues to from 10 am to 4 pm
Tuesday Twilight Hours from June
After the spring perennials and the progress through late summer and fall. through September, 5:30 pm to
bounty of peonies and roses there are late Look for seven-foot Actaea racemosa , 7 pm
varieties of some of these same plants Black Cohosh, in late July and August
still in bloom. Then some of the roses and the pinks and whites of Anemone Scheduling a group tour at other
like the hybrid teas, hybrid perpetuals, x hybrida, Japanese anemones, in times: please contact Cindy Boyer
hybrid musks and some of the bourbons September. Sedum x ‘Autumn Joy’ will to make arrangements at
continue to flower into the late summer continue to change from its original cboyer@landmarksociety.org.
and fall. light pink to a deep rose as the nights get
cooler. And on more than one occasion During drop-in hours admission
Astilbes usually stand out in July although it is not unusual to see rose buds with a is free, with a suggested donation
last season they were right on the heels light dusting of snow. of $5 per person to support the
of the peonies as were the lavender and Garden. Group tours are $50
daylilies. The vagaries of Rochester’s So, what is the best time to visit Ellwanger minimum for up to 10 people,
weather almost guarantee that the plants Garden? Stop by and enjoy it multiple and $5 per person for any
will have slightly different “ideas” about times, to experience the highlights additional guests.
when they will bloom each year. throughout the season.

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