On Saturday April 10, 2010 over 200 volunteers helped plant over 800 rose bushes at the Walnut Hill Rose Garden. Locate your dedicated rose bush by following our instructions here.

The theme in selecting the roses to be planted was "New Britain Comes Together". Seventy-five different varieties of roses type, color and fragrance were selected to represent the diversity of our community.

The list of roses planted are below. Please note: some roses were lost in shipping and their planting is pending receipt. Also, there are some roses planted as climbing trellis roses that are indicated to be in "all" quadrants.
Alphabetical by rose name
Numerical in planting order

You can see the layout of the design in numerical order here:

Overall color design layout is shown here

This layout was designed by Michelle Malinowski, a Friends of the Walnut Hill Park Rose Garden design committee volunteer. Her vision was to have waves of color variety with bilateral symmetry in the layout. Quadrants I & IV are mirrored in planting.Quadrants II & III are also mirrored. To commemorate the World War I monument, the first roses visitors will see when visiting the garden are deep red ones called Veterans Honor.

The four climbing rose trellis were designed by Brennan White of Kaestle Boos. See the original plans here. The trellis were constructed by East Side Welding and installed the week prior to planting with the generous help of Willie Pabon and New Britain Fence Co. and donation of material from Tilcon.

April 6, 2010