The Historic Santa Cruz Rose Garden That Time Almost Forgot

Living museum or epic rose garden? You be the judge.

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Roses of Yesterday and Today is preserving ancient horticultural history, petal by petal. Quite literally.

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This historic Santa Cruz rose garden offers over 230 varieties of old, rare, unusual and selected modern roses to explore and has a celebrity fan club that is as impressive as it gets.

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Roses of Yesterday and Today’s rose garden in Santa Cruz County, California is a rose lover’s paradise!

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This is Guinivere (Jenny) and Jack Wiley, the gardeners behind Roses of Yesterday & Today.

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Hearing their personal tales of the garden, tapping into their knowledge, and reminiscing about Jack’s childhood helping his grandmother make the garden’s famous catalogs felt like a privilege that few people get to experience these days.

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time line of the rose garen

The rose garden was established by Francis E. Lester in the 1930s.

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1948 to 1957 Will Tillotson was the watchful eye and curator of the rose garden.

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Afterwards, the rose garden was in Dorothy Stemler‘s care until 1976.

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Patricia Stemler Wiley & Newton Wiley, ran Roses of Yesterday for the next 20 years until they retired.

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Since 1998, Jack Wiley and his wife, Guinivere (Jenny), have cared for the rose garden.

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What time of year is best to visit Roses of Yesterday and Today garden?

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While you could visit the rose garden any time of the year, to see the rose garden at its peak it is best to visit during May and June.

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