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Rose (public) Garden
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
Catalog: Printed and Online. Newsletter available.
931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway or Thomas Jefferson Foundation Post Office Box 316 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 United States
USDA Zone: 7b (5 to 10 F / -14.9 to -12.3 C)
(434) 984-9822 [Information]
[From A Heritage of Roses, by Hazel Le Rougetel, pp. 21-22: Thomas Jefferson wrote] in his Garden Book (1766-1824, Reprinted Philadelphia, 1985)... seedlings of the 'Sweet Briar' were planted in 1767... By 1782 Jefferson was keeping a calendar of his blooming plants, recording a crimson dawrf rose in flower from 20 May to 25 July and noting that it was a species... 'Cherokee Rose' ( R. laevigata) [was] grown at Monticello from seeds sent to Jefferson in 1794 by Governor Milledge of Georgia.
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