On
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, the New York Botanical
Garden held the
Rose Garden Dinner Dance, a celebration of the beauty of the rose
and the Garden's stunning display in its autumn bloom. The
evening began with cocktails in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden,
followed by dinner and dancing in the Garden Terrace Room.
The Dinner honored Eliot Nolen and Roly Nolen, whose long-standing support
of horticulture, plant science, and education has benefited the Botanical
Garden in myriad ways for nearly a quarter of a century. Most visibly,
they provided a significant leadership gift toward the construction
of the state-of-the-art Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections,
the largest behind-the-scenes glasshouses for plants at any botanical
garden in the nation.
In addition, this year's event commemorated the 20th Anniversary
of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, which now features more than
3,000 plants and 600 varieties of roses. Brand-new beds of floribundas
grace the center aisle, providing an interesting range of heights.
Spectacular new varieties add depth to the collections that were
started last year.
The event proceeds help to maintain and build the Rose Garden collection,
and support the curators' continued care and development of
one of the world's premier rose venues. This event attracted
300 members of the Garden's extended family, and raised more
than $700,000 to support the collection.
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