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Rose Garden Restoration Club

Rose Garden Restoration Club

  • Student raking a garden bed
    The L&C Rose Garden Restoration Club is entirely student run, with alumni helping out as advisors.
  • Sophie and Jennifer posing in front of an L&C cart.
    Sophie Abbassian BA ’25, a Rose Garden Restoration Club founder, poses with her mother and club advisor, Jennifer Huenink BA ’91, JD ’94.
  • Student recobbling the edge of a garden bed
    The club's work includes recobbling the edges of the garden beds.
  • Dog in the rose garden
    Some volunteers prefer to dig in the soil with their paws instead of tools!
  • Close up of a yellow rose.
    Some of the garden's roses are decades old and still alive!
  • View of rose garden
    The rose garden has been part of the Fir Acres Estate since it was first built in the late 1920s.
  • Historic picture of a student walking in the lush rose garden with a book.
    The garden was once home to 17,000 roses and produced several Rose Festival grand prize-winning roses.
    Watzek Library Special Collections and Archives
Rose Garden Restoration Club



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