Walnut Hill Rose Garden

11/22/2025

Our Fall Clean Up event will be tomorrow at 10 am due to the rain. Volunteers are needed to prune the roses and prepare the Garden for winter. We hope to see you then!

06/07/2024

Come up and visit our garden. The roses look spectacular!

04/21/2023

HELP NEEDED TOMORROW 4/22 @ 9am - 12pm: We will be planting 40 replacement rose bushes, which we received as a donation from Star Roses. Please bring garden gloves and tools, if you have them. Water, coffee, and snacks will be provided to volunteers. Please come and bring your friends with you!

06/07/2022

Volunteers are needed to prep the Garden for the annual Rose Garden Festival coming up soon. Please help us w**d today June 7th at 2 pm and Wednesday, June 8th from 5-7 pm. Your help makes a BIG DIFFERENCE!

06/02/2022

Come and see the beauty of the roses in first bloom. This is the time of year that all the volunteer work really shines. Take a stroll, stop for a sniff and pull a w**d when you see one. Our garden is almost 100% volunteer maintained. And don’t forget your camera!!!

03/30/2022

The UCONN Master Gardener program has been a supporter of the Walnut Hill Rose Garden since its inception. Please consider supporting their fundraising efforts TODAY with a $5, $10, or $20 donation if you can. https://givingday.uconn.edu/o/university-of-connecticut-32/i/uconn-gives-2022/s/uconn-extension-master-gardeners?fbclid=IwAR2Q1hth-C9sPvhuXdvxnLGwiV20W_FFuixrn03wMNcxHXauMSFOLA_P8XE

The Master Gardener program is implementing online classes, updated content and enhanced communications methods to provide research-based information and assistance through classes, clinics, and workshops along with the community-building value of hands-on experience.

07/21/2021

Thank you to Colleen Breilly for sharing this video from the New Haven Camera Club's visit to our Rose Garden.

The park was designed in 1870 by renowned landscape architect, Frederic Law Olmsted, and is only 1 of 5 locations in Connecticut listed on the National Regis...

06/04/2021

The Rose Garden festival is coming up on Sat., June 19 from 5 to 10 pm... Many food trucks , two great bands, liquid refreshments and lots and lots of roses and great people

04/13/2021

Join us this Saturday April 17 9am - 12pm to prepare the Rose Garden for the growing season. Learn how to prune winter damage and clean up for spring! Dress for a mess and bring your own tools to help. Don’t forget your mask!

10/24/2020

Walnut Hill Park Rose Garden In New Britain Closing For the Year, Needs Volunteers
The Board of the Walnut Hill Park Rose Garden in Walnut Hill Park in New Britain, CT will be closing the rose garden for the year on Saturday, November 21, from 9 am to noon, weather permitting. Lots of volunteers will be needed for this date. Please bring gloves and any utensils like rakes and other tools you may have. Refreshments will be served.

06/19/2020

Hope to see you tomorrow (6/20). We will be pulling w**ds and enjoying the blooms from 9 am - noon!