• Source: Reinisch Rose Garden and Doran Rock Garden

The Reinisch Rose garden" target="_blank">Garden and Doran Rock garden" target="_blank">Garden are gardens located in Gage Park, at 4320 SW 10th Avenue, Topeka, Kansas.




History


The rose garden" target="_blank">garden was designed by Chicago landscape architect Emmett Hill and landscape gardener L. R. Quinlan. The rose garden" target="_blank">garden was initially planned by landscape architect and horticulturist E. F. A. Reinisch in 1926. Following his death in 1929, the garden" target="_blank">garden was developed by the Topeka Horticulture Society, and opened in June 1930. The Doran Rock garden" target="_blank">Garden was completed in 1932.




Description


The Reinisch garden" target="_blank">garden features 400 varieties of roses with over 6,500 plants. It is one of 23 test gardens in the United States for hybridizers, and officially designated for its All-America Rose Selections. Peak blooming times are late May into early June, and early to mid-September. Adjacent is the Logan Test garden" target="_blank">Garden, and the Doran Rock garden" target="_blank">Garden, which is a naturalistic rock garden" target="_blank">garden containing a reflecting pool with a stone pedestrian bridge and cypresses, Japanese maples, willow oaks and flowering annuals.




In popular culture


The Reinisch garden" target="_blank">garden is mentioned in the 1997 Stephen King novel Wizard and Glass: "A sign just inside the arch proclaimed this to be the Reinisch Rose garden" target="_blank">Garden, and there were roses, all right; roses everywhere."




See also


List of botanical gardens in the United States




References

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• Reinisch Rose Garden and Doran Rock Garden
• Rose Garden
• Karl Menninger
• List of botanical gardens and arboretums in Kansas
• Topeka, Kansas
• Gage Park, Topeka