Hamann Rose Garden - Lincoln, NE
N 40° 48.062 W 096° 40.933
14T E 695521 N 4519254
Hamann Rose Garden was created in the 1940's and features 123 kinds of roses. It is located at S. 27th Street & Capitol Parkway in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Waymark Code: WM17207
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2022
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Established in the 1940s, this garden was chosen as Nebraska’s first test garden and observed how 200 roses would survive in the local climate. In 1986 roses were proclaimed the Nation’s Flower, and we are proud to honor the flower by giving the rose a proper home in Lincoln. Throughout it’s decades of design, the garden has remained dedicated to providing an educational display of roses best suited for the region.
"The Lincoln Parks Foundation, the Lincoln Rose Society, and the City of Lincoln's Parks & Recreation Department, led the $350,000 campaign to renovate and restore Lincoln's only municipal rose garden in 2006. A generous donation from Don Hamann, owner of Sartor Hamann Jewelers, and an avid rose grower, helped kick this campaign off. The renovation was completed in 2008 and transformed the existing garden into two gardens: a formal display garden of cutting roses and an informal strolling garden of hardy landscape roses.
Hamann Rose Garden showcases many varieties of Hybrid Tea Roses, Floribundas, Grandifloras and mini roses in a formal setting of boxwood hedges, hardy perennials, shrubs, and evergreens. The garden features updated furnishings, ornamental lighting, a fountain, sculptural elements, public art pieces, and a pavilion at the south entrance."-
Hamann Rose Garden
From the inscription at the entrance to the Park:
Displays of roses have been grown in Lincoln's parks since the 1930s. Initially roses were grown in Sunken Gardens. The first municipal rose display garden was established at this location in Antelope Park in the early 1940's. The Lincoln Journal reported in May of 1944 that this garden included more than 3,000 rose bushes with blossoms of 200 different colors. In 1945, the Cornhusker Rose Society sponsored a project dedicating a portion of this garden to trial and display roses suited to the climate and growing conditions of Nebraska. Display of roses and companion plantings suited to growing in Lincoln continues to be an emphasis of the garden. A Second rose display garden was established in the northwest corner of Woods Park along O Street in 1960. The Woods park rose garden was consolidated with the rose garden in Antelope Park in 1993.
In 2006, the Lincoln Rose Society partnered with the Lincoln Parks Foundation to raise funds to preserve, renovate and enhance Lincoln's municipal rose garden. The newly renovated Hamann Rose Garden at Antelope Park was dedicated in 2008 thanks to the dedicated effort of the campaign committee and generosity of donors.