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for photos beneath his beloved ginkgo, suggests
that they not wait. After an early freeze one
year, the slow-growing, 30-foot tree shed its
golden locks in a single day.
Most who live in Tyler's historic neighborhoods
love sharing their surroundings. So much so, that
locals regularly Fling open front doors and garde;
rtt (f- historic Ir ines and gardens tours.
lie largest garden in the city, the 14-acre Tyler Munici-
pal Rose Garden dates to 1952 and welcomes visitors
year round. It takes center stage each October when
eye-poppiig roses-38,000 bushes and 500 varieties-
look their best during the annual Texas Rose Festival
(October 14-16.2010). Since 1933, the festival's elaborate parade,
Rose Queen's tea and coronation, and rose show have paid hom-
age to a rose-growing heritage born of disaster.
A century ago, droughts, freezes, and disease devastated the
area's peach orchards, and farmers turned to roses. By the 1950s,
some 200 growers in the Tyler area raised half the nation's roses.
Only a handful of growers remain, but local processors still ship
much of America's commercial rose crop, even though it's grown
mostly in Arizona and California. The Tyler Rose Museum, at the
Rose Garden, uses historical photos and videos to tell the story of
the growers who made Tyler roses famous. The 7,500-square-foot
museum also boasts Rose Festival memorabilia and hand-sewn,
bejeweled Rose Queens' costumes dating to 1935
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in a back corner of the garden.
"I call it the garden beyond the roses,' Sue Adee tells me
at the IDEA Garden (IDEA is an acronym for Innovate,
Demonstrate, Educate, and Apply). She's one of the Smith
County Master Gardeners who hold seminars and nurture
the 650 plant varieties packed into this 10,000-square-foot
horticultural bonanza. "There's color in the garden just
about all year," Adee says. "We want to show the wide-
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Mallory, Randy. Tyler Made: Historic neighborhoods, homes, and gardens remain traditional Tyler's stock and trade, text, 2010-10~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1924336/m1/3/?q=%222010%22: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.