Get ready for another memorable SDRS Pilgrimage! It’s been six years since we’ve been to the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden in San Marino, so it’s high time for another fabulous day enjoying the wonderful rose garden, the other beautiful gardens, the library and the art museum.
Here’s the plan for this SDRS tradition, thoughtfully coordinated, as always, by Sue Streeper. It will be a day of fun, friends and roses to cherish!
Our Sun Diego charter bus loads from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. in southern section of the parking lot at Observation Point in Balboa Park, which is next to the old Balboa Naval Medical Center and the San Diego Veteran’s Memorial Building. (The nearest intersection for your navigation is President’s Way and Park Blvd. Go south into the parking lot from there). We will leave promptly at 8:00 a.m.
We should arrive at the Huntington about 10:30, and we can spend some time in the three-acre rose garden.
We also anticipate getting to spend a little time visiting with Tom Carruth, the Curator of the Huntington’s Rose Collection, whose name you will also recognize as the hybridizer of many of your favorite roses. He was in charge of hybridizing at Weeks Roses from 1988 to 2012. Rose varieties among the over 150 we owe to his talents include ‘Julia Child,’ ‘Marilyn Monroe,’ ‘Memorial Day,’ and ‘Rock and Roll.’ Information about Tom Carruth on HelpMeFind.com includes a citation from a 1998 Dick Streeper article called “Queen Maker” that was published in “Rose Ramblings” and “American Rose” Magazine; the article referenced Mr. Carruth’s first All-America Rose Selections winner in 1997, ‘Scentimental.’ Other roses that we all know among his 11 total AARS winners include those listed above, ‘Fourth of July’ and ‘Betty Boop.’
We’ll be able to explore all that the Huntington has to offer until about 3:00 p.m., when we’ll be homeward bound, with return to Balboa park about 6:00 p.m.
The cost of this trip will be $99 per person, which covers the bus ride, your Huntington admission and lunch. Adding to the value of this amazing time, the bus ride will feature both snacks and a restroom!
Reserve your place in the fun now! Email us to RSVP as soon as possible: sandiegorosesociety@gmail.com