Tyler Rose Garden
— the country that taught itself to grow roses.
Not only on a wall.
Tyler Rose Garden, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Fourteen acres of beds and walks west of downtown Tyler, the largest municipal rose garden in the country. About 38,000 bushes across more than 500 varieties, planted on land the city set aside in 1952 after East Texas had spent half a century shipping roses to the rest of the country. The Texas Rose Festival has come the third week of October every year since 1933. Peak bloom is mid-April to early May and again in October. Admission is free. The beds are open every day. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden covers fourteen acres on the west side of Tyler, Texas, and is the largest rose garden in the United States. It holds about 38,000 bushes across more than 500 named varieties. The garden was dedicated in 1952 on the site of an older fairground after decades during which East Texas had become the country's largest commercial rose-growing region, supplying a majority of the field-grown rose bushes shipped in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. It is an All-America Rose Selections public test garden, one of a small number of public sites historically authorized to display new AARS varieties.
Tyler's roses bloom in two main waves. The spring flush runs roughly from mid-April into the first week of May, with the heaviest color the last week of April. A second flush comes in October, lighter than spring but timed to the Texas Rose Festival, held the third week of October every year since 1933. Summer heat shuts most varieties down to a few scattered blooms; November through February is dormant pruning season. The garden is laid out so the walks read well in both peak waves: hybrid teas along the central axis, climbers on the perimeter arbors, old garden roses and shrubs in the south beds.
Admission to the garden is free and the grounds are open daily from dawn to dusk. The adjacent Tyler Rose Museum, which holds Rose Festival gowns and the Queen's coronation regalia, charges a small admission and runs Tuesday through Saturday. Parking is on the south side of the garden, off West Front Street. The IDEA Garden, a separate volunteer-run teaching garden inside the grounds, demonstrates companion plantings for East Texas conditions. Peak-bloom weekends in late April and mid-October draw crowds; early mornings are quieter and read better in the slanting light. Camera tripods are welcome on the walks; the central gazebo is the most-photographed spot.
