Henry W. Minot

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Named after Henry W. Minot, a former member of Brookline’s Park and Recreation Commission and Tree Planting Committee, the garden was created in 1971. It is located within the 1.93 acre Winthrop Square, one of the original open green residential squares laid out by David Sears as he developed the Longwood residential enclave beginning in 1840. The Sears family donated all four Longwood squares to the town in 1902.

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324 rose bushes are planted in 12 beds and on the trellis. Each bed contains a single type of rose. The garden includes beds of, Floribunda, Hybrid Tea, Grandiflora, Shrub, David Austin English roses a brick planter with Polyantha roses and the Climbing roses on the trellis. Within each bed there is a great variety of rose forms and colors.

Painting by Jeanne Gray

The Trellis in the Larz Anderson Estate Vegetable Garden, early 1900’s. Photo courtesy Larz Anderson Auto Museum

The garden’s central feature, the climbing rose trellis, was moved from the estate of Larz Anderson

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70 different rose varieties.