The Kathrine Dulin Folger Rose Garden displays a formal grid of nearly three thousand roses, framed by low boxwood hedges and stone paths that sit directly between the Smithsonian Institution Building and the National Museum of Natural History. It replaced a parking lot in nineteen eighty-eight, fulfilling a plan for a lush garden that dates back to the original Smithsonian layout. When the first lady of the time, Barbara Bush, dedicated the site, she famously cut the ribbon while holding a pair of golden shears.
Kathrine Dulin Folger Rose Garden
park garden
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