The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden officially opens
The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden officially opened in 1952 with nearly 3,000 bushes donated by local nurseries.
The city had acquired the land in 1912, and the garden was designed as a WPA project in 1938; the city puts the federal grant for the park and rose garden project at $181,255.
Its 2019 National Register nomination calls it the largest municipal rose garden in the United States by size and number of roses, more than 38,000 in spring 2018; in 1960 it ranked second to the Columbus, Ohio, Park of Roses.
Note
“Largest” is the nomination’s word, and its count is from the spring of 2018.
Sources
- Tyler Morning Telegraph, 2025-09-06: Tyler Rose Garden’s Nationally Recognized Reputation Draws over 100,000 Visitors Each Yeartylerpaper.com
- Garden Club of America: civic project 680 (Tyler rose garden)gcamerica.org
- KTRE, 2021-01-25: Mark in Texas History: Smith County Rose Industryktre.com
- Visit Tyler: Tyler Rose Gardenvisittyler.com
- Living New Deal: Tyler Municipal Rose Gardenlivingnewdeal.org
- Tyler Morning Telegraph, 2026-05-18: 93rd Texas Rose Festival Queen Joins Community for Rose Sunday Service Celebrating New Bloomstylerpaper.com
- Wikipedia: National Register of Historic Places listings in Smith County, Texasen.wikipedia.org
- National Register nomination: Tyler Municipal Rose Garden (NR 100003539, 2019; THC Atlas)atlas.thc.texas.gov
It is the largest municipal rose garden in the United States, in terms of its size, and its vast number of roses
more than 38,000 on the property when last counted in the spring of 2018
When Frohman and Elliot published with book in 1960, the Tyler Rose Garden was second only to the Columbus (Ohio) Park of Roses
Checked October 15, 2026. How the cards are filed