The Maplewood Rose Festival continued today with activities for children, information on urban gardening and composting, a home and garden tour and tours of the lower gorge of the Genesee River.

The Maplewood Neighborhood Association hosts the festival every June in Maplewood Rose Garden, at Lake and Driving Park avenues. The garden is part of Maplewood Park, which stretches for two miles along the river.

The stars of the show are 300 varieties of 5,000 blooming roses. Although they were just past peak bloom for this year’s show, the roses drew onlookers who searched for their favorite varieties — Peace, Starry Night, Betty Boop, Rainbow Knockout — and bent over to inhale their fragrance.

Tour-goer Rose Levin was pleasantly surprised by what she saw.

“I come to the festival every year, but I’ve never taken the gorge tour,” said Levin, 85, of Rochester. “I love it.”

source : www.democratandchronicle.com

by : Michael Zeigler