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Gardener's Focus: Rose Garden at its Peak

Roses are fleeting, but they’re amazing right now!

Join Jessica Bonilla, Hillwood’s head gardener, for this twenty-minute tour.

Tickets are distributed at the visitor center upon opening each day. A limited number of tickets may be pre-reserved by Hillwood members. This twenty-minute tour is limited to twenty and meets in the visitor center conservatory.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Jessica Bonilla is the head gardener at Hillwood. Joining the team in 2009, she and her staff are responsible for all aspects of garden upkeep. With nearly twenty years of experience, she started her career in commercial landscaping and in 2000 became head gardener at a private estate in Rochester, NY, where she also ran her own landscaping business. She currently lectures for both garden clubs and Hillwood volunteers, leads Hillwood workshops, and teaches the biology class for the Master Gardener program. She is a licensed pesticide applicator, a member of the Boxwood Society, and has a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Contracting from Penn State.