Jenny Rose has authored several books including Glorious Shade, The Ultimate Flower Gardner’s Guide and her most recent, The Essential Guide to Bulbs. She masterfully displays bulbs all through her garden. In the fall she pots up dozens of terracotta containers with a myriad of tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinths and many other types of bulbs and slowly brings them out into the garden so that she has a provocative succession on potted bulbs in the subsequent spring. Next to her potting shed there is a display of about a dozen spring containers with cool season annuals and bulbs displayed in the style of an English “plant theater”. Throughout the garden are dozens of cultivars of tulips, daffodils, ornamental onions, Allium.
Her garden has become a demonstration garden of sorts. She has multiple pond and water gardens; a combination cutting and vegetable garden; many areas for children to explore gardening, an extensive rock garden and many arboretum-like areas.
Over the decades, Carey has championed horticulture in the Delaware Valley. Through her writing, lecturing and newsletter she is constantly promoting gardening in the Greater Philadelphia Area. She has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Temple University, Ambler for over a decade. She has also served as Director of the Ambler Arboretum and Director of PHS Meadowbrook Farm. She lectures and teaches on many garden subjects throughout North America. She is particularly passionate and dedicated to promoting women in horticulture.
If you know Jenny Rose Carey you know that one thing that is always consistent, she wears pink. On a recent visit with her I said, “Why pink?”. She said it is “happy, bright and cheerful,” which for me is the epitome of Jenny Rose.
