Our final “Walk and Talk” of the season is all about Roses!

Roses have a long and colorful history, which has captivated our hearts and minds for ages. The cultivation of roses has been documented to exist over 5,000 years ago and to include their use in food, cosmetics, and medicine. In nature, the genus Rosa has some 150 species spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska to Mexico and including northern Africa.

The rose has infinite uses, not only as a symbol of love and romance, but as deeply respected medicine for its ability to balance disorders of the heart, both physically and emotionally. Please join us in the garden as we talk about Rose Water, Rose Oil, Rose Petals, and Rose Tea.

Antonia Viteri is an architect, landscape architect, and herbalist with certificates in Herbal Studies in California and from Alabama herbalist Phyliss Light of Arab.

The Walk and Talk takes place in Grandmother’s Garden. Located adjacent Birmingham HIstorical Society’s 1905 house in Sloss Quarters, where industrial workers once lived and raised their food amd medicine chest, the garden recreates a home garden of the early 20th century, the days before commercial fertilizers, hybrid seeds, and highly mechanized practices. Then and now, plots separated by gravel walks are laid out for a family’s vegetables, kitchen and medicinal herbs, fruits, and flowers.