06/10/2026
Garden Tour: The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse Gardens
Sunday, June 7 | 10:00 a.m. to noon
1770 13th Street, Boulder
Join us for a morning at one of the most distinctive rose gardens on the Front Range. The Teahouse itself is a gift from Boulder's sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan — handcrafted by more than 40 artisans, shipped to Boulder in 200 crates, and assembled in 1998. That same year, the Boulder Valley Rose Society planted the rose garden that now surrounds it.
The garden is BVRS's Hardy Rose Demonstration Garden — around 45 varieties of own-root, cold-hardy, disease-resistant roses, designed by Eve Reshetnik-Brawner and Mikl Brawner of Harlequin's Gardens. It's been maintained for more than 25 years without chemical fertilizers, fungicides, or pesticides. It's one of the best living examples on the Front Range of what's possible with the right varieties and consistent care.
Volunteers from the Boulder Valley Rose Society will be on hand to walk the garden with us, talk through the varieties, and share what they've learned from a quarter century of tending the plantings.
If you'd like to make a morning of it, two nearby gardens are worth a self-guided visit afterward: the Colorado Shakespeare Gardens on the CU campus and Harlequin's Gardens just north of town.
Parking notes: there's a parking garage at 14th Street and Canyon Boulevard, and the lot behind the Teahouse is open to the public on Sundays. The Teahouse sits on 13th between Arapahoe and Canyon.
Free and open to anyone curious about roses, gardens, or the Teahouse itself. No RSVP needed — just come.
Thank you to our friends at the Boulder Valley Rose Society for hosting us.
