Surrounding the museum is a beautiful blue and white flowered Finnish garden, the centerpiece of which is the Juhannusruusu or Midsummer Rose brought back from Finland many years ago by the late Helga Korpela, one of Brantwood’s most famous Finn’s. As colorful as Helga was, the rose is not. It is a beautiful, fragrant single white rose that blooms within a day or two of the summer solstice or first day of summer. Because of the early spring the rose is blooming about three weeks early.
Juhannusrussuu/Midsummer Rose