Yes, sadly the beautiful 9 acre garden area is for sale so if you want to visit it do so soon, but fortunately he will continue selling roses by mail order retail and wholesale.

The Announcement of Changing Times at ARE ...

oh, no ! I didn't read my email when it came in. How sad !! I'm glad I was able to visit both of them when I did, and shopped a lot at the San Antonio location. I hope someone else with the vision will take it over and provide gardeners with a lovely place to visit .

i've paid some nice sums to visit various gardens and would be happy to pay to visit ARE also

hope someone buys it and keeps it going

I hope so. Seems the ARE land in San Antonio was purchased for some sort of manufacturing purpose and was not going to be kept as a setting for wedding/convention events for which it was developed by ARE as well as a rose and plant nursery. The Becks or Gardenville would know since they are right next door.