Awasome Mable Ringling Rose Garden At The Ringling References. Web don’t forget to explore the bayfront gardens, including the secret garden, where john and mable ringling are buried, and mable ringling’s rose garden. Web just north of the mansion is the mabel ringling rose garden.

Florida state university assumed governance of the museum in 2000. John and mable purchased more than 150,000 square feet of this property to build their holiday home in 1911. There was nothing like it in the sarasota of those days, a quiet enclave of 800 souls when the ringlings arrived.