Roses at the Portland International Rose Test Garden

Of course, I loved this boxwood hedging!

If I were an outstanding Master Gardener, this would be on the West Side of my house. However, I must be content with photo's of another garden. The miserable, long Winter, the disgusting Stink Bugs and heaven knows what else has taken a terrible toll on my Roses. All of them. I have weak and spindly stems, small leaves and no blooms. One of the Knock Out Roses, a beautiful pink one....dead, gone, never to be rejuvenated.

Many roses had name plaques and this one is 'Whisper', a hybrid tea rose with classically formed flowers of creamy white.

My Yellow Roses, like this one seems to be gone as well. I am still watching and waiting.

I don't have this one, wish I did it is a beauty. Just look at the size.

Portland has long had a love affair with roses. In 1888, Georgiana Burton Pittock, wife of publisher Henry Pittock, invited her friends and neighbors to exhibit their roses in a tent set up in her garden; thus the Portland Rose Society was established.

Just look at how lovely this garden is.

Madame Caroline Testout was a late 19th century French dressmaker from Grenoble, the proprietor of fashionable salons in London and Paris. She regularly purchased silks from Lyon, which was an important center for rose breeding.

And these.

'Lagerfeld' is a highly fragrant grandiflora with a unique lavender color.

I have never seen this one.

The Full Tour Here. Thank you Martha Stewart!

Nice little diversion between projects. I am in the process of un-sewing a section of the Sunnyside quilting. I found a pucker, a big one, on the back, too much to steam out or ignore. Grrrrr...... One of these days I will complete this quilt. It is getting a little cloudy over here on the Sunnyside of the street!!

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Roses at the Portland International Rose Test Garden

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