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ENTERTAINMENT
The Rose Garden at Peninsula Park in north Portland.
New Roses for Peninsula’s Garden
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Landmark
prepares for
100th birthday
Portland Parks & Recreation and
Friends of Peninsula Park Rose Gar
den have launched a special project
to remove and replant approximately
3,000 roses on the lower level of the
north Portland landmark.
The project is the first in a series
of events that PP&R, the Friends
group, the Piedmont and Humboldt
Neighborhood Associations, and
neighboring communities are host
ing to celebrate the park’s 100-year
birthday next year in June.
“The roses currently in place may
look good at a casual glance,” says the lifespan of roses varies widely,
Portland Parks & Recreation Botanic from just a few years to up to 60,
Specialist John Reed. “But they are depending on conditions, care, en
stressed by diseases and pests like vironment, and ability to take root.
The roses to be replaced do not
the destructive rose midge.”
The existing roses at the garden, include any specialty or heritage
planted about 25 years ago, are de flowers.
PP&R will draw on volunteers,
teriorating and showing signs of
the Friends of the Peninsula Rose
stress.
New roses will be planted in early G arden, and em ployees to help
2013 and will consist of healthier, with rose rem oval, bed prepara
disease-resistant roses that require tion, and planting to further keep
low pesticide use and are easier to public costs to a m inim um, while
m axim izing the long-term enjoy
maintain.
Varieties will include hybrid tea, m ent for all.
If you have an in te re st in
floribunda, grandiflora, and climber
roses to ensure the colors and fra volunteering or future planting
em ail
grances of the garden remain true to e ffo rts ,
Ste ve. Pi xley @ portlandoregon. gov
the original design.
PP& R’s horticulturists note that or penrosegarden@gmail.com.
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