Designing practical rose gardens that require less seasonal maintenance.
In 2017, after years of discussion and fundraising, the American Rose Society launched the ‘Great Garden Restoration Project’ – an ambitious 5 year plan to restore and improve the gardens at the American Rose Center by 2022.
The James Alexander Gamble Fragrance Award The April 2014 Queen’s Herald contained an article that listed the favorite fragrant roses for a good number of TRS members. Many roses were mentioned and all would be…
There are new roses of each type, each year – and many in recent years have been very hearty in our Northwestern US climate.
Monet’s garden was one of his biggest sources of his inspiration as a painter, so he created and managed the garden expansions himself with precise instructions for his 7 gardeners. He focused on engineering moments of light and color that would occur throughout the day by designing the locations of the flowers according to their colors: those of light colors, such as yellow or white, are placed in the most shaded areas of the garden – then the darkest flowers are placed in juxtaposition with the light ones. It came out in the paintings . . .
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