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  2. Roses in Portland, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Roses in Portland, Oregon. The city of Portland, Oregon, is ideal for growing roses outdoors due to its location within the marine west coast climate region, its warm, dry summers and rainy but mild winters, and its heavy clay soils. [1][2][3] Portland has been known as the City of Roses, or Rose City, since 1888, after Madame Caroline Testout ...

  3. International Rose Test Garden - Wikipedia

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    The International Rose Test Garden is a rose garden in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon, United States. There are over 10,000 rose bushes of approximately 650 varieties. The roses bloom from April through October with the peak coming in June, depending on the weather. [1] New rose cultivars are continually sent to the garden from many parts ...

  4. Portland Rose Festival - Wikipedia

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    The Portland Rose Festival is an annual civic festival held during the month of June in Portland, Oregon. It is organized by the volunteer non-profit Portland Rose Festival Foundation (named the Portland Rose Festival Association until the 2000s) with the purpose of promoting the Portland region. It includes three separate parades, along with a ...

  5. Rosa 'Madame Caroline Testout' - Wikipedia

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    Breeder. Joseph Pernet-Ducher. Origin. France, 1890. Rosa 'Madame Caroline Testout' is a bright pink hybrid tea rose, bred by French rosarian, Joseph Pernet-Ducher. The pink, fragrant rose has been a very popular rose worldwide since its introduction in 1890. It is recognized by the city of Portland as being an important contributor to its ...

  6. Portland Gold Award - Wikipedia

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    The Portland Rose Society began as an informal rose society in 1888, organized by Georgiana Pittock, wife of the first Oregonian publisher, Henry Pittock. The first rose competition was held in Pittock's garden. She had been inspired to form the gardening club after a holiday in England, where she toured rose gardens and attended a rose show.

  7. Nicknames of Portland, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    The official, [1] and also most common, nickname for Portland is The City of Roses[1][2][3] or Rose City. [4] The first known reference to Portland as "The City of Roses" was made by visitors to an 1888 Episcopal Church convention. [citation needed] In 1889, the Portland Rose Society was founded, and promoted the planting of 20 miles (32 km) of ...

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