International Pink Garden Test

LInternational Pink Test Garden (the international rosery of tests) is a Roseraie located in the Parc Washington at Portland in the State of the Oregon (the United States). She gathers more than 7000 Rosier S of 550 varieties approximately. The pink flower from April at October with a point in June, according to the weather conditions. New Cultivar S of rose trees veanant of many parts of the world is continuously received by the garden and is tested there for their color, their fragrance, their resistance to the diseases and various other characters. It is the oldest experimental rosery of the United States. It contributes to illustrate Portland cement the nickname, the “City of the pinks”.

Characteristics

The International Pink Test Garden has a surface of 18 km ² on several levels vis-a-vis the center town of Portland cement, with the river Willamette and East Portland. In clear weather, one can see the Chaîne of the Cascades, from which the Mont Hood is detached.

A Amphithéâtre accommodates many events during the year, mainly in the concerts of Classical music and some plays. Per good weather, the amphitheater attracts the picnickers and the players of disc stealing. The Queens Walk is a brick footbridge on a side of the garden where a bronze star honors each queen with the Fête of the pinks ( Pink Festival ) since 1907.

The Shakespeare garden included/understood at the origin of the botanical species mentioned in works of William Shakespeare. That was modified later on to limit the species of full light taking into account the important shade of the surrounding trees. There are a rectilinear footbridge, impeccable benches and plantations. The varieties of rose trees bear the name of characters of its parts. This garden is attended at the time of particular occasions, in particular the small marriages.

The Gold Medal Garden is a formal garden with the rewarded rose trees, of the footbridges, a central fountain and a gloriette. It is a place attended at the time of the marriages.

Rosarian Garden '' paid homage since [[1924] to the ambassadors of good will and the official hosts who officiate at the time of the manifestations of the Festival of the pinks. When a rosierist is adoubé , they adopt a variety of rose tree to its name. This garden in the garden contains many rose trees which became untraceable in the trade.

The garden of miniature pinks ( Miniature Pink Garden ) is one of the six of this type only being used as ground of experimentation with the American Pink Society . The plat bands raised at the entry are appreciated for their single varieties.

The shop of the rosery opened on May 1st, 2000.

A sculpture abstracted out of stainless steel, a water mirror and several fountains mix the styles traditional and modern. Each part of the rosery is different: varieties of rose trees, trees, ground, lawn.

The rose trees and the other plantations are looked after by a gardener throughout the year (two during the summer) and by many volunteers. Each year, the impassioned local ones voluntarily devote approximately approximately 500 hours to the garden.

History

In 1917, a group of Portland cement nursery gardeners had the idea to create an American rosery of tests. There were in Portland a group of impassioned volunteers and 30 kilometers of streets bordered of rose trees, essentially since the Lewis exposure & Clark of 1905. Portland cement was already known like the “City of the pinks” and that was only to reinforce its reputation. Between the Parks and Re-creation of Portland cement and the American Pink Society , the garden quickly became a reality.

Jessie Currey, president at the time of the Portland' S Pink Society (Company of the Portland cement pinks), launched a petition so that the city becomes during the First World War a sure harbor for the hybrid rose trees created in Europe. The amateurs of pinks feared that these single plants can be destroyed because of war. The foreign obtenteurs sent many countries of the rose trees to make them test and the garden had an immediate success. Nowadays, Portland is the only town of North America which can decree distinctions with the pinks of quality of the whole world.

See too

List of the roseries

References

Table at the entry dyu garden
http://www.rosegardenstore.org/irtg_faqs.cfm Pink Garden blind

Bond external

'' Portland Pink Society ''
'' Portland Parks & Recreation' S page ''