The roses are beautiful year-round. The grounds are meticulously maintained and rose bushes labeled. You can park on the street and walk in but drop off the children with a chaperone before you park.
The Francis Meilland is the most amazing smelling rose - find it's location on the alphabetically listed map and hunt it down! Oh, and the gardens are gorgeous in general... Great photo ops to be had.
Beautiful flowers and no charge to get in! Would be a great place to have a romanticpicnic or to sit on a bench and read a good book. And I love the Shakespeare garden!
I cannot believe this place is free to the public. It is unbelievably beautiful with roses of all colors and scents. Great date location with views of Portland and Mt Hood.
Opened in 1917, the garden houses over 7,000 rose plants of approx. 550 varieties. It's the oldest continuously operating public rose test garden & exemplifies Portland's nickname 'The City of Roses'.
Really beautiful overlook near Pittock Mansion where you can lounge in the grass and see Mt. Hood if it's out. Also there are tennis courts and Japanese gardens, if you get that far.
You can see Mt. Hood from the garden (not showing up in this photo). The harp player is nice. Some take blankets and snacks and lay out in the evenings.
Soon after its opening in 1917, European horticulturists began to send samples of their finest hybrids to this garden for safekeeping from the fires of World War I. (From Aerial America) Baca selanjutnya
Did you know? During World War I, out of fear that unique rose hybrids would be lost to the bombings in Europe, hybridists abroad sent plants to Portland to keep them safe. Baca selanjutnya
The Shakespeare Garden, built in 1945, was originally intended to contain only those trees, flowers and other plants which appear in Shakespeare’s plays, but now contains roses named after the charact Baca selanjutnya