Annual Spring Rose Show ready to blossom
The Portland Rose Society will once again be hosting its annual Spring Rose Show during the city’s month-long Rose Festival.
Each year, the Portland Rose Society sponsors what has become the country’s largest and longest-running rose show. It is open to anyone who wishes to enter their roses. Judging by past shows there will likely be over 4,000 exquisite, fragrant blossoms on display and competing for trophies that proclaim their roses to be the best.
Local print shops are equipped to provide ribbons, plaques, and trophies at this sort of event.
The Portland Rose Society dates back to 1889 when the wife of Oregon’s first publisher, Henry Pittock, met with her friends and neighbors and formed it to propagate and promote roses throughout the city. For generations, the Society’s dream of displaying the finest roses has been nurtured. That one of Portland’s more prominent nicknames is “Rose City,” and that a month-long celebration honoring the flower has become an annual fixture, is a testament to the success of those ladies.
Participants from across the Pacific Northwest will converge on Portland with their flowers for the Spring Rose Show on June 6 and 7. The event, which has come a long way since its origins in Mrs. Pittock’s own King Heights garden, is free and will be held at the Lloyd Center Ice Rink.
Each year, the Portland Rose Society sponsors what has become the country’s largest and longest-running rose show. It is open to anyone who wishes to enter their roses. Judging by past shows there will likely be over 4,000 exquisite, fragrant blossoms on display and competing for trophies that proclaim their roses to be the best.
Local print shops are equipped to provide ribbons, plaques, and trophies at this sort of event.
The Portland Rose Society dates back to 1889 when the wife of Oregon’s first publisher, Henry Pittock, met with her friends and neighbors and formed it to propagate and promote roses throughout the city. For generations, the Society’s dream of displaying the finest roses has been nurtured. That one of Portland’s more prominent nicknames is “Rose City,” and that a month-long celebration honoring the flower has become an annual fixture, is a testament to the success of those ladies.
Participants from across the Pacific Northwest will converge on Portland with their flowers for the Spring Rose Show on June 6 and 7. The event, which has come a long way since its origins in Mrs. Pittock’s own King Heights garden, is free and will be held at the Lloyd Center Ice Rink.