Roses from Portland

[F4lconF16]

From the International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon.

Full resolution album here: https://imgur.com/a/4kPnL

There were a ton of different flowers. I'm posting too many pictures as it is, and these aren't even a tenth of the variety that was there.

The colors appear vivid in some of these, but I think that's my camera having problems. The roses were actually that saturated, but my phone washes out the detail:

















Some had very delicate detailing:













I liked the colors I got on these:













These had cool insides:









These were huge roses. The ones below were about 7-8 inches in diameter.







An overview of a small part of the garden:







I'm not really a fan of the camera on the Samsung Galaxy S5. It's sharp at times, but only if it's held absolutely still. It gets blurry and grainy quickly. However, at times it works pretty well. I think the last picture is the best shot I've gotten on the phone.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. lovely - remarkable garden. We were there in 2006 - loved it!

Went Portland to Mt St Helens to Astoria, took our time down the coast to Yachats, cut across to Mt Hood area, Trout Lake WA, then back to Portland - took over a week, could have done it for a lifetime!

[Trajan]

3. Sounds like a great loop trip ...

I love this wonderful state ...

[elleng]

2. Great!

I dare not post mine (today, anyway!)

[Trajan]

4. Wonderful pictures ...

I live a few blocks away, and I don't go as often as I should ... GOTTA get up there !

Thanks for the pics ...

[Mira]

5. I'm drooling

Fabulous experience and very special captures. I like that there is no excess sunlight to blow out the photos. Your last one, you are right, is phenomenally lovely, not just the blossoms, also the greenery. Some of your single roses are also breathtaking, i.e. 9/10/11 counting upward from bottom.

I'm very happy you showed these.
It makes me reminisce of an afternoon I got to spend on the island of Mainau in the Lake of Constance in Switzerland. Your third photo, counting up, is exactly what I saw there in the walkways and the abundance. Except they were all Dahlias. And you got to vote for your favorites, and might have won 50 000,-- Euros. I put in my mother's name as the recipient should I win.
She died. Probably because she did not win.

Thanks for these.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. These are gorgeous.

I love the red ones with the yellow inside, the seventh one down.

Roses don't grow here so well except for the wild varieties.

My husband just came back from Oregon tonight. He was in Eugene for a few days for the Prefontaine track meet, something that had been on his bucket list for some time.

[Scuba]

7. A wonderful venue (I visited in 2005) and great pics. Thanks F4lconF16.

[mnhtnbb]

8. What a gorgeous rose garden!

Thanks for posting!

[kickysnana]

9. We visited my Dad's cousin in Portland about 1969. I remember the roses. Thx. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I love rose porn!

Spend way too much time drooling over roses on the puter.
Thank you for the lovely pics.

[MerryBlooms]

11. Spectacular!

Here's one of my little beauties from Beaverton before I moved to the Chicagoland...

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PNW lends itself very well to rose growing.