Portland Rose Garden's summer blooms are the result of year-round work | Oregon Field Guide

Follow a year in the Portland Rose Garden with a man who tended it for decades. Harry Landers worked for and curated Portland's famous International Rose Test Garden from 1989 to 2017. In that time, he increased the number of rose plants by more than 7,000. His army of volunteers tend the 650 varieties across 4.5 acres of blooms. Portland Parks & Recreation gets hundreds of new roses free every year from rose companies in exchange for providing research and evaluating which varieties grow best.

This story first aired on April 1, 2015.

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