 The third club to join the Club and Society Beds portion of HSBG was the
Seattle Rose Society, which is developing the area just east of the Paradise Garden. The space is a beautiful, fragrant public gathering place suitable for celebrations of every kind, as well as a teaching and working border where local rosarians give demonstrations on selection, cultivation, and care.
 The garden is maintained by a team led by Lori White of SRS and
Lonnie Garceau of
the Valley Rose Society. Members of other local rose societies are encouraged to join us!
The roses are maintained organically, and the only products applied to the roses
are
Messenger, compost, and love.
A central turf area, planted and maintained by the
City of SeaTac Parks Department, is flanked by a dual colonnade of concrete columns donated by
Secret Garden Statuary. Soon this framework will be surrounded by mixed borders featuring a variety of the best roses for Puget Sound gardens. The roses are in, and companion plantings will follow as funding permits. A decorative seatwall will eventually surround the lawn, and donors are sought for this portion of the project. This multipurpose gathering space plays host to around a dozen
weddings a year.
 Directly north of the lawn is a fountain also donated by Secret Garden Statuary. It anchors a smaller "room" of mixed borders, arbors, and arches draped in climbing roses. The arches, modeled after those at the
Monet Garden,
were designed by Greg Butler and fabricated by Ron Klein of Klein Art/Fab.
 At the opposite end of the space is a display of SRS's top 20 hybrid Tea Roses for Puget Sound Gardens. This planting is updated frequently to showcase the most disease resistant, floriferous, and carefree hybrid tea roses for our area.
The design was completed by a
team including former SRS President Lori White and local landscape designers
Nikki Fields, Debbie Caton, and Greg Butler.
For more
information about SRS, visit their web site at
www.seattlerosesociety.org.
To volunteer at the Rose Garden, contact Markus Burdine at
206-391-4003.
To reserve the Rose Garden for a wedding, please visit our
Weddings page
The Seattle Rose Society Garden and the Highline Botanical Garden Foundation are grateful for the support of the following:
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