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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Stop and Smell the Roses!

If you have not had an opportunity to visit Oakland’s Marcom Rose Garden this spring, or if you have never visited it, now is a good time.  It is an oasis of more than seven acres of fragrant rose bushes near Lake Merritt, located at the end of Jean Street just off Grand Avenue. The Marcom Rose Garden is nearly 80 years old, and is the East Bay's oldest and largest public rose garden.  I visited the garden on May 2, and here is a selection of roses that I photographed.

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All That Jazz
Rose Shrub
Marcom Rose Garden













  
Timeless
Hybrid Tea Rose 
Marcom Rose Garden













Julia Child
Floribunda Rose
Marcom Rose Garden












Fragrant Cloud
Hybrid Tea Rose
Marcom Rose Garden














Princess Alice®
Floibunda Rose
Marcom Rose Garden 













Dick Clark (Patent Pending)
Floibunda Rose
Marcom Rose Garden