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Garden Attractions In Portland

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Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. The city covers 145 square miles and had an estimated population of 647,805 in 2017, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest. Approximately 2,424,955 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area , making it the 25th most populous MSA in the United States. Its Combined Statistical Area ranks 18th with a population of 3,160,488. Roughly 60% of Oreg...
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Garden Attractions In Portland

  • 1. International Rose Test Garden Portland
    The International Rose Test Garden is a rose garden in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon, United States. There are over 10,000 rose bushes of approximately 650 varieties. The roses bloom from April through October with the peak coming in June, depending on the weather. New rose cultivars are continually sent to the garden from many parts of the world and are evaluated on several characteristics, including disease resistance, bloom form, color and fragrance. It is the oldest continuously operating public rose test garden in the United States and exemplifies Portland's nickname, City of Roses. The garden draws an estimated 700,000 visitors annually.
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  • 2. Portland Japanese Garden Portland
    The Portland Japanese Garden is a traditional Japanese garden occupying 12 acres, located within Washington Park in the West Hills of Portland, Oregon, United States. It is operated as a private non-profit organization, which leased the site from the city in the early 1960s. Stephen D. Bloom has been the chief executive officer of the Portland Japanese Garden since 2005.
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  • 3. Lan Su Chinese Garden Portland
    Lan Su Chinese Garden , formerly the Portland Classical Chinese Garden and titled the Garden of Awakening Orchids, is a walled Chinese garden enclosing a full city block, roughly 40,000 square feet in the Chinatown area of the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. The garden is influenced by many of the famous classical gardens in Suzhou.
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  • 4. Hoyt Arboretum Portland
    The Hoyt Arboretum is located atop a ridge in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, United States. The arboretum is located two miles west of downtown Portland within Washington Park, and close to the Oregon Zoo, and the International Rose Test Garden. The Arboretum is open to the public and accessible at several points from Washington Park or from the Wildwood Trail from Forest Park.
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  • 5. Washington Park Portland
    Washington Park is a public urban park in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. It includes a zoo, forestry museum, arboretum, children's museum, rose garden, Japanese garden, amphitheatre, memorials, archery range, tennis courts, soccer field, picnic areas, playgrounds, public art and many acres of wild forest with miles of trails. Washington Park covers more than 410 acres on mostly steep, wooded hillsides which range in elevation from 200 feet at 24th & West Burnside Street to 870 feet at SW Fairview Blvd. It comprises 159.7 acres of city park land that has been officially designated as Washington Park by the City of Portland, as well as the adjacent 64-acre Oregon Zoo and the 189-acre Hoyt Arboretum, which together make up the area described as Washington Park on signs and maps.
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  • 6. Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden Portland
    Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden is a botanical garden located between Reed College and the Eastmoreland Golf Course in southeastern Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. The garden, at Southeast 28th Avenue and Woodstock Boulevard, covers 9.49 acres , is named for the numerous springs within the garden. Crystal Springs Garden features more than 2,500 rhododendrons, azaleas, and other plants in a setting of small lakes, paved and unpaved paths, fountain, and small waterfalls.The garden is open daily from dawn to dusk year round. From March 1 through September 30, an admission fee is charged Tuesday through Sunday during the hours of 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The project began in 1950 as a rhododendron test garden on a site previously covered with brush, blackberries, native trees, and the re...
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  • 7. Peninsula Park and Rose Gardens Portland
    The city of Portland, Oregon, has more than 10,000 acres of public parks and other natural areas, including one of the largest municipal parks in the United States, Forest Park. Many are managed by Portland Parks & Recreation . One of the smallest—at 61 centimetres in diameter—is Mill Ends Park. There are at least 279 parks and natural areas in Portland. The development of Portland's park system was largely guided by the 1903 Olmsted Portland park plan.
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  • 8. Elk Rock Garden Portland
    Elk Rock Gardens of the Bishop's Close are located on a hillside estate overlooking the Willamette River in Dunthorpe, Oregon, in the United States. Peter Kerr started the gardens in 1916 on a 13-acre estate that passed to the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon after his death in 1957. The estate includes a manor house and other structures, and is open to the public.Magnolias and other native and non-native trees, shrubs, and plants grow in the gardens. Dunthorpe is an unincorporated community on the west side of the Willamette south of Portland and north of Lake Oswego along Oregon Route 43.
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  • 9. Rose Garden Children's Park Portland
    The city of Portland, Oregon, has more than 10,000 acres of public parks and other natural areas, including one of the largest municipal parks in the United States, Forest Park. Many are managed by Portland Parks & Recreation . One of the smallest—at 61 centimetres in diameter—is Mill Ends Park. There are at least 279 parks and natural areas in Portland. The development of Portland's park system was largely guided by the 1903 Olmsted Portland park plan.
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  • 10. Beverly Cleary Sculptures at Grant Park Portland
    Beverly Atlee Cleary is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful living authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of Cleary's best known characters are Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse.The majority of Cleary's books are set in the Grant Park neighborhood of northeast Portland, Oregon, where she was raised, and she has been credited as one of the first authors of children's literature to figure emotional realism in the narratives of her characters, often children in middle class families.She won the 1981 National Book Award for Ramona and Her Mother and the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw. For her lifetime contr...
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  • 11. Leach Botanical Garden Portland
    Leach Botanical Garden is a 16-acre botanical garden located in outer southeast Portland, Oregon, near S.E. 122nd Avenue and Foster Road. It was acquired by the Portland Parks Bureau in 1972.
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  • 12. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Boothbay
    Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in Boothbay, Maine. Opened in 2007, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens invites visitors of all ages and abilities to create and to explore meaningful connections to plants and nature at their own pace. The Gardens has been named one of Maine’s top attractions . Its gardens and landscape include nearly a mile of tidal saltwater. As the largest botanical garden in New England, the Gardens comprises 295 acres, 17 of which are gardens featuring native plants of Maine and other plants suited to northern coastal conditions. Yearly, the Gardens sees on average 200,000 guests from throughout the United States and 63 foreign countries.
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