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The rose garden at Pt. Defiance Zoo in Tacoma in summer time offers gorgeous colorful blooms and wonderful scents. Rose gardens are a great way to discover which rose to plant in your garden.

What to Look for in a Rose?

A rose that has lush green leaves, seems devoid of disease such as black spot or rust, has well shaped flower buds and blooms in a public garden like the one at Pt. Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, is likely to be a good selection for your own garden. My experience with roses has been instructive. Roses with heavy blooms like the Austin roses will likely retain rain water and mold unless they are protected under a shelter. Roses that get black spot or rust easily often won’t survive for another year meaning you’re going to waste your money.

My favorite roses for the Renton area are the bush roses or the floribunda. Floribunda means many flowering and I typically find they bloom repeatedly throughout the summer, are relatively disease free and have long stems with the flowers showing many stages of bloom at the same time. This makes floribunda roses wonderful for flower arrangements. Look for floribunda varieties with scent if you usually tend to shop for tea roses.

Things to Look for in Public Rose Gardens Like the Pt. Defiance Zoo in Tacoma

Notice the pergola in the back of the picture. Look for how structure is used to make roses look their best. Pt. Defiance Zoo uses a variety of trellis, stakes, and other structures to make their garden really attractive. One of the nice things about this small garden at Pt. Defiance Zoo is you get a taste of beauty on your way to visiting the zoo.

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