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Saturday, December 31, 2011

CALIFORNIA ROSE GARDENS

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Take time and smell the roses. Roses have been around for millions of years which just prove that roses are not difficult to grow. The Rose is also our National Floral Emblem and the state flower of several states.

While you are in California for the Rose Parade, make plans to see some of the rose gardens listed below. If you can not make it to California this time, make plans anyway to visit these rose gardens during the blooming season. You won't be disappointed.

A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden
555 Plaza Rubio
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 564-5437
www.sbrose.org

Christopher Greenwood Rose Walk of Fame
5702 Paseo Del Norte
Carlsbad, CA 92008
(626) 914-1091

Descanso Gardens International Rosarium
1418 Descanso Drive
LaCanada, CA 91011
(818) 790-7441
http://parks.co.la.ca.us

Exposition Park Rose Garden
3990 South Menlo Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90037
(213) 763-0114 x225
www.laparks.org/exporosegarden/rosegarden.htm

Fountain Square Rose Garden
6237 Fountain Square Drive
Citrus Heights, CA 95621
(916) 727-4910

Golden Gate Park Rose Garden
501 Stanyan St
San Francisco, CA 94112
(415) 666-7003
www.nps.gov/goga/

Inez Parker Memorial Rose Garden
Park Blvd., at Plaza de Balboa
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 235-1114
www.balboapark.org

McKinley Park Rose Garden
601 Alhambra Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95816
(916) 264-7316
www.cityofsacramento.org/parksandrecreation

Morcom Amphitheater of Roses
700 Jean Street
Oakland, CA 94610
(510) 597-5039
www.friendsofoaklandrose.org/

Pageant of Roses Garden
3888 S. Workman Mill Rd.
Whittier, CA 90601
(562) 463-4506

Pat Nixon Rose Garden at
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
(714) 983-9120
www.nixonlibrary.gov

Ruth & Allen Ziegler International Garden
City of Hope Medical
1500 East Duarte Ave
Duarte, CA 91010
(626) 256-4673
www.cityofhope.org

San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
Naglee & Dana Avenues
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 277-5422
www.sanjoseca.gov
www.friendssjrosegarden.org

South Coast Botanic Garden
James J. White Rose
26300 Crenshaw Blvd.
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
(310) 544-6815
http://parks.co.la.ca.us

State Capitol World Peace Rose Garden
Corner of 15th Street and Capitol Street
Sacramento, CA 95816
(800) 205-1223
www.worldpeacerosegardens.org
www.capitolmuseum.ca.gov

The Huntington Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
(626) 405.2100
www.huntington.org

Tournament of Roses Wrigley Garden
391 S. Orange Grove Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91184
(626) 794-4414
www.tournamentofroses.com

Watts Senior Citizen Center Rose Garden
1657 E. Century Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90002
(213) 485-1343
www.laparks.org/dos/horticulture/watts.htm

Westminster Civic Center Rose Garden
8200 Westminster Blvd.
Westminster, CA 92683
(714) 895-2876
www.ci.westminster.ca.us

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HISTORY OF THE ROSE PARADE

The annual Rose Parade and Rose Bowl football game is an all-American tradition on New Year’s Day. Long before the radio was invented much less the TV in 1890, members of the Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club wanted to celebrate the mild winter weather in California where roses were still in bloom in January. They were eager to tell the world about their paradise. They were from the East and Midwest who moved to California and discovered the nice mild winter weather in Pasadena. Dr. Charles Frederick Holder declared at a club meeting that “In New York, people are buried in snow. Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let’s hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise.”

The first floral festival on New Year’s Day was attended by more than 2000 people and was patterned after the Battle of the Flowers held in Nice, France. The festival included a modest procession of flower-covered carriages with afternoon games of foot races, tug-of-war contests, bicycle races, ostrich races, polo matches and other contest on the town lot. There was even a race between a camel and an elephant. The elephant won. Eventually, the contest was replaced by the best of college football. The town lot was then renamed Tournament Park in 1900. The first football game was played in 1902 between Stanford University and the University of Michigan with Michigan winning 49-0. Due to such defeat, the Association dropped football in favor of chariot races.

Then in 1916, football came back to stay. In 1920, a new stadium was built which the local newspaper called the Rose Bowl. On January 1, 1923, the Tournament held the first Rose Bowl game. Today, the festival starts with a parade that includes matching bands, high-stepping equestrian units and spectacular animated floats covered with million flowers from all over the world. Volunteers called petal pushers work hand in hand with professional designers to make this event a huge success. This was followed by the Rose Bowl where the championship collegiate football teams of the Pac-12 and the Big Ten conference meet for the showdown of the Granddaddy of them all.

In the early years, few teams arrived in flower decorated carriages which gave Dr. Holder the idea to change the name of the festival to “Tournament of Roses”. By 1895, the festival had gotten so big that it was difficult for the Valley Hunt Club to handle so the Tournament of Roses Association was formed. Today the Tournament of Roses Association headquarters is housed at an Italian Renaissance-style house, thanks to the generosity of the famous chewing-gum manufacturer, William Wrigley Jr. whose favorite pastime was watching the parade. The 18,500 square foot mansion designed by architect G. Lawrence Stimson with a 4-1/2 acres rose garden is located two blocks south of the starting point of the parade and was bequeathed to the city of Pasadena upon Mr. Wrigley’s death in 1958 with the stipulation that it be used as the Tournament’s permanent headquarters.

On Monday, January 2, 2012, the 123^th Rose Parade with the theme “Just Imagine…” starts at 8:00 a.m. (PT) followed by the 98^th Rose Bowl Game at 3:10 pm between the No. 10 ranked Wisconsin Badgers, champions of the Big Ten Conference, and the No. 5 ranked Oregon Ducks, Pac-12 Conference champions. From a humble beginning, the Rose Parade is now presented by Honda and expects to be watched by millions on television in more than 120 countries plus thousands of spectators along the parade routes. The parade will be broadcast on ABC, Hallmark Channel, HGTV, KTLA, NBC, RFD-TV and Univision. The Rose Bowl Game is presented by VIZIO and can be watched on ESPN.

The events take place on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 to avoid interfering with worship services on Sunday. J.R. Martinez, a retired soldier, actor and spokesman, will serve as the Grand Marshal of the 2012 Tournament of Roses festivities. This year, one of the judges is Lois Fowkes, an American Rose Society Judge from New York. As a New Yorker and a friend, I am very proud of her.

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