Link: Coop Rose story
August 30, 2012
August 28, 2012
MILESTONE
I think it's working! I am so excited! As a novice with eleven starts and a hopeful heart, I think I made a Coop Rose! New growth is living on my stem cutting!
(Look Ron! We can do this!)
July 15, 2012
The Story of the Coop Rose
On Sunday, July 15th, at 1pm there is a ceremony at the Phillip Foster Farm in Eagle Creek, Oregon to commemorate the rediscovery of an historic variety of rose that was thought to be extinct.
In 1905 Portland threw a World's Fair to celebrate 100 years since Lewis and Clark. On opening day, June 1, 1905, the first couple thru the gate was given a bush of this rose variety that had been developed just for the fair and never made available commercially. Over the years all trace of this rose was lost and it was believed to be extinct. Just this week the Northwest Historical Rose Association confirmed that the rose was alive and well and lining our family's old farm. Reuben and Alma Coop, my great great grandparents, were that first couple thru the gates at the World's Fair and those "wild" roses filling the ditches at Gramma's farm weren't wild at all but descendants of that one bush.
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