Apply to get married at the Rose Festival’s Grand Floral Parade Published: Apr. 10, 2025, 11:35 a.m. One couple will get married during Portland's Grand Floral Parade this spring.

To grow these cutting garden flowers in your garden, she recommends planting them about 30cm apart in full or partial sun. They cope with drought – "so an ideal plant for today’s climate," she adds.

Sharon McLeod-Askelson was often better known as the "Rose Gal," so much so that the license plate of her car displayed the nickname. ... Askelson, treasurer of the dahlia society, ...