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It’s Almost Time for the Portland Rose Festival

May 18, 2017

The annual Portland Rose Festival takes place this year from May 26th to June 11th, in Portland, Oregon. The flower-filled event will give tourists and residents the chance to enjoy parades, marathons and, of course, roses like never before.

The festival’s floral show highlights more than 4000 blossoms in total, so there will be plenty of chances to stop and smell the roses. The beautiful buds and blooms are back again this year as an opportunity for the public to gather in celebration of nature, and to come together in support of diversity and unity.

Bringing Tradition Into Modern Times

“Brilliant” is the theme for this year’s Portland Rose Parade, and there’s no doubt that the displays and the entire experience will be brilliantly planned and delivered. This event, which has been part of Portland’s culture for more than a century, has roots in tradition but it offers contemporary programming.

During the first decade of the 20th century, the city of Portland’s leaders aimed to claim their spot on the map by branding their destination as the “summer capital of the world.” They did this by attracting visitors with the first Rose Festival. More than 100 summers later, the event is award winning, famous and a premier community involvement opportunity, as citizens take part in volunteerism and environmentalism.

Activities for the 2018 Portland Rose Festival

This year’s Portland Rose Festival will feature:

  • Parades
  • Waterfront concerts
  • Fireworks
  • A Fleet Week show
  • Marathon runs and walks
  • An Auction
  • A Golf Championship
  • The Annual Rose Show

The Annual Rose Show is the 129th annual spring Rose Show and it’s free to attend. Rose growers from all over the Pacific Northwest participate and trophies go to entrants who grow the most beautiful roses.

You can learn more about events and activities happening at the Portland Rose Festival by visiting the festival’s website.

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Visit the Portland Rose Festival this May and June

May 5, 2016

Portland residents – or anybody visiting Portland from late May to early June – the Portland Rose Festival is coming and you won’t want to miss it!

The Portland Rose Festival is an annual tradition in the “the City of Roses.” The event features thousands of blooms each year to admire and purchase, as well as fun activities that can be enjoyed throughout the course of more than two weeks.

About the Portland Rose Festival

The Portland Rose Festival takes place this year from May 27th to June 12th, and it’s a celebration of a beloved flower that takes over many areas of the city. For more than 100 years, the Portland Rose Festival has entertained residents and visitors to the city, offering great ways to appreciate the rose and bring it’s beauty even more into the spotlight than it already is.

The grand Portland Rose Festival is the second-largest rose festival in the United States. It features three parades, activities for three full weekends, and many community involvement opportunities that focus on the rose and on how beautiful it is for people to come together.

This year’s Portland Rose Festival’s theme is “Excessive Celebration,” which seems fitting considering that the festivities for this event will include dozens of things to do and see like dancing, fireworks synced to music, a “fun and wacky” illuminated Starlight Parade, a Starlight After-Party, and more.

There’s an all-children parade as well as traditional Chinese dragon boat races going on at the Portland Rose Festival, and there will be ship displays from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and the Canadian Maritime Forces as part of Portland’s “Fleet Week.”

The Details

The 2016 Portland Rose Festival will offer Opening Songs and Blessings, the revealing of the 2016 Rose Festival Court, rides, cultural events, special food vendors, dances, and more as festival-goers of all ages have a splendid time at various venues throughout the city of Portland (all with roses as the highlight).

There are events and activities for everyone, so visit the Portland Rose Festival website to learn more and to schedule your Portland trip around the fun!

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The National Cherry Blossom Festival is Coming to Washington D.C.

March 10, 2016

What began as a simple flower ceremony on March 27th, 1912, when First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, planted the first two trees from Japan on the north bank of the West Potomac Tidal basis, has turned into a national treasure. The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. now sees more than a million attendees each year who come to enjoy the beauty of the cherry blossoms and to gather in the spirit of community.

The Festival

The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a beloved annual tradition that includes two weeks of viewing thousands of cherry trees, in full glorious blossom, and enjoying activities like a parade, Japanese street festival with performances and food, and much more. Washington D.C. locals and tourists come to the Festival each year to admire the cherry blossoms, have a bit of fun, and participate in events that represent the arrival of spring in the nation’s capital.

The History of the Festival

The first cherry trees planted, in 1912, were part of a gift of 3,000 cherry trees given to the United States by Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki. The trees were reciprocated with a gift of flowering dogwood trees from the U.S. to Japan.

Even though the National Cherry Blossom’s seeds were sown in the early 20th century, the first official Festival did not take place until 1935. In 1927, a group of Unites States school children re-enacted the first planting, but civics groups’ sponsorship of the Festival in 1935 confirmed it as an annual tradition.

In 1965, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson accepted 3,800 more cherry trees. In 1981, Japanese horticulturists were given cuttings from the Washington D.C. trees to replace some of their trees that were destroyed in a flood in Japan. The 1994 Festival was the first two-week festival. The festivities were expanded and stretched out to accommodate a rapidly growing activity schedule during the trees’ blooming.

To learn more about the Festival, you can visit the official National Cherry Blossom website. You’ll be able to view peak bloom dates for the cherry blossoms, which on average is April 4th, and find out about all of the activities that will take place as part of the festival.

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Spring Brings the Epcot International Flower Festival to Walt Disney World Resort

March 10, 2016

The annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival returns this year to celebrate flowers with themed events and gorgeous displays in Walt Disney World Resort. The event again will feature interactive areas for kids, the popular Flower Power Concert series featuring live music, and much more.

Where

Walt Disney World in Orlando is where you’ll find Epcot’s celebration of Spring, as an assortment of flower-focused experiences take over the theme park. Events bursting with floral abundance as backdrops, and sights and scents that are meant to amaze, will be happening in gardens, restaurants, and other spaces within the Walt Disney World Resort.

When

The Epcot International Flower Festival events take place from early-March until mid-May. During these three months, you’ll find many things to do and see on weekdays, but weekends is when the Festival really comes alive with gardening gurus and outdoor nature-themed exhibits scheduled nearly all day long.

The Events

Throughout the unprecedented three months of the Epcot International Flower Festival, there will be farm-fresh flavors to explore in Epcot dining areas, live concerts in gardens, brilliant blooming displays all around, outdoor kitchens featuring culinary tasting events, topiary exhibitions (living sculptures shaped like beloved Disney characters), garden guided tours, kids’ play areas, and more.

The Epcot International Flower Festival welcomes guests to enjoy festivities for one day or for many days. Events for 2016 will begin on March 2 and end on May 15th. Disney will spring to life with flower marketplaces and so much more, so be prepared to spend many hours at these fabulous events. Disney artists have painted the Disney World Resort with a rainbow of colors, all in flower form, for guests to enjoy as they participate in events that are unlike anything at any other flower festival in the world. Epcot admission is required to attend the International Flower Festival, but most flower and gardening programs are included with admission.

 

To find out more about the Festival, visit the Epcot International Flower Festival’s website.

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Georgia’s International Cherry Blossom Festival Coming This March!

March 10, 2016

Georgia’s International Cherry Blossom Festival will bring a series events to Macon, Georgia, during March, to celebrate the beauty of a pink and white-blossomed tree that symbolizes springtime in the United States. Beginning on March 1st, Macon will host several contests, concerts, and plant sales – among other fun things activities – in honor of the beloved cherry blossom.

Macon, Georgia – according to Congressional Records – is considered the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World. Every March, more than 300,000 Yoshino cherry trees burst with blossoms that seem to turn the city into one big cottony paradise. Cherry Blossom Festivalgoers will get to experience the spectacle as they participate in events meant to promote fellowship and city pride.

The History of the Georgia International Cherry Blossom Festival

The International Cherry Blossom Festival is one of the top flower events in the United States, one of the Top 20 Events in the South, and one of the Top 100 Events in North America. Since it began, 56 years ago, it has enhanced the lives of citizens living in Macon and gathered locals in a sense of civic pride.

As a secondary mission, the Georgia International Cherry Blossom Festival has always sought to share the quality of life and community spirit of Macon with visitors, as residents welcome guests to come join them in fun Festival festivities. The Festival’s humble beginnings allowed for a three-day celebration, but today the Georgia International Cherry Blossom Festival lasts the entire month of March and it includes hundreds of events for all ages and backgrounds.

The Cherry Blossoms

The Yoshino cherry trees in Macon keep growing in numbers as the Fickling Family Foundation continues to donate thousands of trees to Macon-Bibb residents annually. This generosity keeps the floral abundance flowing and makes it possible for the beauty of the cherry trees to be enjoyed by locals and tourists year after year.

The Events

This year, the Georgia International Cherry Blossom Festival will include a Youth Photography Contest, Ceelo Green Concert, Indigo Girls Concert, Master Gardener Plant Sale, Pink is the New Green Cherry Blossom Event, Cherry Blossom Men’s and Senior’s Golf Tournament, Cherry Blossom Road Race, Lantern Lighting in 3rd Street Park, and Cherry Blossom Organ Night, among other events.

To find out more about the Festival, visit the Georgia International Cherry Blossom Festival’s website.

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