Balboa Park Rose Garden Earns Special Recognition
The garden is maintained by the park staff, aided by the Rose Garden Corps (RGC), a group of about 45 volunteers.
The Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden in Balboa Park was inducted into the Great Rosarians of the World (GROW) Rose Garden Hall of Fame at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., on Feb. 2, during the annual GROW lecture series. The award was accepted by Dick Streeper, former president of the San Diego Rose Society, who was personally instrumental in creating the garden.
As a member of the Hall of Fame, the Balboa Park Rose Garden joins such illustrious gardens as the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden and the David Austin Rose Garden in Albrighton, England.
The garden, which has been enlarged over the years, currently displays approximately 1,600 roses of nearly 200 varieties on a three-acre site. In 1978 the garden was honored by All-American Rose Selections as the outstanding rose garden in the nation and in 2003 the World Federation of Rose Societies gave the garden its Award of Garden Excellence.
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