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Line 26: \| open = April 1 – October 31<ref name="visitors">{{cite web\|url=https://www.rose.org/visit-public-gardens\|title=Welcome to the American Rose Center: America's Rose Garden\|publisher=American Rose Society\|access-date=2020-05-31\|archive-date=2020-06-14\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614064031/https://www.rose.org/visit-public-gardens\|url-status=live}}</ref> }} The '''American Rose Center''' is a [[rose garden]] in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]] owned and operated by ~~[[American Rose Society\|~~The American Rose Society]]. There are over 20,000 rose bushes of 100 varieties in 65 separate rose gardens on 118 acres of [[pine\|pine forests]] and [[woodland]]s.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Fonseca \|first1=Mary \|title=Louisiana Gardens \|date=1999 \|publisher=Pelican Publishing \|isbn=9781455607761 \|pages=17–19 \|url=https://~~www~~books.google.com/books~~/edition/Louisiana_Gardens/~~?id=OF-kE2SxUh8C~~?hl=en&gbpv=1~~&dq=%22the+American+Rose+Center%22&pg=PA18~~&printsec=frontcover~~ \|access-date=31 May 2020 \|archive-date=18 September 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918035010/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Louisiana_Gardens/OF-kE2SxUh8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+American+Rose+Center%22&pg=PA18&printsec=frontcover \|url-status=live }}</ref> ==America's Rose Garden== The ~~Center~~center's Mission & Vision statement is "Presenting the Rose, America's National Floral Emblem, in a natural setting of majestic pines and companion plants - for pleasure, education, and for the preservation and understanding of the beauty and significance of our favorite flower, the Rose." The gardens feature roses of all types: the most modern hybrid tea roses, miniature roses, single petaled roses, heritage roses and species. The gardens are recognized as the largest park in the United States dedicated to roses. The American Rose Center has supported the development and use of sustainable growing practices that do not degrade the environment; the grounds include a test garden for disease-resistant Hybrid Tea roses to demonstrate that exhibition-form roses can be grown without chemical intervention.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Shanley \|first1=Pat \|last2=Wellan \|first2=Marilyn \|title=The Sustainable Rose Garden: A Reader in Rose Culture \|date=2011 \|publisher=Casemate Publishers \|isbn=9781612000428 \|pages=2–3 \|url=https://~~www~~books.google.com/books~~/edition/The_Sustainable_Rose_Garden/R3abFZd_qOEC~~?hlid=~~en&gbpv=1~~R3abFZd_qOEC&dq=%22the+American+Rose+Center%22&pg=PA3~~&printsec=frontcover~~ \|access-date=31 May 2020 \|archive-date=18 September 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918035023/https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sustainable_Rose_Garden/R3abFZd_qOEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+American+Rose+Center%22&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover \|url-status=live }}</ref> Annual events include<ref name="318forum" /> an Easter Egg Hunt, Evening of Wine & Roses, horticulture symposiums, Green Thumb seminars, Spring Bloom, Angel of Hope Candlelight and Healing Ceremony annually on December 6, and Christmas in Roseland. ~~held~~Christmas in ~~the~~Roseland ~~gardens~~has inbeen ~~December~~held ~~for~~every ~~the~~December ~~past~~since 35December ~~years~~1983.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ksla.com/2018/12/13/christmas-roseland-takes-over-american-rose-center-th-year/\|title='Christmas in Roseland' takes over the American Rose Center for the 35th year\|first=Maranda\|last=Whittington\|website=[[KSLA]]\|date=December 13, 2018\|access-date=May 31, 2020\|archive-date=December 14, 2018\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214001041/http://www.ksla.com/2018/12/13/christmas-roseland-takes-over-american-rose-center-th-year/\|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ksla.com/2019/12/11/christmas-roseland-returns-american-rose-center/\|title='Christmas in Roseland' returns to the American Rose Center\|first=Maranda\|last=Whittington\|website=[[KSLA]]\|date=December 11, 2019\|access-date=May 31, 2020\|archive-date=December 11, 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211154750/https://www.ksla.com/2019/12/11/christmas-roseland-returns-american-rose-center/\|url-status=live}}</ref> Rosie, a [[working dog]] and designated member of the staff, was used for several years to keep wildlife out of the gardens, particularly deer which can cause a lot of damage to the plants.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.ksla.com/story/32168122/stray-dog-protects-american-rose-center-gardens\|title=Stray dog protects American Rose Center gardens\|website=[[KSLA]]\|date=June 7, 2016\|access-date=May 31, 2020\|archive-date=June 9, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609115518/http://www.ksla.com/story/32168122/stray-dog-protects-american-rose-center-gardens\|url-status=live}}</ref> Line 46: ==American Rose Society== '''The American Rose Society''' (ARS) is a [[nonprofit corporation]] in [[Louisiana]]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.sos.la.gov/BusinessServices/SearchForLouisianaBusinessFilings/Pages/default.aspx\|title=Search for Louisiana Business Filings\|website=www.sos.la.gov\|access-date=2020-09-18\|archive-date=2020-02-13\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213081506/https://www.sos.la.gov/BusinessServices/SearchForLouisianaBusinessFilings/Pages/default.aspx\|url-status=live}}</ref> (formerly of Ohio<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/\|title=Ohio Secretary of State Business Search-Business Name\|website=businesssearch.ohiosos.gov\|access-date=2020-09-18\|archive-date=2020-09-16\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916195430/https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/\|url-status=live}}</ref> and Pennsylvania<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.corporations.pa.gov/search/corpsearch\|title=Search Business Entity ("The American Rose Society")\|access-date=June 1, 2020\|archive-date=August 20, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820235542/https://www.corporations.pa.gov/Search/corpsearch\|url-status=live}}</ref>) which owns the property of The American Rose Center.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.actdatascout.com/RealProperty/Louisiana/Caddo\|title=Caddo Parish, Louisiana Real Property Search - actDataScout\|website=www.actdatascout.com\|access-date=2020-09-18\|archive-date=2020-09-18\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918035039/https://www.actdatascout.com/RealProperty/Louisiana/Caddo\|url-status=live}}</ref> The gardens have been the home and national headquarters of the [[American Rose Society]] since 1974, when the non-profit organization moved from [[Columbus, Ohio]], and before that, from [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]. The Society was founded in 1892 in Harrisburg. According to the ARS bylaws,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.rose.org/board-materials\|title=ARS Bylaws (Revised 2018)\|access-date=June 1, 2020\|publisher=[[American Rose Society]]\|archive-date=September 18, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918035032/https://www.rose.org/board-materials\|url-status=live}}</ref> their objectives are: {{~~Quote~~Blockquote \|text="to encourage amateur and professional rose culture; to provide rose horticulture education for ARS members and for the public; to increase the general understanding of and interest in all aspects of roses, including but not limited to the history of roses, hybridization, growing, exhibiting, artistic designing and judging, research, and thereby to improve the standard of excellence of the rose for all people; to record, publish and establish priority on rose cultivar names, and rose cultivar ratings."}} ARS held its first [[rose show]] in 1900,<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Bowermaster\|first=Russ\|title=Judging: From Whence to Hence\|journal=The American Rose Annual\|year=1993\|pages=72–73}}</ref> and accredits judges for rose shows. Accreditation requires experience with growing roses, successful exhibition of roses, working as a show clerk, completing an accredited judging school, passing an exam, and apprenticing under an accredited judge.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Requirements to become a Judge\|url=http://scvrs.homestead.com/JudgeRequirements.html\|publisher=Santa Clarita Valley Rose Society\|access-date=June 1, 2020\|archive-date=February 3, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203165739/http://scvrs.homestead.com/JudgeRequirements.html\|url-status=live}}</ref> Line 100: {{DEFAULTSORT:Gardens of the American Rose Center}} ~~[[Category:Roses]]~~ [[Category:Botanical gardens in Louisiana]] [[Category:Protected areas of Caddo Parish, Louisiana]] [[Category:Geography of Shreveport, Louisiana\|Rose]] [[Category:Rose gardens in the United States]] ~~[[Category:Gardening]]~~ [[Category:Tourist attractions in Shreveport, Louisiana]]