历史沿革：从1909年购地到2013年百年纪念
半岛公园玫瑰花园（Peninsula Park Rose Garden）位于美国俄勒冈州波特兰市北波特兰区，1909年由市政府以6万美元从1908年债券基金购得，是波特兰首座公共玫瑰花园。园区由波特兰著名景观设计师 Emanuel L. Mische 规划设计，占地约2英亩的玫瑰园至今保留着最初的回廊式布局，1913年公园成为波特兰市年度玫瑰展的举办地，1917年华盛顿公园（Washington Park）的国际玫瑰试花园（International Rose Test Garden）启用后这一职能才正式迁出。玫瑰园内曾培育出波特兰市官方玫瑰”卡罗琳·特斯托夫人”（Mme. Caroline Testout），目前园内存有约5,700株玫瑰、75个品种，成为太平洋西北地区玫瑰栽培与展示的核心地标。
机构沿革：友邻会的成立与组织治理
2011年，三位 Master Gardeners 志愿者 Ann Gardner、Pat Frobes 和 Yvonne Boisvert 在看到园内杂草丛生、25年老玫瑰株日渐衰败后，发起保护倡议；2012年正式注册成立半岛公园玫瑰花园友邻会（Friends of Peninsula Park Rose Garden, 501(c)(3) 非营利组织，EIN 45-5207764），与波特兰公园与娱乐局（Portland Parks & Recreation, PPR）建立合作伙伴关系。友邻会的使命明确为”preserve, protect, and enhance”波特兰首座公共玫瑰花园，董事会下设志愿者协调、活动策划、玫瑰保育、宣传筹资等专项小组，会员与志愿者约60人长期参与、另有20人季节性支援。
核心活动：2013年百年重植与玫瑰保育
2013年玫瑰园百年纪念之际，友邻会与 PPR 联合发起重植计划，由波特兰国际玫瑰试花园前园长 Harry Landers 协助对接，Bailey’s Nurseries 与 Weeks Roses 捐赠了3,000余株抗病玫瑰新苗，PPR 工作人员 Mike Grosso（北/东北区主管）、Hillary Maurer（园内园艺师）带队清除老株、重新设计花床布局并挖好种植坑，再由200余名社区志愿者完成种植与维护，使花园面貌焕然一新。2016年友邻会与 PPR 联合发布《半岛公园玫瑰花园保护战略》，确立长期保育路线；园内专设35种以上的传粉者友好植物区（Pollinator Garden），围绕耐旱、抗病、低维护品种持续推进可持续园艺实践。
开放参观、志愿活动与社区教育
花园全年对公众免费开放，地址为美国俄勒冈州波特兰市 700 N Rosa Parks（位于 N. Albina 与 Ainsworth 街角），每年四月中旬起每周五上午9点至中午为春季花园维护日，6至8月每周一、三、五同时段为玫瑰摘心（deadheading）志愿时段。访客可在线访问「Rose Gallery」查看各品种玫瑰的高清图库，或下载「Garden Map」按图索骥；自2020年起友邻会与波特兰州立大学（Portland State University）公共历史系合作开展历史口述项目（History Project），出版教育展板，编撰涵盖1960年代至2022年公园历史的zine，向社区系统介绍这片公共花园所承载的城市记忆。
资金来源、合作伙伴与土地致谢
友邻会的运营资金来自个人捐赠、企业赞助、波特兰公园基金会（Portland Parks Foundation）项目拨款与会员费，年度春季募款（Spring Appeal）与秋季玫瑰义卖为重要补充；合作伙伴包括波特兰公园与娱乐局、波特兰苗圃（Portland Nursery）等本地园艺机构，以及东俄勒冈土地信托、社区多元族裔组织。机构在公开页设置完整的「Land Acknowledgement」，承认波特兰都市区坐落于 Multnomah、Wasco、Cowlitz、Kathlamet、Clackamas、Chinook、Tualatin、Kalapuya、Molalla 等原住民族传统村落之地，承诺作为这片土地上的访客与伙伴，持续尊重并支持原住民社区的文化与生态保育工作。
History: From the 1909 Land Purchase to the 2013 Centennial
Peninsula Park Rose Garden is located in the North Portland neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, United States, and was acquired by the City of Portland in 1909 for $60,000 raised through an 1908 bond measure, making it the city’s first public rose garden. The two-acre formal rose garden was designed by landscape architect Emanuel L. Mische in a Beaux-Arts symmetrical layout, and in 1913 the park was selected as the venue for Portland’s annual rose show, a role it held until 1917 when the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park took over that function. The garden once nurtured “Mme. Caroline Testout”, the official rose of Portland, and today holds approximately 5,700 rose bushes representing some 75 varieties, anchoring the Pacific Northwest’s heritage of public rose display.
Organisational History: Founding of the Friends Group
In 2011, three Master Gardeners volunteers—Ann Gardner, Pat Frobes and Yvonne Boisvert—visited the garden, found weeds knee-high in many beds and the quarter-century-old rose bushes past their prime, and decided the historic garden needed a citizen support organisation. In 2012 they incorporated the Friends of Peninsula Park Rose Garden as a 501(c)(3) non-profit (EIN 45-5207764) and entered into a formal partnership with Portland Parks & Recreation (PPR) to preserve, protect and enhance Portland’s first public rose garden. A self-sustaining volunteer programme now draws some 60 regular and 20 seasonal volunteers, supported by a board of directors overseeing volunteer coordination, rose care, events and fundraising.
Core Activity: The 2013 Centennial Replanting and Rose Care
For the garden’s 2013 centennial the Friends and PPR jointly replanted the beds, with assistance from Harry Landers, then curator of the International Rose Test Garden; Bailey’s Nurseries and Weeks Roses donated more than 3,000 disease-resistant rose bushes. PPR staff including Mike Grosso (North/Northeast Zone Supervisor) and Hillary Maurer (Garden Horticulturist) removed the old roses, redesigned the bed layout and dug planting holes, after which more than 200 community volunteers planted and established the new bushes. In January 2016 the Friends and PPR published the Peninsula Park Rose Garden Preservation Strategy, a long-term plan for horticultural care, structural maintenance, community engagement and fundraising; a drought-tolerant Pollinator Garden featuring more than 35 pollinator-friendly varieties surrounds the park perimeter.
Visiting, Volunteer Programmes and Public Education
The garden is free and open to the public year-round at 700 N Rosa Parks (corner of N. Albina & Ainsworth), Portland, OR 97217, United States. Spring maintenance volunteer days run every Friday from 9:00 a.m. to noon starting in mid-April, and peak-season deadheading shifts are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to noon between June and August. Visitors may consult the online Rose Gallery for high-resolution images of each variety or download a printable Garden Map; since 2020 the Friends have partnered with the Public History Department at Portland State University on the History Project, producing educational signage and a zine that documents lesser-known chapters of the park from the 1960s through 2022.
Funding, Partnerships and Land Acknowledgement
The Friends of Peninsula Park Rose Garden is funded by individual donations, corporate sponsorships, project grants from the Portland Parks Foundation, annual appeals, an autumn rose sale and member dues, and works in partnership with Portland Parks & Recreation, the Portland Parks Foundation, Portland Nursery and a broad cross-section of Portland’s community and neighbourhood organisations. The organisation publishes a formal Land Acknowledgement recognising that the Portland metro area rests on the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla and other tribes, and pledges ongoing respect for Indigenous communities past, present and future.
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