The formal terraced Tulsa Rose Garden, designed by landscape architect C. Burton Fox and constructed by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) in 1934, was originally intended to feature a wide variety of blooming flowers among its geometric parterres but quickly was transformed into a municipal rose garden by the Tulsa Garden Club. The popular journal Better Homes & Gardens recognized the Tulsa Garden Club and the Tulsa Rose Garden with its highest community honor, the More Beautiful America Achievement Award, in 1937; additional national recognition came in 1938 from the American Rose Society and the New York Times, the latter of which called Tulsa’s municipal rose garden “remarkable.”

Shrub rose, 1992. Size: Medium shrub Height 5 feet Width 5 feet. Color: Medium pink. Bloom: Very double, 100+ petals, up to 4″ diameter. Successive flushes of bloom spring, summer, and fall. Fragrant: Moderate.