amylsacks' photos with the keyword: water lily

I can't tell you the precise date this fold-out was printed. I've driven or bused by the gardens' one-time locale a million times, but never saw them. They were torn down in 1968, twenty years before I ever set foot on the West Coast. Apartment buildings are in the space now. You can read a newspaper piece about Lambert and its founder (and see more pics) at: johnrsweet.com/David/andrewlambert.html

"Each year Portland's Rose Festival Queen and her royal court visit the Lambert Gardens Rose Court-- dedicated to all Rose Festival Queens. The Queen leaves her royal foot print embedded in concrete for posterity."

"The verse on this card is inscribed on a bronze plaque which stands in the center of a slate flagging terrace which overlooks one of the long Perennial Gardens." Shown slightly larger than actual size.

"This arbor of brilliant scarlet roses shades a walk which leads from the Rose Court to the Sunken Garden and to the terrace of the spacious pergola." Shown slightly larger than actual size.