LINCOLN — The Fort Vancouver Rose Society tended the rose garden at Covington House on a damp morning on March 22. Eleven volunteers from the rose society spent several hours pruning roses, planting new roses and digging up weeds. Those volunteers included Bob Britt, Dan and Jan DeWeese, David and Julie Goggin, Pete and Maggie Mikalatos, Donna Peterson, David Pfaff, and Louis and Sally Rossetto.
All 11 of these volunteers were also at the Esther Short Park Rose Garden on March 12. On that day, it took three hours for these 11 and seven additional volunteers to prune and clean that public garden of spent rose canes, weeds and leaves. Those additional seven were Marian Anderson, Micki DuFort, Ron Eby, Fiona Neumann, Larry O’Leary and Jim and Detra Swanson.
The Covington House Rose Garden sits off Vancouver’s Main Street, just in front of historic Covington House. It boasts roses of many varieties, including hybrid teas, grandifloras, floribundas and Knock Out shrub roses. The volunteers replaced 11 roses toward refreshing the garden with new, healthy plants for the upcoming growing season. The city of Vancouver provided 10 of those roses and the rose society added another to complete the refresh of the garden.
