Update sent in by Eva Kiehl 4/13/05

 

 

..."On Sunday, Nov. 13, 1960 there was a ceremonial planting of 100 rosebushes in the City Hall Plaza in St. Louis."  No roses survive.  Someone in this area sent 250 rose bushes to a sister troop in Australia.

The Girl Scout Rose was also planted in the rose garden at Roosevelt Park, in Lohmont, CO, however, they tore the rose park up several years ago to renovate it. 

Bexar County in Texas had the Girl Scout rose planted in the yard of a church convent.  None have survived.

Found a contact in Oregon, none survived.

I thought surely there would be some in Juliette Low’s garden in Savannah.  None survived. I have been told that yellow roses do not survive their hot summers.

I did find one bush in New Mexico that seems to be hardy and has survived several hail storms.  From this bush a cutting was sent to a Rose Farm in CA.  Today I received an e-mail that the cutting did not make it this year. (2005)

I also contacted GSUSA and asked if there might be another rose to celebrate the 100th year of Girl Scouts and received this reply today………..

The possibility of offering another rose for Girl Scouts' 100th anniversary is currently being researched. A more definitive answer should be available as the event gets closer.

 

Update from Eva Kiehl, summer 2011

again this Spring, wrote to my contact who has the only GS rose, it seems.  Two years ago a stem got knocked off the original bush and he decided to see if he planted it, would it grow. 

 It has been several years and this year he said that stem is still alive and has bloomed.

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Ceramic Girl Scout Planters  |  Lou Henry Hoover Girl Scout Scholarship in Gardening 

Golden Eaglet Marigold  |  Brownie Scout Marigold  |  Girl Scout Rose

Girl Scout Daylily  |  Girl Scout Seeds and Things  |  Important Girl Scout Trees 

 Flowers of other Youth Groups  |  Forgotten Girl Scout Garden #1 - Girl Scout Memory Garden  |  

Forgotten Girl Scout Garden #2 - Aunt Helen's Herb Garden

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