Roses and gardens9 cards: 6 firsts, 1 claimed first and 2 beginnings
Rose fields and nurseries, azaleas, the rose festival and its queens, and the municipal rose garden.
- The first recorded sale of rose plants near TylerThe Shamburgers of Pine Springs sold bushes for $1.50.
- The first train carload of rose bushes shipsBy the 1940s, more than half the nation’s rose bushes grew within ten miles of Tyler.
- Maurice Shamburger plants the first azaleas along Lindsey LaneThe start of Tyler’s azalea tradition, in a test garden.
- Margaret Copeland is crowned the first Rose QueenCrowned in 1933, the year of the first rose festival.
- The first rose festival opens in TylerOrganized in six weeks, with a parade and a Rose Queen.
- Live rose bushes fill the Rose Show for the first timeA formal “colonial garden” of more than 1,000 growing bushes.
- The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden officially opensNearly 3,000 bushes, donated by local nurseries.
- Viva La Rosa brings a quinceañera float to the Rose ParadeStarted by immigration lawyer Ginger Young.
- Budding roses on dog-rose stock, called a first for local nurserymenIt widened the varieties that could be grown.