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The Morcom Amphitheater of Roses – originally known as the Municipal Rose Garden – is one of the grandest city rose gardens in the country. It began as a project of the Oakland Businessmen’s Garden Club in 1930 and the main force behind it (and the later Berkeley Rose Garden) was Dr. Charles Vernon Covell, a dentist and member of the Garden Club.
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The Morcom Rose Garden has thousands of exotic roses that are in bloom from Mother’s Day in May through October 31st. The Amphitheatre of Roses in the garden is an enchanting location for weddings and renewals. Visitors will see winding walkways, a reflecting pool, graceful stairways and fountain cascades.
Opened in the late 1920s, this eight-acre municipal rose garden features more than 6,000 rose bushes of all varieties. Bloom season is late April through October. Visitors will see winding walkways, a reflecting pool, graceful stairways and fountain cascades. The Morcom Rose Garden has thousands of exotic roses that are in bloom from Mother’s Day in May through October 31st.The Amphitheatre ...
- 700 Jean St, Oakland, 94610, CA
- (510) 238-3420
The Morcom Amphitheater of Roses, created in 1932 as a WPA effort, is nestled in an almost hidden "bowl" on the Oakland/Piedmont border. You will enjoy its classic and classy vibe as you slowly move from bush to bush and stop to smell the heirloom roses - many of which actually DO smell "old school" delicious.
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- 700 Jean St, Oakland, 94610-1459, California
Designated. 1980. Reference no. 45. Central reflecting pool and cascade of steps. The Morcom Rose Garden (formerly the Morcom Amphitheater of Roses) is located in a residential neighborhood (the Rose Garden neighborhood [1]) in Oakland, California, near the Piedmont border. The street address is 700 Jean St., Oakland, CA 94610.
141 reviews and 888 photos of MORCOM MUNICIPAL ROSE GARDEN "This is a pretty rose garden. It has a cascading man-made waterfall and lots of roses. There is also a relecting pool with some surrounding grass that perhaps you may want to sit on. It's a fairly large garden, nice for a stroll with that special someone during the afternoon.
- 700 Jean St Oakland, CA 94610
Oakland Tribune - Sun - Jun. 5, 1932. The Morcom Rose garden was originally called the Morcom Amphitheater of Roses, reflecting one of the key design elements conceived by Arthur Cobbledick, the Landscape Architect who created the garden plan in the 1930s. Fortunately Arthur’s son Bruce Cobbledick, a garden activist in Oakland, donated the ...
