{"id":13,"date":"2026-02-27T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:14:12","slug":"rose-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/rose-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rose Garden<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">The UBC rose garden was\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">established<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0in 1949 and completed in 1994. The garden overlooks the Pacific Ocean and the North Shore Mountains. Due to its location, it is known as a place of celebration.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW64017884 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW64017884 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">Graduations, weddings, ceremonies, and student finding stillness can be found amongst the garden&#8217;s roses. Entering the garden, one can spot a grove of old-growth trees. The garden\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">contains<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0a variety of roses, with the most\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">common being<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0hybrid tea and floribunda roses that bloom from June to September.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW64017884 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW64017884 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">The UBC rose garden is situated on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people; therefore, it is crucial to unpack the colonial history that rose gardens carry. Rose gardens can also be understood as part of a colonial project, in which colonial empires used botany, such as roses, to assert control over land.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW64017884 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW64017884 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"SCXW64017884 BCX0\" \/><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">The UBC rose garden\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">participates<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0in this history through the hybrid flowers and roses that are not Indigenous to Musqueam\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">territory and<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0reproduces European aesthetics that mask the ongoing violence on this unceded land. In addition, the rose\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW64017884 BCX0\">garden&#8217;s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0placement\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">adjacent to<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW64017884 BCX0\">\u00a0the old growth draws on colonial ecological insertion on Musqueam territory.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW64017884 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose Garden The UBC rose garden was\u00a0established\u00a0in 1949 and completed in 1994. The garden overlooks the Pacific Ocean and the North Shore Mountains. Due to its location, it is known as a place of celebration.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Graduations, weddings, ceremonies, and student finding stillness can be found amongst the garden&#8217;s roses. Entering the garden, one can spot a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102734,"featured_media":14,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hiddenhistories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}