Washington Park in Portland, Oregon.

It's a pretty funky place.

It's built into the hillside.

And you can just spend a lot of time wandering around and kind of stumbling into things.

Things like maybe a zoo or an amphitheater.

Or perhaps you take one turn and you come upon this enormous rose garden.

I remember just walking down the stairs and being like, whoa, where am I?

You know, like, I don't even know what's going on.

I'm smelling things.

I'm, like, there's so many colors.

That was my first experience coming to the rose garden before I even got this

role. This is Rachel Burlington. She's the curator of this garden, meaning she spends her time

making sure that all of these roses are happy. And there are a ton of roses to keep happy.

We have over 10,000 roses, individual rose bushes, and we have about 625 varieties.

So we have striped ones.

We have pink ones.

We have bi-color ones.

We have little ones.

We have big ones.

We have virtually every type of rose you can think of. When I first started learning about the garden, I kept

running into this story about how it had gotten started. And the story goes, it goes back to

World War I. Europe is being torn up by this horrible conflict.

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