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PHOTOS: Bethlehem's Rose Garden
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Pamela Ruch, Rose Garden horticulturist, tends to some roses. (Will Oliver)
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A bee finds a home on a rose. (Will Oliver)
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Roses peek through. (Will Oliver)
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Winter Sun roses. (Will Oliver)
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Flowering Thyme with Sweet Alyssum close by. (Will Oliver)
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Bachelor's Button plants stand at attention. (Will Oliver)
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Peggy Martin roses cover an arbor trellis. This plant is most notable for its survival of Hurricane Katrina. (Will Oliver)
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A bee leaps from a catnip plant. (Will Oliver)
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A bee takes flight near some Penstemon plants. (Will Oliver)
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Visitors were out and about in the Rose Garden on Saturday, as the farmers' market took place nearby. (Will Oliver)
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Horticulturist Pamela Ruch takes a look at a chart laying out some of the garden's plant types. (Will Oliver)
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A colorful spread from Bethlehem's Rose Garden. Gladiator Alliums stand tall in the right portion of the photo. (Will Oliver)
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Residents check out the spread as blue Bachelor's Button perennials stand nearby. (Will Oliver)
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A bee lands on a Lauren's Grape opium poppy. (Will Oliver)
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The Rose Garden sits at 8th Avenue and West Union Boulevard in West Bethlehem. (Will Oliver)
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