Question: What city in Texas is known as the “Rose Capital of America”?
Answer: Tyler. Its 14-acre Municipal Rose Garden is the largest in the United States, boasting 38,000 rose bushes of more than 600 varieties. The Texas Rose Festival draws more than 100,000 visitors every October. Its events include the Rose Parade, the Queen’s Coronation at UT Tyler, and the Queen’s Tea in the Municipal Rose Garden.
At the height of the city’s rose-growing industry in the mid-20th century, some 200 nurseries shipped between 10 and 20 million plants a year. Today, one-third of the world’s processing of rose bushes is done in Tyler.