"A Kiss For a Rose"

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"A Kiss For a Rose"

Updated April 24, 2011

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The beginning of spring, the season of flowers. It is that time of the year when the frozen earth begins to sprout the first signs of verdant life once barren branches show off leaves.

Rose Meaning

Rose, a common name for a medium-size family of flowering plants with many important fruit and ornamental species. Worldwide in distribution, the rose family contains about 107 genera and 3,100 species.

In the United States, some 20 million rose plants are commercially cultivated annually for cut flowers, and some 40 million plants are produced for landscape and ornamental use.

One cannot think of spring without imagining roses and all the other colorful and fragrant blooms that one can ever imagine. One can buy them on certain times, especially when there is a special occasion. Flowers may be a luxury, but they are one of the nature's gifts that must be savored and enjoyed as much and as often as possible says a floral artist.

Rose myth

Rose have always fascinated lovers throughout known history. William Shakespeare is the famous writer who prominently mentions the rose in his work. The English playwright mention roses at least fifty times in his different writings. The oldest rose in the world is found at Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany. According to rose lovers it is reputed to be about 1,000 years old. It's been reported that archeologists have found the fossilized remains of wild roses. The age of fossils is at least 40 million years old!

Why is the rose red?

According to myth, the original color of the rose was not red, it was only when Venus walked through a garden and pricked her toe on the thorn, that the droplets of her blood turned the roses red.

Why are some roses white?

The origin of the white rose can be found in myth. White roses came from the tears of goddess. Romans believed white roses grew where the tears of Venus fell when she lost her beloved Adonis. The white roses is said to be her tribute to Adonis.

How did the rose gets it's name?

According to the myth, it was the goddess Aphrodite who gave the rose it's name.

How did the rose gets it's thorn?

According to Roman myth, a beautiful woman named Rodanthe, who was being chased by her many suitor, sought refuge in the temple of the goddess Diana. The goddess grew jealous that a mortal could have many suitors. Diana then turned Rodanthe into a rose and her suitors into the roses's thorns.

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra was into roses. It is been said that the floor of Cleopatra's palace were carpeted with delicate rose petals. The queen become Julius Caesar's lover.

The ancient Greeks were also fascinated with roses. They used roses as accessories. On special days or events, they wore garlands of roses and even used the rose as a sort of perfume, splashing themselves in a rose-scented oil.

Different colors of roses

Roses play an important role in expressing one's love. From conveying the message of intense love to innocent infatuation, the different colors of the rose make it the ideal way of making someone feel loved.

Rose colors and meanings