What You Didn’t Know About Roses
August 11, 2008 at 9:38 am | In roses | Leave a CommentTags: anniversary, beauty, birthday, colors, date, death, floral, florist, flower, flowers, fragrance, love, meanings, mystery, romance, romantic, rose, roses, scent, Seminole, special, valentines day, wedding
There are so many flowers in the world. One of the most common flower that most people can easily identify is the rose.
It’s not surprising since the rose has been used for hundreds of years to convey feelings and to supply fragrance.
Did you know that besides being pretty to look at and lovely to smell, the rose has also been used as a security measure. Yes! Every rose has it’s thorn and has been used as security measures to keep intruders from entering areas they shouldn’t be. What a great addition to your security plan! Plant a rose bush under a window, near a fence or wherever you want to keep intruders from invading your privacy.
A rose is good for your health too! The rose hip is high in vitamin C and carries vitamin A, D, E in addition to the essential fatty acids, antioxidants and iron making it a very popular substance to people who are looking for a healthy lifestyle.
Most common of all, the rose is known for the feelings it conveys depending on the color. Here are some fun facts…
Red Rose: most commonly associated with love. Make a special anniversary or romantic date memorable by keeping this in mind…
- A dozen roses can represent the “dozens of ways I love you!”
- Two dozen (24) roses represents loving that person for every hour of the day
- Three dozen roses means you have feelings of love unlike any other
- Four dozen roses means unconditional love
Messages behind the red rose:
- Courage
- Respect
Other rose colors and their meanings:
- The white rose - innocence and virtue.
- The yellow rose - friendship, jealousy and infidelity
- The pink rose – grace, sophistication, elegance
- The burgundy rose – Beauty
- The blue rose – feeling of mystery
- The black rose – hatred and death
Something For Your Sweetheart This Weekend
June 20, 2008 at 9:22 am | In roses | Leave a CommentTags: appropriate, beautiful, birthday, buy, cake, cookies, date, dating, day, Etiquette, events, father’s, floral, florist, flower, flowers, food, formal, fragrant, funerals, gift, happy, holiday, holidays, ideas, life, lifestyle, live, love, lover, novel, of, online, outlet, plants, recognition, responsibilities, romance, romantic, roses, Seminole, shop, store, sweet, symbol, thank you, thinking, thoughtful, treats, unique, valentine, valentines day, weddings, you
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- The rose is a symbol of times. In fact, it’s the official National Floral Emblem of the United States.
- Leave it to the romantic French to be the ones to first deliver roses. It was in the seventeenth century that French explorer Samuel deChamplain brought the first cultivated roses to North America.
- Roses are truly ageless. Recently, archaeologists discovered the fossilized remains of wild roses over 40 million years old.
- The people of ancient Greece used roses to accessorize. On festive occasions they would adorn themselves with garlands of roses, and splash themselves with rose-scented oil.
Now that you’ve boned up on the history of roses – Impress your date this weekend!
Here’s to you being a romantic!
For The Romantic In You
June 19, 2008 at 9:17 am | In roses | Leave a CommentTags: appropriate, beautiful, birthday, buy, cake, cookies, date, dating, day, Etiquette, events, father’s, floral, florist, flower, flowers, food, formal, fragrant, funerals, gift, happy, holiday, holidays, ideas, life, lifestyle, live, love, lover, novel, of, online, outlet, plants, recognition, responsibilities, romance, romantic, roses, Seminole, shop, store, sweet, symbol, thank you, thinking, thoughtful, treats, unique, valentine, valentines day, weddings, you
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- The rose is a symbol of times. In fact, it’s the official National Floral Emblem of the United States.
- Leave it to the romantic French to be the ones to first deliver roses. It was in the seventeenth century that French explorer Samuel deChamplain brought the first cultivated roses to North America.
- Roses are truly ageless. Recently, archaeologists discovered the fossilized remains of wild roses over 40 million years old.
- The people of ancient Greece used roses to accessorize. On festive occasions they would adorn themselves with garlands of roses, and splash themselves with rose-scented oil.
Rose Trivia Week Continued!
June 18, 2008 at 8:59 am | In roses | Leave a CommentTags: appropriate, beautiful, birthday, buy, cake, cookies, day, Etiquette, events, father’s, floral, florist, flower, flowers, food, formal, fragrant, funerals, gift, happy, holiday, holidays, ideas, life, lifestyle, live, novel, of, online, outlet, plants, recognition, responsibilities, roses, Seminole, shop, store, sweet, thank you, thinking, thoughtful, treats, unique, weddings, you
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- The legend of the rose: The story goes that during the Roman empire, there was an incredibly beautiful maiden named Rhodanthe. Her beauty drew many suitors who pursued her relentlessly. Exhausted by their pursuit, Rhodanthe was forced to take refuge from her suitors in the temple of her friend Diana. Unfortunately, Diana became jealous. And when the suitors broke down her temple gates to get near their beloved Rhodanthe she also became angry, turning Rhodanthe into a rose and her suitors into thorns.
- Dolly Parton may be known for her music and theme park. But rose lovers know her for the orange red variety bearing her name.
- According to Greek Mythology, it was Aphrodite who gave the rose its name.
- While the rose may bear no fruit, the rose hips (the part left on the plant after a rose is done blooming) contain more Vitamin C than almost any other fruit or vegetable.
Bet You Didn’t Know…
June 17, 2008 at 8:54 am | In roses | Leave a CommentTags: appropriate, beautiful, birthday, buy, cake, cookies, day, Etiquette, events, father’s, floral, florist, flower, flowers, food, formal, fragrant, funerals, gift, happy, holiday, holidays, ideas, life, lifestyle, live, novel, of, online, outlet, plants, recognition, responsibilities, roses, Seminole, shop, store, sweet, thank you, thinking, thoughtful, treats, unique, weddings, you
- 1,000 years old is the age of the world’s oldest living rose. It presents itself on the wall of the Hildesheim Cathedral of Germany.
- The myth of white roses - it started with the Romans who believed white roses grew where the tears of Venus fell as she mourned the loss of her beloved Adonis.
- Myth also has it that Venus’ son Cupid accidentally shot arrows into the rose garden when a bee stung him, and it was the “sting” of the arrows that caused the roses to grow thorns.
- When Venus walked through the garden and pricked her foot on a thorn, it was the droplets of her blood which turned the roses red.
- The rose is New York’s state flower.
June Is National Rose Month
June 16, 2008 at 8:52 am | In roses | Leave a CommentTags: appropriate, beautiful, birthday, buy, cake, cookies, day, Etiquette, events, father’s, floral, florist, flower, flowers, food, formal, fragrant, funerals, gift, happy, holiday, holidays, ideas, life, lifestyle, live, novel, of, online, outlet, plants, recognition, responsibilities, roses, Seminole, shop, store, sweet, thank you, thinking, thoughtful, treats, unique, weddings, you
Did you know that June is National Rose month?
This week learn all you can about roses on our blog! You will get a new and grand appreciation for roses. You won’t want to miss a single blog!
Let’s get started!
Roses have been around for centuries and have inspired such things as love.
Did you know…
- People have been passionate about roses since the beginning of time
- It is beleieved that the floors of Cleopatra’s palace were carpeted with delicate rose petals
- Confucius had a 600 book library specifically on how to care for roses
- Shakespeare refers to roses 50+ times in his literary arts!
Stay tuned tomorrow for some more great information about roses. In the mean time. Check out the roses Seminole Florist has to offer you!
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