Roses have been cultivated for centuries in many lands. Today's gardener can choose from a wide selection, from old favorites to new examples of the hybridizer's art of the roses.
The rose is often proclaimed "queen of the flowers" by gardeners around the world!
And, there are only a few flowers that can make a better claim to the title!
What do you think about these beautiful and unique flowers!?
Roses are grown primarily for the beauty and the fragrance of their flowers.
Roses can be found in an astonishing array of shapes and sizes and almost every color of the spectrum.
The Chinese were probably the first to cultivate roses. Confucius wrote of the roses in the Imperial Garden.
Roses had been under cultivation in China for over two thousand years before China roses were introduced to the European market in the mid-eighteenth century.
Species of the genus Rosa have been identified almost everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, as far as Alaska, Norway, North Africa, and Mexico.
Fossilized plants over thirty millions years old have been linked to modern rose species.
Roses have been tended and enjoyed by generations of the modern-day gardeners.
Roses can illuminate our home, our heart, and it really lights our soul, brings happiness to us with simple beauty and the perfumes of the roses.
Steemit family, hope you have a peaceful, and lovely evening! :D
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@Supernova55