Roses are grown and loved the world over by professional landscape architects, as well as amateur gardners.

Roses date back to forty million years.
The ancient roses that we still find today have simple flowers with single petals and very many thorns.

Roses are divided into two categories. old roses and new or modern roses.

The old roses bloom once a year, and tend to be very fragrant.
A thousand years ago the Chinese painted their silks with old rose designs.
The Romans used rose petals to carpet their floors.
Persians grew roses for decoration, and the Muslims cherished the yellow rose, which was unknown in Europe until the 10th Century.

At the end of the 18th Century four roses were introduced into Europe from China. Modern roses were cultivated after 1867.

In the 19th Century, the Empress Josephine established her famous rose garden in France, at Malmaison. She cross bread her roses,
and cross breeding of roses became an art the world over.
Most modern roses bloom all summer and many are much hardier than the old roses.

Roses today come in many colors: Pink, white, orange, yellow, blue and the unrivalled seduction of the red ,red rose.

There are miniature roses, hybrid tea roses, grandifloras, floribundas, climbers, ramblers, bushes and tree roses.

I will post a few pictures in the next few replies.

Here is the old rose
Rosa Gallica

Here is a beautiful pink rose in the early morning light.

Here is a beautiful rambling rose:
Albertina, introduced in 1921

The beautiful rose:
Bagatelle, catching the light of the morning sun.

The beautiful orange
Brandy tea rose:

A beautiful climbing rose,
covering an old brick wall:

A rambling rose

A WHITE ROSE

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.

But I send you a cream- white rosebud
With a flush upon its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

~John Boyle O'Reilly

Enjoy all the roses

Thank you Inda.
These are magnificent...i love roses.

Love,
Sylvie

The rose is my favorite flower.
Thank you for posting these beautiful images.
This is fantastic.

Christina

Aaaah! I just walked (with my mouse) through
a gorgeous rose garden. Their beauty is
astounding -- I could smell them with my soul!
Thank you for this gift of Rose-love.
Blessings...

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~~~BARBARA

YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!

These are so beautiful, I feel all rosey! he he.. Thanks for sharing! Lovebeams, Teo

May you find yourself in the world, and may you enjoy the company.

Thank you all.

Because your words are as beautiful as the rose,
I will send you one more.

Thank you dear Inda, this is a magnificent thread .... I am familiar with roses since the moment I was born .... because my hometown in Switzerland, Rapperswil at the lake of Zurich, is called "Rosenstadt" ... city of roses and in its coat of arms it has two red roses. There are some beautiful gardens of roses ....

Love, Margherita

On a dolphin’s back
I ride my ocean of tears
she giggles me through

senryu by Margherita

Thank you Inda and Margherita.
This is like walking through the Bagatelle
rosegardens in France.
Absolutely magnificent.

Gisele

Dear Margherita,
Rosenstadt sounds like a magical fairy tale.
How wonderful to have grown up in a rosegarden.
Thank you for adding your beautiful rose to this thread.

Love, Inda

Thank you Gisele.
I did not get a chance to go to Bagatelle, but I have a book anbout it at my cottage.
It is absolutely beautiful.

Love, Inda

Dear Inda,

What a wonderful thread
I am excited this moment
that rose is a part of
my family name.

thank you!

Love,

Lilie