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A Single Red Rose Says "I Love You"
The Language of Flowers was brought to Europe in the 18th century. Each flower, color, and number had a specific meaning. By the 19th century, the floral code became popular with people sending messages via flower bouquets. Conversations between lovers took place without a single word being written or spoken. In the 21st century, a single red rose can be used with your message to convey your love.
If other expressions are needed, though, borrow some love words from poets.
"Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell's despair."
William Blake
"I love you so much, truly, that one could sooner dry up the deep sea and hold back its waves than I could constrain myself from loving you."
Guillaume de Machaut
"For I had rather owner be
Of thee one hour, than all else ever."
John Donne
A single rose speaks volumes. Single Rose Tidbit:
A single rose is all you need to convey your love to another.
Symbol of Romance and Love
throughout History.
From the time Cleopatra filled a room two-feet deep with rose petals for the visit of her beloved Marc Anthony to modern singles offering a single rose to their lovers, the rose has been a symbol of romance and love.
The rose was sacred to Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Robert burns the Scottish Poet, expressed his love as being like a red, red rose.
In the traditional Language of Flowers, lovers sent multiple or single roses to each other with very specific meanings understood by all: A red rose signified passion but a withered red rose meant that love was over.
No other plant has a heritage as long or romantic as the rose. Although the rose has had many meanings throughout history, it is most often associated with love and romance today.
All roses symbolize love, but certain rose colors take on special meanings. Red roses clearly say "I love you" in any romantic situation.
Although many lovers present roses by the dozen, a single rose is all that is needed to promise lifelong devotion and romance to the love of your life.
A single rose and a love quote:
"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
Marc Chagall
“A cosmic explosion of life and inexhaustible energy, contained in a red rose. It’s a magic gift from the Heavens”
The Magical Powers of a Red Rose
A red rose can ward the romance Develin
A red rose can proclaim the Georgia spring.
.Raise the red rose! Raise the red rose! Raise the red rose!
This world does not answer to one man, but to each and every one.
This world does not allow anyone to dictate to others,
And the people, made up of individuals, can reply with ten million cries of “No!”
Everyone has an equal right to participate in elections,
Everyone is subject to the same conditions and rules of power.
Raise the red rose! Raise the red rose! Raise the red rose!
While living, let’s live in the spirit of the red rose.
Bow to the red rose, pay homage to the red rose.
Whoever draws near to the red rose draws nearest to God.
Whoever believes in the red rose believes in love and kindness.
Whoever raises the red rose raises the sword of justice, raises the scepter of human conscience,
and becomes a pillar supporting the paradise to which mankind has aspired throughout
the ages.
The red rose blooms in our hearts;
It is the smile of God in our hearts, the opening of the Gospel in our bodies.
Each one of us is a red rose, a red rose bursting through flesh and blood.
Each one of us is a living Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson;
A living Homer, Dante, Goethe; a living Jesus, a living Siddhartha Guatama,
A living Muhammad.
Those who respect others will be respected.
No one can claim ultimate superiority, dominance, honor or power.
He who is worshipped in life
of existence; no one is born to be jailor, guard or cell bully!
Raise the red rose! Raise the red rose! Raise the red rose!
A red rose is a tender and peaceful power;
It is a fragrant rejection, resistance and destruction;
It is beauty’s contempt and transcendence of darkness; it is the eternal blue dream of humanity
that floats between the sea, the sky and the vast land . . .
Author Unknown
More History surrounds the“ Magic of the SINGLE RED ROSE”
Evidence suggests that the red rose is nearly 35 million years old. The most commonly available roses belong to two broad categories: the Oriental species and their hybrids, and the European or Mediterranean species and their hybrids. It is possible to grow a red rose anywhere in the world, if the species to which it belongs is selected according to climatic conditions.
Not surprisingly, therefore, ancient civilizations such as those of the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans seemed to have given the red rose a place of pride. Rose fossils have been found near ancient Egyptian tombs. Greek mythology is replete with references to the red rose being sacred to Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, and Venus, the Greek goddess of love. Cupid, of course, is inextricably linked to the red rose.
The Romans seem to have been rather preoccupied with the red rose. Their preoccupation was not just the result of their appreciation for its beauty and fragrance. They had discovered the medicinal properties of the red rose, and also found ways of capturing its fragrance in perfumes. In fact, there is evidence which suggests that they experimented with cultivation techniques and found ways to make red roses blossom beyond their natural peripheries.
The beauty of the red rose has always driven rose lovers to find ways and means of collecting them, displaying them and growing them. French Empress Josephine, particularly after her divorce with Emperor Napoleon, took to roses and dedicated a large space and resources to the cultivation and hybridization of roses. The palace of Malaysian became home to rose gardens with old and new species. Among these, the red rose received plenty of attention.
The red rose also has an interesting place in the history of England. Opposing factions in York and Lancaster fought for control over England in the 15th century. York was synonymous with the white rose and Lancaster with the red rose. In fact, the friction between these warring factions led to the coining of the term 'War of the Roses'. Lancaster emerged victorious, but this victory did not spell defeat for York. Tudor Henry VII and his bride from York facilitated the symbolic union of red rose and the white rose, and gave England 'the Rose of England'.
Whether it's red roses in England, or in any other part of the world, botanists credit China with the 'ever-blooming' variety. In the late 18th century, botanists succeeded in bringing these to Europe, and then the rest of the world. Today, including hybrids, there are over 150 species of roses. Several of these are red. There are different shades of red roses available today, and they are of different sizes.
Send a Red Rose to Keep Second Marriage Alive.
Keep love alive in your second marriage with a single red rose.
From the time Cleopatra filled a room two-feet deep with rose petals for the visit of her beloved Marc Anthony to modern lovers offering a single rose to their love, the rose has been a symbol of romance and love.
The rose was sacred to Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Robert Burns, the Scottish Poet, expressed his love as being like a red, red rose.
In the traditional Language of Flowers, lovers sent multiple or single roses to each other with very specific meanings understood by all: A red rose signified passion but a withered red rose meant that love was over.
No other plant has a heritage as long or romantic as the rose. Although the rose has had many meanings throughout history, it is most often associated with love and romance today.
All roses symbolize lve, but certain rose colors take on special meanings. Red roses clearly say "I love you" in any romantic situation.
Although many lovers present roses by the dozen, a single rose is all that is needed to promise lifelong devotion and romance to the love of your life.
A single rose and a love quote:
"In our life there is a single color, as on
The Language of Flowers was brought to Europe in the 18th century. Each flower, color, and number had a specific meaning. By the 19th century, the floral code became popular with people sending messages via flower bouquets. Conversations between lovers took place without a single word being written or spoken. In the 21st century, a single red rose can be used with your message to convey your love.
ARTISTIC INSPIRATION
Roses have inspired artists through the centuries, their flowers appear in paintings as far back as
2000 BC. For the design of paintings and carpets roses were very important in Persia. A rose resembling Rosa sancta, (now R Richardii, similar to our B.C. native R. nutkana) appears in the famous frescoos painted on the walls of the cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
During the 16th centuries Dutch painters popularized the rose in their famous oil paintings. The most famous rose painter of all time is the 19th century Pierre-Joseph Redoute, who commissioned by French Empress Josephine, painted over 170 of her roses. Reproductions of his botanical art can still be found in our mass produced 20th century framed prints.
The ancestors of the roses we know today originated in the wild - from the high mountains of central Europe (as with the Gallicas) to the Northern sea coasts of Japan (as with the Rugosas). Surprisingly, the rose's natural habitat does not include the southern hemisphere. Hardy and disease resistant, these early and vigorous plants can still be grown today (they are particularly good anywhere with less than perfect growing conditions and near vegetable gardens where spraying with fungicides is not desired).
The oldest garden rose is the Rosa gallica offlcinalis, the apothecary rose.
Old garden rose classes include the Albas, Centifolias and Damasks with their heady old rose fragrance. These have been long grown for their beauty and ability to grow in a most carefree manner. That they bloom only in mid-summer, as do their wild relatives, predating the later repeat flowering roses, is of little consequence in comparison with their easy care beauty and fragrance. Already in 35 AD the Roman writer Virgil wrote about the cultivationof roses and he extolled the virtues of "twice -bearing" roses, probably referring to the Autumn Damasks. But it would still be many centuries before the arrival in the West of the first true repeat-flowering roses form China from which the modern hybrid tea roses would be developed! During the Middle Ages the returning Crusaders brought with them roses from the middle East.
During these so-called Dark Ages ornamental gardening was not a priority with ordinary people: the newly imported roses were kept alive in monastery gardens. The renewed interest in the garden rose came with 19th century Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. This ambitious woman's dream was to establish a rose garden in Malaysian containing a collection of all the roses of the world. Although France was at war with every country in Europe and isolated by blockades, arrangements were made by England and France to bring to Josephine's garden newly discovered roses from China.
These unusual red and yellow roses (most roses up to that time being shades of pink, white and magenta) were then hybridized with the old roses by rose breeders around the world to create the new brightly colored and repeat flowering Tea roses, Hybrid Perpetuals and Hybrid Teas, Noisettes, Floribundas and the colorful modern climbers we know today.
Unfortunately, however, while these newly hybridized roses had beautiful flowers to look at, often the much treasured rose fragrance and general old garden rose healthiness was lost in the breeding programs, being sacrificed for qualities valuable for showing the huge rose flowers. As well, yellow and bright red roses, hybridized from China roses brought from Asia in the late 1800s were often very susceptible to the fungal diseases - black spot and powdery mildew particularly with the conditions of our coastal climate.
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