Enya - China Roses

Enjoy this lovely song! It is so relaxing!

My Rose Garden

A ROSE IN WINTER

The Rose

"The Rose"


Some say love, it is a river

That drowns the tender reed

Some say love, it is a razor

That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love, it is a hunger

An endless aching need

I say love, it is a flower

And you, its only seed

It's the heart, afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance

It's the dream, afraid of waking

That never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken

Who cannot seem to give

And the soul, afraid of dying

That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long

And you think that love is only

for the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter

Far beneath the bitter snow

Lies the seed

That with the sun's love, in the spring

Becomes the rose


The Rose Song Lyrics Information


The Rose was recorded by Bette Midler in1979

Other popular recording have been by Conway Twitty

In 1983 and Leann Rimes in1997

Lyrics and Song Music by Amanda Mc Broom

The Colorful Rose History

Roses have a long and colorful history. They have been symbols of love, beauty, war, and politics. The rose is 35 million years old, according to fossil evidence. Rosa has some 150 species spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from Alaska to Mexico and including northern Africa. Garden cultivation of roses began some 5,000 years ago, probably in China. During the Roman period, roses were grown extensively in the Middle East. They were used as confetti at celebrations, for medicinal purposes, and as a source of perfume. Roman nobility established large public rose gardens in the south of Rome. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the popularity of roses seemed to rise and fall depending on gardening trends of the time.

The White Rose of York





During the fifteenth century, the rose was used as a symbol for the factions fighting to control England. The white rose symbolized York, and the red rose symbolized Lancaster, as a result, the conflict became known as the "War of the Roses."

Roses were in such high demand during the seventeenth century that royalty considered roses or rose water as legal tender, and they were often used as barter and for payments. Napoleon's wife Josephine established an extensive collection of roses at Chateau de Malmaison, an estate seven miles west of Paris in the 1800s. This garden became the setting for Pierre Joseph Redoute's work as a botanical illustrator. In 1824, he completed his watercolor collection "Les Rose," which is still considered one of the finest records of botanical illustration.

It wasn't until the late eighteenth century that cultivated roses were introduced into Europe from China. Most modern-day roses can be traced back to this ancestry. These introductions were repeat bloomers, making them unusual and of great interest to hybridize rs, setting the stage for breeding work with native roses to select for hardiness and a long bloom season. Many of these early efforts by plant breeders are of great interest to today's gardeners.


Carefree delight shrub rose hedge
Roses are once again enjoying a resurgence in popularity, specifically, shrub roses and old garden roses. Gardeners realize that these roses fit the lifestyle of today's gardeners who want roses that are not as demanding with regard to disease control, offer excellent floral quality, have excellent winter hardiness, and fit into shrub borders and perennial gardens without seeming out of place.

To be successful in growing roses in Midwest gardens, one needs to be aware of some basic considerations. Attention to plant selection, a basic knowledge of the wide array of classes available, basic culture information, and information about potential disease and insect problems will go a long way in making roses an enjoyable addition to the garden.

This short guide to rose gardening will hopefully help sort through some of the confusion about roses and entice you to include one or more of these plants in your garden.

Roses are Red, My Love

Here is an oldie but goodie!

The Meaning of Rose Colors

Red Rose - Love, beauty, respect
Red roses are given to those who you want to show love and passion, people who you have great respect for, and those who have shown great courage.The quantity can also have a special meaning.
A single red rose shows love, a dozen shows gratitude, twenty-five shows congratulations and fifty show unconditional love.
Two red roses tied together symbolizes an engagement.
The shade of the red has a meaning as well. Bright red means love, burgundy means unconscious love, dark crimson is used to show mourning. A withered red rose is used to show that the love is over.

Pink Rose - Appreciation, gratitude

Pink roses in general are given to those whom you want to show thankfulness, admiration, and happiness. The different shades of pink can have more precise meanings. Yellow Rose - Joy, Gladness, Friendship

They are given to new mothers, newlyweds, and graduates. They're also used as a reminder to a loved one to show that you care. In the past yellow was used to show jealousy and a decrease of love.

Peach Rose - Appreciation, Lets get together

Pale Peach Rose - Modesty

Coral Rose - Desire

Lavender Rose - Love at First Sight, Enchantment

Lavender roses show that you have fallen in love with someone from the moment you saw them. It also can be given to those who you feel are very unique, and those who you feel are enchanting.

Orange Rose - Enthusiasm, Desire, Fascination

Orange roses are given to those who you desire, those you want to get to know better, or those who you are proud of.

Black Rose - Death, farewell

Blue Rose - The unattainable, the impossible

Single in any color - Simplicity, Gratitude

Red Rosebud - Symbolic of purity and loveliness

White Rose - Symbolic of girlhood
White roses are given to those who are innocent, reverent, and pure. They are very commonly used in weddings. They can also be given as a sign of secrecy. A white rosebud is used to show girlhood.A white rose that has been dried means "Death is Preferable to Loss of Virtue". A whithered white rose represents fleeting beauty, or given to show that no impression was made.

The Thorn less Rose - Love at first sight

Roses For Katherine Bregy

Roses
(For Katherine Bregy)
I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring,

For I would make a posy, a posy for the King.

I got an hundred roses, the loveliest there be,

From the white rose vine and the pink rose bush and from the red rose tree.

But when I took my posy and laid it at His feet

I found He had His roses a million times more sweet.

There was a scarlet blossom upon each foot and hand,

And a great pink rose bloomed from His side for the healing of the land.

Now of this fair and awful King there is this marvel told,

That He wears a crown of linked thorns instead of one of gold.

Where there are thorns are roses, and I saw a line of red,

A little wreath of roses around His radiant head.

A red rose is His Sacred Heart, a white rose is His face,

And His breath has turned the barren world to a rich and flowery place.

He is the Rose of Sharon, His gardener am I,

And I shall drink His fragrance in Heaven when I die.

Rose Petal Beads

The heat of your body causes the beads to give off the smell of the rose.
In enamel pan place one pound of red rose petals with just enough water to cover.
Simmer very slowly for one hour but do not boil.Cover and let stand over night.
Repeat these steps three more times.
By the fourth day,the petals and water will have become a smooth paste.
Take a small amount and roll it between your palms ,forming beads 1/4 inch in diameter.
Pierce each ball with a needle for stringing and let the beads dry on newspaper in a warm closet.
Thread the beads onto silk thread for your necklace.
These beads are sturdier than you would think,lasting several years and keeping their fragrance. They turn a polished red Sienna color.

Shakespeare's Sonnet LIV

Shakespeare's Sonnet LIV
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem

By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem

For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye

As the perfumed tincture of the roses,

Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly

When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:

But, for their virtue only is their show,

They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,Die to themselves.

Sweet roses do not so;Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:

And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,

When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.

Roses

Roses~George Eliot

You love the roses - so do I.

I wishThe sky would rain down roses, as they rain

From off the shaken bush.

Why will it not?

Then all the valley would be pink and white

And soft to tread on.

They would fall as light

As feathers, smelling sweet: and it would be

Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once.

The Secret Rose Garden

The Secret Rose Garden
by Mahmud Ibn 'Abd Al-Kar Shabistari, Florence Lederer (Foreword by), David Fideler, PH.D. (Editor)
About this title: The mystic verse of Shabistari, written during a period of fierce conflict between Christianity and Islam in the fourteenth century, must be considered among the greatest poetry of any time or land. Restating ibn 'Arabi's ideas in poetic form and treating such themes as the Spiritual Journey, Time and This Dream-World, and the ecstasy of Divine Inebriation, it bears perennial witness to the capabilities and destiny of humanity. While he was deeply rooted in the Sufi mystical tradition, there are no cultural gaps to be bridged, for he was keenly aware of that one unique truth which all religions strive to approximate. Thus he writes: "'I' and 'you' are but the lattices, / In the niches of a lamp, / Through which the One Light shines. / 'I' and 'you' are the veil / Between heaven and earth; / Lift this veil and you will see / No longer the bonds of sects and creeds. / When 'I' and 'you' do not exist, /What is mosque, what is synagogue? / What is the Temple of Fire."

This Porcelain Rose
Author: Amy Sculley Barnes

Our love is like this porcelain rose -
Fragile, yet unable to be broken.
This rose, like our love,
Will never die.

The dew kissed petals represent
The tears we've cried.
It often says the words of affection
That sometimes go unspoken.

Please do not leave our love on the shelf,
With me, you do not have to be afraid to be yourself.

As our life together begins,
I want you to hold the porcelain rose close to your heart.
And remember our love is too strong to be torn apart.

Dreams Last

The Rose Family

The Rose Family

The rose is a rose,

And was always a rose.

But now the theory goes

That the apple's a rose,

And the pear is,

and so's

The plum, I suppose.

The dear only knows

What will next prove a rose.

You, of course, are a rose--

But were always a rose.

by Robert Frost.

Nobody Knows This Little Rose

by Emily Dickinson

Nobody knows this little Rose --

It might a pilgrim be

Did I not take it from the ways

And lift it up to thee.

Only a Bee will miss it --

Only a Butterfly,

Hastening from far journey --

On its breast to lie --

Only a Bird will wonder --

Only a Breeze will sigh --

Ah Little Rose --

how easy For such as thee to die!

A Rose Is A Rose

A Rose is a Rose
by Brett Nicholas Moore

A rose is a rose

like a train is a train,

a cat is a cat,

or pleasure is pain.

A rose is a rose

like the truth is a lie

what is wrong is right

there are reasons why

A rose is a rose

like one is a pack

like black is white

and white is black

It's as simple as that.