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Roses and Flowers Lover!

"A rose is a rose. It's beauty and it knows that. A rose is made surely to be contemplated"

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Introduction:

    The 150 species of roses and their countless hybrid derivatives, valued for their beauty and perfume and sometimes for their bright fruits, have been at the forefront of garden design and plant hybridization. In centuries past roses had medicinal uses too, yet even in the Middle Ages when most plants had to have practical uses to justify their cultivation, a few roses were grown for their beauty alone.  Found over most of the northern hemisphere, though primarily in the temperate regions, roses are woody stemmed shrubs or  scrambling climbers.  Almost all are deciduous, and even those regarded as evergreen or semi-evergreen often shed much of their foliage in cold winters.  They range from small shrubs under 24 in (60 cm) tall through to the huge spreading climbers such as Rosa gigantea, which can have a spread of over 100 ft (30 m).  Roses have trifoliate or pinnate leaves with finely toothed leaflets.  The foliafe may be bright green, very deep lustrous, almost black-green or distinctly blue-tinted.

   Most species have arching, thorny stems, and both the young stems ad new foliage are often tinted red.  The thorns of cultivated roses are usually broad based and recurved  to a fine point, but many wild species, especially the briars, have a dense covering of prickles rather than thorns.

Families and galleries:

Families	Picture galleries
Hybrid Tea Roses	gallery 1
Grandiflora Roses	gallery 2
Floribunda Roses	gallery 3
Miniature Roses	gallery 4
Climbing Roses	gallery 5
English Roses	gallery 6
Polyantha Roses	gallery 7
Wild Roses	gallery 8

Nurseries:

	Edmunds' Roses
	Jackson & Perkins
	Nor' East Miniature Roses

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