Sunday, June 1, 2025

Roses

 There are between 320 and 350  roses species, and over 30,000 cultivars. Not surprising that the subject of rose growing is so confusing. There are so many roses!  Many look very similar but are technically different, which makes the identification difficult.  They say, only 10 species of roses were used in the production of cultivars.

Yet the variety of rose color and smell is incredible. Another variety is the shape of the flower, the size of it and the number of petals.

I have seen colors in white, yellow, red, purple color scheme with all the shades in between. There is no naturally occurring blue rose.

Cultivars of roses started to be produced in large scale in France (at least to what the European knowledge tells us). France is still a major source of rose cultivars.

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