“The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart” – Unknown
Have you ever hold a rose and looked at it closely? Its enthralling beauty sometimes seems too good to be true. Rose is like the beautiful poem of nature that sounds like sweet music to every ear. Delicately put together, every petal of a rose is way too charming that it’s almost impossible to take your eyes off them and hold yourself back from touching them. Their elegant beauty has been the source of inspiration for poets and writers since ages. And we cannot think of any other flower so pure and gentle like a rose.
Available in a variety of shades, each color of roses represents different types of emotions that are described further:
Significance of Different Colours of Roses:
- Red roses reflect beauty and perfection that are considered the traditional symbol for love and romance. Nothing says ‘I Love You’ better than these red velvety blooms.
- The classic representation of grace and elegance, pink roses are often gifted as a symbol of appreciation and admiration.
- Bright, joyful and cheerful, yellow roses spread happiness and positivity everywhere. They are perfect to congratulate, say thanks and wish someone a speedy recovery.
- The elegant white roses represent purity, charm, and innocence. They are the traditional symbols of marriages and new beginnings.
- Orange roses signify desire, excitement, and enthusiasm. Considered as the wild child of the rose family, they are perfect to symbolize your passionate romance for your loved one.
- Nothing express love at first sight better than a bouquet of lavender roses.
- Whether you want to thank someone or show your appreciation, peach roses are excellent to show your gratitude elegantly.
- A little more pink than orange and darker than peach, salmon roses are a great way to share your desire for someone special.
- The ivory roses signify charm, gracefulness, and thoughtfulness that are great to let someone know that you care.
- Green roses signify life, energy and abundant growth, which communicates the message of cheerfulness in a great way.
Roses make a classic gift for any occasion that never goes out of trend. But you need to be careful about the color and number of roses that you choose to gift your loved ones on special occasions. People consider the red rose as a symbol of timeless love and passionate relationships. Therefore, the red rose bouquet makes a perfect gift for romantic occasions like anniversary or Valentine’s Day.
Similarly, pink roses are a great choice to show affection for friends and relatives on birthdays and wedding anniversaries with whom you share a special connection. Likewise, a bouquet or an arrangement of yellow roses makes the best gift to congratulate your dear ones on graduation, promotion and 50th wedding anniversary. The bright blooms spread positivity everywhere and show that you are happy on the achievement of your loved ones. While white roses are given on funerals as a token of remembrance to the deceased person, they are also gifted to celebrate the new beginnings of an engaged couple. And when you cannot decide a particular rose color, a vibrant mixed rose bouquet makes the perfect gift to communicate your love, wishes, blessings all at once for your loved ones.
There is nothing more delightful than gifting your loved ones a gorgeous bouquet of roses adorned with a personal touch. You can try making a mixed roses bouquet at home with the help of the steps given below.
Steps to Make Mixed Roses Bouquet:
- To make a mixed roses bouquet, all you need is roses of different colors of your choice, scissors, tape, and stem cutter.
- Pick an odd number of roses for every color to add variety to your bouquet. This will make the bouquet look more visually appealing.
- If the rose stems have thorns or yellow leaves, then remove them with scissors.
- Take a large stem of the rose and place it at the top. Then space out the stems of roses evenly in two or three layers below.
- Fill the gap in between with different color roses in the same way, so that mixed color roses are evenly distributed throughout the bouquet.
- You can keep on adding roses till the bouquet starts to appear full.
- Now wrap the bunch of roses around the stems using a tape.
- Use a satin ribbon that contrasts with the mixed roses to cover the tape.
- Cut the stems an inch below the ribbon with the stem cutter and your bouquet is ready.
- To gift it on special occasions, you just need to wrap a nice packaging paper around the bouquet and tie it using a tape and satin ribbon.
- If you want to keep it at home, then you can directly place the prepared bouquet into a vase filled with water. Make sure to keep the vase clean and use mild warm water.
- Always remember to keep your rose bouquet away from the direct heat or sunlight.
Some Amazing Facts About Roses:
- Rose is a type of flowering shrub that belongs to the family of plants called Rosaceae.
- The cultivation of roses began in Asia around 5000 years ago.
- There are approximately 13000 varieties of roses throughout the world.
- All roses were originally wild and they come from several parts of the world like Europe, North America, Northwest Africa and many parts of Asia and Oceania.
- Rose Hip is that fruit that rose grows. The shape is like a berry and most of them are red but you can also find black and dark purple versions.
- The size of the rose depends on the species. While flowers can reach from couple to 33 inches in diameter, certain species can reach 23 ft. in length.
- Roses can live for a long time. There are rare fossils discovered that date back to 35 million years.
- The flowers of most species of roses have five petals except for the ‘Rosa Sericea’ species that has only four petals.