my rose garden
Woodland
Hills California Real Estate - My Rose Garden
One of the pleasures I have living in Woodland Hills California
in my
home, is my rose garden, every year at this time all my roses are
coming back after the winter pruning and the garden is a wash with
colors and smells of these beautiful plants. I have about 65 bushes of
roses that I can not remember all their names but a couple which are:
the Barbara Streisand Rose, Kannady Rose, an English Rose
some times called a cabbage Rose, I should really try to
keep a list of names of all of them.
The
history of the Rose:
Roses have a long and colorful history. They have been symbols
of love, beauty, war, and politics. . In nature, the genus 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.
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.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.
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