subject: The Rose Has Had A Meaningful Part Throughout Our Past [print this page] Down thorough thousands of years, humanity has held the rose as a especially important flower, giving it a high place in societies throughout the world. Even so, this flower is quite a bit older than mankind as a whole. Surprisingly, fossil evidence proves that this flower has been around for 35 million years. Today there exist over 150 distinct types of rose bushes and these have developed all across the Earth's Northern Hemisphere. It is stated by experts that these flowers were originally cultivated by the Chinese approximately 5,000 ago. Rome is where the earliest gardens of roses were set up and this city is where they came to be associated with with nobility.
Later, the rose would become a symbol for a great many kinds of social struggles, including the 'War of the Roses' in early England. Throughout history, roses were often extremely meaningful to individuals in high places due to their immense beauty. These flowers used to be highly regarded and considered especially valuable because they brought such a fragile and yet bold element of color and style to all the places where they were grown. In art, these flowers were a popular subject because they were often one of the best flowers in painting, the preliminary schools of visual art to take off and garner a global level of respect. Even these days, paintings of the rose are very popular and especially sought afterby many art collectors.
In folklore, roses have been a common symbol, because of both its blossom and its thorns. The flower would come to symbolize virtue and glamor while the thorns have been known to be the guardians of this beauty. In those times, women also used segments of roses to make their menstrual pains less frustrating and so roses became a a useful medicine in herbal remedies, as well. This is a large part of the rose's prestige, it has been known for many meanings throughout history and has come to be a highly powerful representation of romance, also.
Of course, once people discovered the joys of home gardens, roses had become a premiere bloom to choose. A lot of different types of roses were made till there happened to be all different colors and many varying shapes for choices. Presently, gardeners around the globe hold roses to be the greatest flower to grow because not only does it smell sweet and have truly gorgeous blossoms, it will make a good gift for any occasion. This is why a ton of people are fond of roses and as one might tell, without it our history would not be as interesting.
