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Friday, May 4, 2007

Silk Roses

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No one can argue the fact that any kind of rose is beautiful, any color, any shape. You can get them in red, pink, cream and yellow. But when it comes to silk roses, you may get them in just about any color you like. They can be used for anything from weddings to gifts.

If you have decided to use silk roses for your special wedding day, it would have been a good choice as they will not die and fall apart before the ceremony – they will still look beautiful years later! The nice thing about using silk flowers for a wedding is that you can also use them to celebrate your first anniversary. It will make the day even more unique if you used the same flowers as you did on your wedding day for your anniversary. If you bought a lot of silk roses for the wedding you could also hand some out to the guests, they would appreciate that. What will also be nice for the wedding is having the flower girl throw silk petals or just drop them as she walks

Silk roses are available in many different styles too. You can get them in a bouquet or just a single rose. You may also choose the color and if you ask nicely I am sure you could get a bouquet of silk roses mixing all your favorite colors! For weddings and occasions like that you could have your silk flowers in pretty little baskets.

Women will also appreciate a bunch of these, there doesn’t have to be an occasion for a man to buy his girlfriend or his wife a bunch of silk roses. He could just do it every now and then to remind her how much he loves her.

Overall, silk roses make the perfect compliment to many different occasions. The timelessness of silk roses give it a unique edge in the world of flowers.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Roses

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Roses are probably one of the most prized flowers in a garden. There are so many types of roses that one could plant acres and acres of them and each rosebush could bear a different type of flower. You have several choices to make if you are considering planting and growing roses. Rose breeders are constantly doing research to create hardier plants; roses that can withstand very cold or very hot climates.
Other types of roses give off such a strong scent that they can saturate your entire yard with their sweet rose fragrance.

Symbolism

  • Red Roses: love
  • Pink Roses: grace, gentle feelings of love
  • Dark Pink Roses: gratitude
  • Light Pink Roses: admiration, sympathy
  • White Roses: innocence, purity, secrecy, friendship, reverence and humility.
  • Yellow Roses: Yellow roses generally mean dying love or platonic love. In German-speaking countries, however, they can mean jealousy and infidelity.
  • Yellow with red tips Roses: Friendship, falling in love
  • Orange Roses: passion
  • Burgundy Roses: beauty
  • Blue Roses: mystery
  • Green Roses: calm
  • Black Roses: slavish devotion (as a true black rose is impossible to produce)
  • Purple Roses: protection (paternal/maternal love)

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