Friday, October 8, 2010

Best Smelling Rose

I want to send my girlfriend some roses, and recently she told me that the best smelling roses were some kind of silver? rose I believe. I can't remember the exact name, so I was hoping someone could help me in figuring out what is the best smelling rose, and the best kind of roses?
Unfortunately, florist roses are short on scent. Somebody told me that scent was bred out of roses under pressure from the funeral industry because it was too overwhelming to have a lot of scent at funerals (?). The silver ones are actually lavender and often they are the most scented but I'm not sure they are offered by florists. I suggest a blend of red roses and oriental lillies. The lillies are beautifully scented. Something like this 












Best Smelling Flowers

How busy are we with our everyday life that we cannot “smell the flowers” anymore. Yes, to smell the flowers is just a metaphor, but it refers to a lot of things.
For example, we walk everyday on the same streets, near the same stores and people that we forget to watch them, we forget they are there. We do this automatically, we rarely stop to think. Just make a test and see for yourself: the big white house you walk by every day, what kind of windows does it have? What colors are they, what’s the shape of it’s roof top? Does it have a chimney or not? Mmmm, you don’t know, do you?
The thing is that we get so absorbed by our little problems that we forget to stop and see the big picture. I think this really depends on the level of living of each country. For example people from a poor country think about their immediate needs, like food , having a home, having someone that takes care of them. On the other hand people from a highly developed country start thinking about the planet needs, they want to “Save the whales” and take care of the Ozone layer, the start seeing the big picture because they don’t have pressing needs to attend to.

Top 10 Romantic Flowers

Flowers for long have been associated with the language of love. Each flower symbolizes love and conveys the love to your sweetheart. Express your loving heart; give words to your expression through top 10 romantic flowers. Flowers bring upon a smile on the face, twinkle in the eyes, and spread the charm of love and romance in the ambience. Romantic flowers spell out romance in your love life in a perfect way.






















Top 10 Wedding Flowers

Not only does the hall or church have to be decorated in flowers, usually the bride carries a bouquet and so do the bridesmaids and flower girls. The general tip is to get flowers that match the theme and colour of the dresses. If the theme is Christmas than red and green should be the colours that you are interested in, or if it is valentines day than red flowers. If you really want a stunning bouquets for the bride very light colours will accentuate her dress and her beauty taking very little attention of her but still giving her the elegant classy look.
Often at the reception parents are given a bunch of flowers in a presentation such as a basket, or large bouquet for a large thank you for all the work that they have done with the wedding and a thank you for just being there for them when they needed them most. Other special players in the wedding usually receive gifts as well and all guests take home wedding favors.













Top 10 Climbing Roses

Climbers come in a variety of colors, and if your favorite is red then choose the Blaze Improved. It is a large flowered climber that grows 12 to 14 feet with a spread of 2 to 4 feet. It holds its bright color in even the hottest sun and is an ideal pillar rose for planting along fences, porches, or arches. For a real show stopper you will enjoy the Climbing Blaze Rose.
Remember the Climbing Peace Rose and the other climbers discussed are just a few of the roses that will add pizzazz to your rose garden. They are among the best climbing roses that offer many opportunities to enhance and decorate your yard, porch or fence and to add shade to a garden retreat. No garden or gateway is complete without an inviting archway or arbor covered with beautiful climbing roses beckoning visitors to enter.

Moondance Rose

A double award winner, Moondance Rose is a fabulous fragrant white floribunda rose bush that blooms with abundance all season, and is very disease free.
'Moondance' floribunda rose is actually more vigorous and produces more flowers than it's famous parent, the Iceberg rose.
It's also much more fragrant, which is a big plus.











Knockout Rose

Knock Out rose was developed by Wisconsin rose breeder William Radler who has been growing roses since his youth. He was the long time director of the Boerner Botanical Garden in Minneapolis and has recently served as consulting rosarian for the Chicago Botanical Garden.