The Long And Rich History Of Rose Plants

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You might call roses the older siblings of humanity. Rose plants, in fact, seem to have existed even longer than humans, judging from the fossil evidence. These flowers caught the imagination and the hearts of human beings almost from the beginning of human history, and the two have journeyed happily and meaningfully together throughout the centuries. People learned rose care and cultivation very early, and not only found ways to improve and expand the rose’s repertoire, but also invested roses with special meanings of their own.

Roses certainly entered the myths of the world quite early on. Different types of roses have figured even in Hindu myths, where the rose occasionally rivals the more usual lotus flower. In Greek mythology, Chloris, the goddess of flowers, was said to have created the rose by turning a dead nymph into a flower and inviting all the gods to bestow gifts of beauty upon her.

Rose plants came from a different source in Roman mythology, however. When the suitors of a young woman named Rodanthe became violent, the goddess Diana turned the woman into a rose, with the suitors as her thorns.

The world may owe the art of rose cultivation to the ancient Chinese, since the people of that region were cultivating rose plants about five thousand years ago. A millennium or two later, the Egyptians became aware of roses and began to make wreaths that incorporated these flowers. Remnants of such wreaths have actually been discovered buried in Egyptian tombs. The people of Crete, during the Bronze Age, represented their flower gardening in frescoes on the walls of their homes, and once again roses are featured in the paintings.

Through much early European history, roses seemed to have been forgotten, but all of that changed when Crusaders returned with rose plants from the holy lands. Islam revered the rose among many other beautiful flowers, and soon the rose became highly prized in western nations as well. Rose garden design became a pastime of many noble and royal families, and royal gardens of roses became showplaces of the beautiful flowers. Finally, these blooms were brought to ordinary people as they became easier to grow, and new hybrids were created. Roses and humans have traveled a long road together, from China through the middle east and finally to the rest of the world. The two are still journeying through history together.

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