Three hundred species. Tens of thousands of cultivars; plants that have been specifically bred through the human touch are available.
These are erect shrubs, climbing or trailing, with stems that are often laced with sharp thorns. From the genus Rosa, family Rosaceau or from the flower that this woody perinneal produces.
Their colors are usually whites to yellows to reds, to a dark red that is almost black and they are more often large and showy. The plant grows larger, can be cultivated, and shaped to become huge. The outline and shape of their blossom is almost perfect. Or rarely perfect, depending on when and where they may be in the growing season.
Around the world, with people skills, can we see the similarity in the constant growth of man, through the colors of their skin, to the characteristics that they follow, being erect, climbing or following, even down to the thorns that make there way behind every bloom.
Even to their wilting, drying and dropping from the vine that holds them. They fall apart, and leave it waiting and wondering, until the next season, as they are a perinneal, after all.
Ralph E Peck
Photo by Ralph Peck
Flowers at the Claremore Recreation Center
Claremore, Oklahoma
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