Friday, May 30, 2008

THE ROSE IN ART

1. Red and White Roses

Read in these roses the sad story
Of my hard fate, and your own glory.
In the white you may discover
The paleness of a fainting lover;
In the red the flames still feeding
On my heart, with fresh wounds bleeding.
The white will tell you how I languish,
And the red express my anguish;
The white my innocence displaying,
The red my martyrdom betraying.
The frowns that on your brow resided,
Have those roses thus divided.
Oh! Let your smiles but clear the weather,
And then they both shall grow tighter.

Thomas Carew (?1595 - ?1640)



2. The Sick Rose

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

William Blake (1757 – 1832)



3. To a Friend

As late i rambled in the happy fields,
What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew
From his lush clover covert;- when anew
Adventurous knight take up their dinted shields:
I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields,
A fresh-blown musk rose; ‘twas the first that threw
Its sweets upon the summer: graceful it grew
As is the wand that queen Titania wields.
And, as I feasted on its fragrancy:
I thought the garden rose it far excell’d:
But when, O Wells! Thy roses came to me
My sense with their deliciousness was spell’d:
Soft voices had they, that with tender plea
Whisper’d of peace, and truth, and friendliness
Unquell’d.


To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Rose, John Keats (1795-1821)


4. Of Poetry and Painting

June of this iris and the rose.
The rose not English as we fondly think.
Anacreon and Bion sang the rose;
And Rhodes the isle whose very name means rose
Struck roses on her coins;
Pliny made lists and Roman libertines
Made wreaths to wear among the flutes and wines;
The young Crusaders found the Syrian rose
Springing from Saracenic quoins,
And China opened her shut gate
To let her roses through, and Persian Shrines
Of poetry and painting gave the rose.

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962)






THE ROSE DISPLAYED


1. Sweet Simplicity

What could be simpler and yet more stunning than an elegant, tall-stemmed glass of beautiful roses. The secret of success here is to densely pack the glass with a selection of blooms in varying shades of the same colour: in this case, from palest pink to deep crimson touches in the form of small buds. For additional interest, we have included some old-fashioned roses – notably Ferdinand Pichard, with striped crimson petals. This variety also offers a powerful scent.

2. Hearts’ Desire

St Valentines’ Day is marvellous opportunity to be hopelessly romantic and create a decoration or gift in true Victorian style. A heart-shaped basket provides the prefect container for a dramatic collection of red roses, the very embodiment of love. The basket is first filled with damp floral foam. The stems of the scarlet rosebuds are cut very short and then packed into the centre of the basket following the heart shape of the container. This solid of mass of colour and texture ensure maximum impact. An edging of lilac serves to soften both the hard edges of the basket as well as the solid outline of the heart arrangement of roses. Heart-shaped fresh rose decoration created solely from roses of a single colour can generate very different moods, depending on the colour chosen: vermillion for powerful drama; shaded pinks for a soft and pretty effect.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

ROSE GIFTS


1. Peach Rose Candle-holder

Circle of card 12.5cm in diameter
Quick-drying adhesive or glue gun
Dried eucalyptus leaves
Peach jute scrim ribbon 2.75m x 7.7cm
Florist’s reel wire
Dried peach roses
Gypsophila (Baby’s breath ), dyed peach Candle

Remove a 7.5cm diameter circle from the centre of the card to make a ring. Glue overlapping eucalyptus leaves to the ring to cover it. Measure 5cm from the end of the ribbon, bend in half to form a loop and secure with a length of reel wire twisted around the base. Measure 7.5cm along the ribbon from the loop and make a second loop, again securing with reel wire. Repeat a further three times. Glue the ribbon around the ring at each loop base. Glue a single rose behind each loop. Then, glue roses onto the ring between each loop. Glue the bases of single eucalyptus leaves around the inside edge of the ring so that they stand upright, to frame the candle. Cut the gypsophila into short sprays, apply a small amount of glue to the bases and intersperse between the roses and ribbon loops. Push the candle up through the centre of the base.

2. Rose Hand Gel

18ml glycerine
¼ tsp borax
18ml cornflour
300ml rosewater
3 drops rose essential oil
2 drops red food colouring

Place the glycerine in the top of a double boiler and heat gently. Add the borax, then stir in the cornflour a little at a time and beat into a smooth paste. Continue to heat and add the rosewater a little at a time, stirring continuously until the mixture becomes thick and creamy. Add the rose oil and food colouring, give the mixture a final beat and pour into a storage jar.

3. Almond and Rose Oil

There is no better way to condition your skin after bathing than to massage in a little of this oil. You can mix any amount, large or small, provided that you follow the ratio given below, ie 20:1.

500ml almond oil
½ tsp rose essential oil
The latter must never be used directly on the skin- it is far too powerful. For our blend, it is worth-while selecting a top quality essential oil – price usually indicates quality. When mixing, use rubber gloves, shake the mixture well and leave for two days to blend. If using a clear glass jar, do not display in a sunny or hot bathroom. To keep the oil in optimum condition, store in a cool, dark cupboard

THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES


Burgundy Rose – simplicity and beauty; unconscious beauty
Carolina Rose – love is dangerous
China Rose – grace or beauty ever fresh; beauty is always new
Damask Rose – brilliant complexion; beauty ever new
Dog Rose – pleasure mixed with pain; simplicity
Eglantine – poetry; I wound to heal
Moss Rose – voluptuous love; confessions of love
Multiflora Rose –grace
Musk Rose – capricious beauty
Provence Rose – my hearts is in flames
Rose – love and beauty
White Rose – simplicity
White and red Rose together – unity; warmth of the heart
White Rosebud – too young to love; girlhood; a heart ignorant of love
York and Lancaster Rose - war

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

ROSE GALLERY

This gallery of roses contains just a small selection of the varieties that can be obtained from specialist rose nurseries and garden centers, and is intended to be a representative selection of roses new and old. If you have not planted roses before, use it to help you decide on the types of roses that appeal to you, but bear in mind that these are just a few of hundreds of excellent varieties available for your garden.

1. RAMBLERS AND CLIMBERS
2. FLORIBUNDA ( CLUSTER-FLOWERED ) ROSES
3. GROUND COVER ROSES
4. HYBRID TEA (LARGE-FLOWERED) ROSES
5. MINIATURE ROSES
6. PATIO ROSES
7. SHRUB ROSES

A HISTORY OF THE ROSE.

1. ANCIENT ROSES

The wild rose was most certainly enjoyed by early people for it’s sweet petals and tasty his, and rose cultivation probably began around 5,000 years ago in China.

The rose mentioned by many Greek historians were almost certainly Rosa gallica, the ancestor of numerous European roses. Known as the ‘Apothecary’s Rose’ or ‘Red Damask’, R.g. officinalis was the main source of rose oil and medicinal remedies in Europe until the introduction of rose species from the Far East.

The early Christian church condemned roses as a symbol of depravity, with some justification since Nero’s obsession with these flowers almost certainly contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. The emperor’s excesses were notorious and it is said that tons of roses were required for the numerous banquets he gave where guests sat on pillows stuffed with them. Vast quantities of petals were showered over people at orgies, reputedly suffocating at least one participant and pure rose-water baths were offered to all the guests.

Roses symbolized success in Roman times and millions of petals were threaded on to brass wires to make garlands and headdresses. Peasants consequently came to believe that it was more profitable to grow roses than corn, a disastrous misconception noted by the Roman poet Horace and other intellectuals of his time.

2. THE MIDDLE AGES

Little information exists about the cultivation of roses following the collapse of the Roman Empire until about AD 400, when the church adopted the white R. alba as the emblem of the Virgin Mary.

In 1272 Edward I of England, upon his return from the last Crusade, ordered rose trees to be planted in the gardens of the Tower of London and chose a gold rose as his own symbol.
It is possible that returning Crusaders were responsible for the introduction of R. damascene. Certainly by the end of the fifteenth century the rose ‘Autumn Damask’, known in France as ‘Quatre Saisons’ and the first ros in Europe to produce two crops of flowers every summer, was growing in English gardens.

It is debatable whether R. gallica was brought to England by the Romans or at a later date by returning Crusaders. It was, however, the emblem of the House of Lancaster in the prolonged struggle against the house of York (who adopted R. x alba) during the bitter Wars of the Roses in England in the fifteenth century.

The marriage of Henry Tudor (Henry VII) and Elizabeth of York finally united the factions. Their emblem was a white rose in the centre of a red rose entwined with a crown. Since then the British royal family have adopted the rose as their own.

By the end of the sixteenth century, R.foetida had been introduced into Europe from what was then Persia and R. moschata, the musk rose, was certainly favoured by thecourt of Henry VIII.

European roses were taken to America by the Pilgrim Fathers and by the beginning of the seventeenth century were growing in many gardens in Massachusetts. North America already had its own species, R. virginiana and R. carolina. Another, R. setigera, would later produce some vigorous rambler cultivars including the pale pink. ‘Baltimore Belle’, still famous in America and the climber ‘Long John Silver’, a fragrant pure white.

3. EARLY HYBRIDS

Until the process of hybridization was understood in the nineteenth century, new rose varieties were the results of natural crosses or sports (mutations), carefully chosen and nurtured by gardeners and nurserymen. Dutch breeders pioneered work in Europe in the seventeenth century, working on
R. centifolia, or the Provence Rose, also known as the cabbage rose because of its “hundred-leaved” flowers. Moss roses appeared around the mid-eighteenth century as a sport (mutation) from R. centifolia.

Rose breeding was given tremendous impetus by the patronage of the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon. Between 1803 and 1814 she commissioned botanists and nurserymen all over the world to discover and breed new rose for her garden at Malmaison near Paris, where she eventually grew over 250 varieties.

4. INTRODUCTIONS FROM THE FAR EAST.

The Chinese had been growing roses for thousand of years and these began to reach European growers in the late eighteenth century. Around 1781 a pink rose, R. chinensis, now known as ‘Old Blush’, was planted in the Netherlands and soon came to England. Some years later a captain of the British East India Company returned home with a red form of the same rose, which he had found growing in Calcutta and it was named R. semperflowers, the ‘Bengal Rose’, or ‘ Slater’s Crimson China’. Between them, these two roses are responsible for the remontant or repeat-flowering qualities in most modern roses.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century the flowers known as tea roses arrived on the ships of the British East India Company – their main cargo was tea, which probably accounts for the common name of these roses. They became fashionable are tender the Victorians grew them in grand conservatories, along with other exotic flowers brought back by explorers and botanists from all parts of the British empire.

5. EAST MEETS WEST.

One of the first marriages between a rose from the West and one from the East was a cross between ‘Autumn Damask’ and a red China rose which was probably obtained from France by the second Duchess of Portland, an enthusiastic rose collector of the late eighteenth century. The Portland roses, as they became known, were very popular in the early 1800s. Though few survive today, they are ideal for growing in containers and are prized for their perfume and ability to flower throughout the summer.

Meanwhile, at around the same time in Charleston, South Carolina, a rice-grower called John Champneys crossed a musk rose, R. moschata, with a China rose, R. chinensis ‘Parson’s Pink China’ or ‘Old Blush’, which had been a gift from his friend and neighbour, Philippe Noisette. He gave the new seedling to Noisette, who made more crosses and sent both seed and plants to his brother Louis in Paris. The first seedling he called ‘Rosier de Philippe Noisette’, a long name that inevitably came to be shortened to ‘Noisette’.

‘Blush Noisette’ is still widely grown today and so too is the beautiful ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’, one of the few climbing roses that can tolerate a north-facing wall.

Bourbon roses also made their appearance during this period. These began as a cross between ‘Old Blush’ and ‘Autumn Damask’ found growing in rose hedges on the Ile de Bourbon in the Indian Ocean. Many of these shrub roses are still available, including ‘Louise Odier’, Souvenir de la Malmaison’ and the much-prized, thornless ‘Zephirine Drouhin’.

6. THE MODERN ROSE

Throughout the nineteenth century hybrid perpetuals were introduced as a result of breeding between Chinas, Portlands, Bourbons and Noisettes.

The birth of what is considered to be the first modern rose, the large-flowered or hybrid tea rose, took place in 1867 with the introduction of Jean-Baptiste Guillot’s ‘La France’. This new breed of roses satisfied gardeners’ demands for neat, repeat-flowering and truly hardy shrubs with elegant and delicate flowers.

In the mid-eighteenth century a wild rambler, R. multiflora, had been introduced from Japan. In the hands of nineteenth-century breeders, it was to become the parent of the numerous cluster-flowered or floribunda roses of today.

Most rose-breeders of the twentieth century have concentrated their efforts on floribunda and hybrid tea roses, in colours echoing current tastes in fashion. Since the late 1960s there has been a steady increase in the number of smaller shrubs for tiny gardens, patios and pots.

At the same time, a new breed of roses, evocative of Dutch old masters and the romantic paintings of Pierre-Joseph Redoute, has been introduced by the English rose-grower David Austin. He has raised roses that many be described as some of the finest reproductions, growing no more than 1.2 m tall but with all the charm and scent of classic roses of the past, crossing damasks and gallicas with modern shrub roses. Now owners of even the smallest garden may enjoy the delights of roses that the Empress Josephine would have considered for her garden Malmaison.

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