The Rose Day! Across the campuses, it is big time. In fact, many groups have a rose week. It competes closely with the 'navratra'. Each day has a particular colour with a particular meaning associated to it. Yellow stands for friendship, and so on. The week sure culminates on the February 14, theValentine Day with the bazzar overflowing with all things red, roses to teddy's to tacky headgears!
Such adolescent affinities apart, a rose is a rose is a rose! There is a something special about this flower. In the trendy and fashionable cut variety, for example, the shape is literally perfect. Personally, I find them a little artificial.
I rather like the natural beautiful roses that bloom on a vine or a bush. They have a divine fragrance, too. The colours are gentle as well. Have you seen a pot full of what is known as Chinese or button roses? They look lovely, too.
Mostly, roses are red, pink, yellow. Oh, yes, in the rose exhibitions year after year, I have seen blue and green roses as well. They have to be grafts, and yet they look a truly normal bloom.
A deeply symbolic flower as far as literature and Christianity are concerned, many love the rose as the queen of flowers. Each to his own. Well, as for me, Mr. Garden has quite a zenana of favourites, the coral flower, the champak (we have three varieties), the jasmine, the night queen, the marigolds, the hibiscus ( in varios sizes, shapes and colours). The list is endless.
We have some unusual ones in our garden. About them, some other time. Given the day and the week, no harm in declaring the rose as the queen of the garden!
Pratima@ A rose by any name might smell the same, it looks vastly different and unique though!
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