Bridal Flowers, Wedding Flowers, Red Roses, Pink Roses, White Roses, Cream Roses

• Roses and Royalty

The rose is called the "Queen of Flowers". While roses are readily available to all of us, they also have been known to "hob nob" with royalty. The king of Sweden for example, sent Silvia Sommerlath, now his wife and Sweden’s queen, one dozen yellow roses every day during a four year romance. That adds up to 1,461 dozen ... or 17,532 individual flowers.

Queen Elizabeth and princess Grace are among those who have had a rose named after them.

Today's roses are the result of centuries of genetic reshuffling, the work of both nature and man. Rose hybridizers have been able to combine and recombine genes for constant improvement. The results have been new colours, textures, forms, fragrances, and disease resistance.