Today I thought I’d talk about red roses. Yes, you know the ones…
they’re favorites of just about everyone.
You send them when you’re in love.
You send them when you want to be in love.
You send them when you’re in trouble.
You send them when you don’t want to be in trouble.
You send them for a birthday.
You send them for an anniversary.
You send them just because.
And you send them from Roadrunner Florist
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Roses my favorite 🙂
Roses and bodywrapping. I hadn’t thought about that as a combination, but there must be a way! How about a celebrational rose!!
My Wife likes roses… how do we keep them alive more than a few days?
Rob, that’s a very good question. I wish there were an easy answer. Cut roses like to be kept cool. Ideally that means refrigerated, but gee, you don’t want to take them home and put them in your refrigerator!! So the next-best option is to find the coolest place in your home, which means NOT on top of the tv, not in the line of heat coming from a vent, not next to a window or not getting the reflection from a mirror. Then you want to replace the water with cold water every day, and cut the stems every day, too. Roses that you buy from a flower shop are hydrated and shouldn’t need any of the “food” that you get when you buy roses from a grocery or big box store. (I’ll address buying roses/flowers from them at another time). The life expectancy of cut roses in the desert is, unfortunately, 3-4 days. They tend to last longer in humid environments. My suggestion, therefore, is to understand they are a delicate creation and enjoy the dickens out of them while you have them.
The only rose that i to last was one 1 bought when i was in “trouble” and went the gas station and got a rose.. it lasted 3 weeks..
Gee, you splurged at a gas station, huh? The rose probably cost less than a gallon of gas!! I hope you weren’t in trouble for 3 weeks!!!
Love long stem roses!!!
Me, too!!!
I’ll tell you a great story. A few months ago we had an order going to all of the ladies at a local TV station. The sender asked that each lady receive a dozen roses, but not all the same. So we designed vases with a dozen roses: a dozen red. a dozen white. a dozen pink. a dozen yellow. a dozen lavender. a dozen mixed colors. That’s 6, right? I placed them all on the counter and then I got to decide which dozen went to which lady! Well, I know one of the ladies, so I chose the red ones for her. Then I changed my mind. Then I changed it back. And then I changed it back again! When I had all of those colors in front of me, I just couldn’t make up my mind!! I finally put the enclosure cards in a pile, shuffled them, placed each one on a dozen roses, and the colors were chosen by the luck of the draw!!
Yellow roses are one of my very favorite rose. All roses are beautiful, but yellow is my favorite.
Yellow is our second or third best seller, depending on how many people from Texas call us! We always have both colors available in the shop. You’d be surprised how many people love the yellow when they see the arrangement completed. You have chosen a great favorite!
That’s a great list of reasons to buy red-roses, and red-rose petals for the bath must be another one ! also really useful tips about keeping roses longer, I didn’t know most of that !
Thanks! I’ll tell you something else: most hotels won’t allow you to use fresh petals! Evidently they stain the linen! So, we sell silk rose petals. And the advantages are numerous: not only do they not stain the linen but you can collect them and use them over again!
Roses are red, trees are green, where were you when I was seventeen
I was probably a gleam in my daddy’s eye!!
Who doesn’t love getting roses!
You are so right! And men love getting them, too!
Love red roses. Send me some 🙂
Surely you have a loved one that you could send this blog to (hint, hint!) And another idea: use roses in your beautiful homes for photographs.
I love the one in the square green vase with two different kinds of flowers. Very nice.
The Yellow Rose is Texas is stunning, isn’t it? We always carry yellow roses because they are so beautiful!
Love red roses! Your arrangements are fabulous!!!
Thanks, Loretta!
Good hints!
Good questions lead to good answers! Thanks!!
Beautiful Roses… Love them..
Roses are our best seller. Thanks for noticing!
Very cool pictures with pretty roses!
I received pretty flowers like that for my birthday today!!!
YB
Oh, now nice!! A very happy birthday to you!!
Very Nice!!!
Thanks, Todd!! Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses!
Thanks for sharing all those beautiful pics… awesome roses!
Thanks! It’s been fun to show pictures of roses!! Now on to Secretary’s Day and then Mother’s Day (and lots of pretty flowers)
Great blog! Love the way you interact with everyone who comments!
Thanks!! I’m learning that one of the ways to increase visibility on google is through blogging and the other way is through “sharing”. That’s why it’s important to respond to everyone who comments on your blog, and it’s also important to “share” everything on facebook. Comment, comment, comment! Share, share, share!!
Was never a fan of red roses BUT give me roses that have a tint of lavender or purple and mix with yellow roses or other flowers and I am a happy lady.
Are you from Texas? I find ladies from Texas always prefer yellow roses!! I love the lavender. They are always fragrant but they don’t last long (it’s the nature of the beast). Funny, but we usually don’t mix the lavender with another color, probably because the lavender are so exceptional all by themselves! the next time we bring lavender into the shop I’m going to design a dozen with yellow and see how quickly it sells! Thanks for the hint!
Awesome looking roses! Roses always make the day start or end right! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Nate. I think roses are really spectacular, but I can never decide which color is my favorite!
This is a test!!
Red roses are my favorite. I love my bush I’ve had for over 30 years! Yes, that’s right! I love it and each spring I can’t wait for those beautiful long stem red blooms. You hit my favorite!
You are lucky that your bush is 30 years old! They don’t last that long in the desert southwest. There is an Arizona rule of thumb (I don’t know if it’s true where you are): Prune your roses Super Bowl Weekend. It would be fun to know if that’s when you prune yours, too!
These are all lovely pictures! I’ve always loved red roses although pink are still my favorite. They make my heart smile. 🙂
Roses mixed with stargazer lilies – amazingly beautiful!!!!!
I like this arrangement, too. There’s something about the lilies that brings out the beauty of the roses. Or is it something about the roses that brings out the beauty in the lilies?
Roses are beautiful!
I think so, too! I have always loved roses, even before owning the flower shop!! I grew them in my front garden in Denver, and now I get to enjoy them every day!
I love the roses that smell! Is there a specific kind that smells more?
The lavender roses seem to have the most fragrance, I think. Something about the lack of color (the same with carnations … the white ones smell like peppermint!). Sometimes the pink ones have fragrance, but the red ones seldom do. But I’ll tell you this, even though I know there is no smell, I still put my nose into every rose!
Red roses have specific memories for each of us, I’m sure, and we carry those memories forward in how we feel about them. But nothing is stronger than the cultural lore that red roses are all about love!
People ask us “what does the color stand for” and of course the answer for red is love. White is purity. Yellow is friendship (and of course Texas). But the others? It’s really up to personal taste after that. And just because you send yellow or pink or white doesn’t mean you’re not in love! I think the traditional red is a Valentine’s Day color, and we’ve ordered hundreds of red, but we’ll also have white, pink and yellow in the shop that day.
I love those red flowers, i am not sure their name. They have long pointy petals, with white trim. Are those I am sure, lily’s? 7th picture down, I really love that one.
Yes, you’re talking about lilies. Probably stargazers (which you see in the picture). They are a favorite of most people! And very fragrant, too!
Tina, I do love roses whether they are red, white, yellow, pink or variations. I also associate red roses with love. I know that the other colors have specific meanings. I remember my mother stating that on Mother’s Day, if one’s mother had passed, the woman would wear white roses. Actually, I’m not sure if I have the story right. Have you ever heard this?
Sorry, I’m only able to comment with this account. This is Robin. 🙂
Yes, Robin, that is the tradition. If the mother is living, then you wear a red rose. If she is deceased, then a white one. We design many corsages for ladies for Mother’s Day using this tradition. It is beautiful. Thanks!