How about celebrating with 1 dozen Euro-cut Medium Stemmed Roses for only $19.99 at either one of our locations. You can also get a dozen roses vased for only $34.99, and add another dozen for only $49.99. A big value for the money. Also, for every $40.00 arrangement you spend this month, you can add 6 roses to that arrangement for only $6.00.
There are many ways to celebrate the official National Floral Emblem of the United States. Here are some ideas for celebrating:
1.Fight the recession blues by adding at least one new rose to your garden.
2.Show your children or grandchildren how to plant and care for roses.
3.Take a Rose to someone you love.
4.Join a local rose gardening club.
5.Begin a garden blog to celebrate your rose garden.
6.Send roses to friends or family.
7.Post photos or videos of local rose gardens on Flickr or YouTube.
9.If you are a scrapbooker, create a special page or whole scrapbook devoted to Roses.
10.Take a shut-in a Dozen Roses.
11.Give a rose plant to a nearby nursing home.
12.Volunteer to help care for the roses at a local park.
Interesting bits of rose trivia:
Since 1986 the rose has been the official National Floral Emblem of the United States.
A rose is the official state flower of: the District of Columbia, Georgia, Iowa, New York, and North Dakota.
George Washington was the first rose breeder in the US.
Roses are native plants in the US.
Roses are big business: 1.2 billion are sold annually.
However you decide to celebrate June and National Rose Month, remember to always "Stop and Smell the Roses".
Steve Huth
Steve's Flowers and Gifts
4 comments:
Roses are my favorite flower, after seeing this post I feel like going to my local New York City Florist and picking up a dozen for myself!
I agree, roses are beautiful. They have so many colors that have all sorts of different meanings... you can't go wrong with roses.
Nice effort, very informative, this will help me to complete my task.
These are really nice ideas to celebrate the national month of roses......i really like the idea of taking roses to people we really love and join some rose gardening club and learn how to really care for this great beautiful species of nature...
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