I’ve been humming “Every Rose Has it’s Thorn” for a week. 🌹🌹🌹

Music by James Milor and LuminousPresence from Pixabay

Information provided by:

• Flowers and Their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms by Karen Azoulay (2023)
• Herbaceous: Growing, Harvesting, and Using Herbs by Sarah Baker (ed.) (2003)
• https://bouqs.com/blog/roses-meaning-symbolism-what-roses-signify/
• https://www.britannica.com/plant/rose-plant
• Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (2nd ed.) by Scott Cunningham (2014)
• Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow Lives of Plants by Fez Inkwright (2021)
• https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/rosa/
• The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Greatest Drinks by Amy Stewart (2013)
• Genetic relationships and evolution of old Chinese garden roses based on SSRs and chromosome diversity by Jiongrui Tan, et al. (2017) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15815-6
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_symbolism