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St Mary's Church Calendar 

June 2008

Events other than regular Church services

Flower for June

Rose

The rose is often used as a symbol for the Virgin Mary. 

Botanical name: Rosa
Other Names: Sweetheart Rose, Hybrid Tea Rose

All roses are symbolic for love, however each colour has a separate meaning. Red means love, respect, courage. Pink means grace, perfect happiness. Dark pink means gratitude. Light pink means admiration, sympathy. White means innocence, purity, secrecy, I'm worthy of you, you're heavenly, humility. Yellow means undying lover, platonic love, friendship. Orange means passion, desire. Blue means extraordinary, mystery. Red and White means unity.

Many rose varieties produce a sweet fragrance. Rose perfumes are made by steam distilling crushed rose petals which produces essential oils. Very popularly used in Persia, Bulgaria, Iran and Germany. As well as being England's national flower, the rose is the provincial flower of Alberta and the State flower of Iowa, North Dakota, Georgia and New York. Portland, Oregon holds an annual Rose Festival. The most popular and well known cut flower, used in floral arrangements, wedding and corsage work by florists. Red roses are the most sought after flower for a Valentine's Day gift. Monk's cultivated rose bushes after the crusades for medicinal uses. Rose water was successful in curing ailments such as trembling, constipation, drunkenness, insomnia and skin and throat infections.

There is no such rose with a true blue or a true black colour. Black roses are generally a deep, deep red where as blue roses are typically purple.

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