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Famous Quotes:

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. (Mark A. Overby)

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes. (Clare Ansberry)

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. (William Shakespeare)

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. (Hubert H. Humphrey)

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success. (Henry David Thoreau)

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. (Georgia O'Keeffe)

Good taste is the flower of good sense. (A. Poincelot)

Northbrook Florists - Local Resource(s):

Birthday: There is no better way to say happy birthday than with roses in any color. Another great option is an assorted arrangement in a vase or basket combining flowers such as lilies, iris and tulips.

Funerals: Funerals are an emotional time. It has been a long tradition to send flowers at the time of bereavement. White flowers are the most common, typically roses or lilies. Pink or yellow roses are also fairly common. Consult your local florists for more ideas.

Anniversaries: One of the most popular occasions to celebrate with flowers. A dozen red roses in a vase is the classic anniversary gift. Roses of mixed colors or multi colored mixed bouquets also do the trick.

Three separate nationally conducted public opinion polls, dating from 1975-1986, found the rose to be the number-one choice of over 85% of those individuals surveyed.

The most popular rose holidays in the U.S. are Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Christmas.

White roses signify spiritual love and purity.

The rose is the official National Floral emblem of the United States. This legislation was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 7, 1986.

Deep red roses imply unconscious beauty.

Lavender roses mean love at first sight.

Red roses of any hue say "I love you".

About 60% of the roses grown in the U.S. are produced in California.

In 1994, over 1,200,000,000 roses were purchased by U.S. flower buyers. This works out to a per capita consumption of 4.67 roses per person.

Bridal white means happy love.

Orange say "I am fascinated and enthusiastic".

Columbus discovered America because of a rose! It is written that on October 11, 1492, while becalmed in the Sargasso Sea, one of the crewmen picked a rose branch from the water. This sign of land renewed their hope for survival and gave the seafarers the courage to continue on to the New World.

Dark pink roses say "thank you." In general, pale-colored roses signify friendship.

The rose is native to the United States.

Bridal white means happy love.