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Famous Quotes:

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)

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. (H. L. Mencken)

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. (Herbert Rappaport)

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. (H. L. Mencken)

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. (David H. Lawrence)

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

Harrisonburg Florists - Local Resource(s):

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.

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.

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.

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

Orange say "I am fascinated and enthusiastic".

Deep red roses imply unconscious beauty.

There are nearly 900 acres of greenhouse dedicated to the production of fresh-cut roses in the U.S. One acre of greenhouse rose production in the U.S. is valued at about one million dollars, which includes the value of the plants, greenhouse structure and land.

Light pink roses imply grace, gentility and admiration.

The oldest fossilized imprint of the rose was left on a slate deposit found in Florissant, Colorado. It is estimated to be 35 million years old.

Bridal white means happy love.

White roses signify spiritual love and purity.

Coral roses imply desire.

George Washington, our first President, was also our first U.S. rose breeder.

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.

Yellow roses today signify joy and gladness; historically, they meant a decrease of love and infidelity.

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