The rose has been acclaimed in an almost endless number of ways. The month of June has been set aside as National Rose Month since 1969. The rose inspires fashion, interior design, sculpture and architecture. It is the design theme for countless patterns of silver, china, wallpaper, carpet and clothing. The bed of roses is one of the most popular motifs for spreads and coverlets.
Fairy tales carry themes of roses to children.
Grimm s Beauty and the Beast, for example, characterizes the rose that Beauty s father picked in the Beast s castle garden. In Alice in Wonderland, the gardeners painted white roses red to please the Queen of Hearts. Royalty The rose is called the Queen of Flowers. While roses are readily available to all of us, they also have been known to hob nob with royalty. The King of Sweden, for example, sent Silvia Sommerlath, now his wife and Sweden s Queen, one dozen yellow roses every day during a four-year romance.