Yellow Roses
Mad about yellow
roses? You've come to the right place! At Mr. Roses, we offer a wide variety
of fresh yellow roses and rose petals for your delectation, from the palest
yellow-white to the deepest gold. Yellow roses traditionally represent joy,
friendship, and delight, and are used to welcome a person back after they've
been gone. They also figure in song, most famously in the song "Yellow
Rose of Texas." But yellow roses, despite being a long-time favorite among
rose fanciers, have occasionally gotten a bad rap. In the old days, they symbolized
jealousy, and an open yellow rose was a message that asked, "Don't you
love me any more?" Then too, some say that yellow is the color of insanity
-- and it's still held that yellow roses in a wedding are a prelude to disaster.
We say, "Codswallop!" If you like the color of a rose and it makes
you happy, use it for whatever you like. It's silly to let old traditions get
in your way: make some new traditions for you and yours, and give yellow roses
a try! They're perfect for congratulations, especially to new parents, and will
stand you in good stead on those occasions when you need to express a heartfelt
"I'm sorry."
Whither yellow roses?
Like most of the fecund rose tribe we know and love today, yellow roses originated
in the Middle or Far East. They are mentioned in a tale about the Islamic prophet
Mohammed in the sixth century (in which, sadly, red roses became yellow due
to a wife's adultery), but they didn't appear in the West until the early 19th
century. Curiously, yellow roses arrived along with their red counterparts,
and were used extensively by breeders to produce the extravagant hybrid tea
roses we adore today. The first hybrid yellow tea roses were pale and not particularly
robust, and their color tended to fade away after a few days, so a strong yellow
rose was sought. Later imports from China in the late 19th century added to
the diversity of the Rose genome in the West; and finally, a hybrid yellow tea
rose was produced shortly after 1900. It was descended largely from the bright
yellow Rosa foetida, which as its name might suggest had a rather disagreeable
odor. Ironically, one of the great triumphs of modern rose breeding was producing
yellow roses that smelled good!
Living gold
Looking for a way to capture the heart of that special someone? Try yellow
roses. A dozen rose buds in bright yellow is a classy way to say you care, and
you can be sure that the message will come through loud and clear. Don't let
the depressing old traditional meanings get you down -- this is the 21st century
here, and we can make up new rules! For all your flower rules, you can depend
on Mr. Roses to provide you with a wide range of roses -- yellow, red, white,
pink, even green and blue. So cut loose and buy a few yellow roses for your
Yellow Rose of Texas, or Arkansas, or California, or England…hey, with
the Internet and international shipping, the sky's literally the limit!
