All About Roses: Fun Facts, Varieties and Ordering

Roses are probably the most popular among all flowers. There are many species of roses and different colors have different meanings, but all of them means love and beauty primarily. In addition to a wonderful present to lovers, family and friends, rose is useful in food production and essential oil extraction.

- Fun Facts About Roses

1.World Records

The most expensive rose - Juliet

It took David Austin, the rose breeder, 15 years and about $5 million to breed. It was sold for $15.8 million in 2006.

The oldest living rose - around 1,000 years old

It was found on the wall of the Cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany and it was there since AD 815. Rose is also one of the oldest flowers. Archaeologists have discovered rose fossils that date back 35 million years.

The tallest rose - 5.689 m (18 ft. 8 in)

It was achieved by Christopher Rose (USA) in La Puente, California on 8 November 2017.

The largest rose - 33 inches in diameter

It was a pink rose bred by Nikita K. Rulhoksoffski from San Onofre, California.

2.Roses in Different Colors Have Specific Meanings

Roses enjoy a wide variety of colors and each color has a different meaning. When red roses symbolizing love and romance, white roses represent innocence, purity and spirituality and orange roses exude pride, friendship and enthusiasm. You might need this guide to pick the right colour for your floral gifts.

Pink roses - Gratitude, admiration, elegance and sweetness

Yellow roses - friendship, warmth and cheer

Blue roses - Secret or unattainable love

Lavender roses - Love at first sight, unique

3.Roses Hips

It’s a common knowledge that roses can be used as flavoring or filling in food around the world. However, roses also grow a berry-shaped fruit called rose hips, which are rich in vitamin C and used for making jam, jelly, or brewed for tea. Hip seed oil is always used in skin and makeup products too.

- Varieties

Roses come in a stunning array of shapes, sizes, and colors so that there are more than 150 types of roses.

Rosa Carola

Rosa Carola is one of the most common roses in flower stores. Although there are many thorns, it’s gorgeous in bloom and its iconic red color is reminiscent of fiery love.

Rose Peach Avalanche

With a gentle and noble champagne color, it looks elegant and dignified, representing falling in love with you is the greatest happiness of my life.

Rosa Nirvana

From the romantic France, Rosa Nirvana is in light pink with faint fragrance.

Rosa hybrida Hort

This mysterious flower from France has similar but darker color to Rosa Carola with a velvety texture under the sunlight.

Queen's Day

Legend has it that in the Middle Ages, the vibrant orange roses made people smile in the freezing winter. After the Queen saw this gorgeous flower, she asked the maid to pick a rose by the bed every day. Therefore, when the Queen wakes up every morning, there was always a bright rose to remove the haze in her heart. And that’s why people call it Queen's Day.

Noblesse

It’s from Germany. Blooming from summer to autumn, Noblesse has a light and dreamy color of pink, representing romantic and tender love with a flower language of missing you is my sweetest pain.

- GGB Fresh Flower Bouquets

Hong Kong Give Gift Boutique has launched a variety of rose bouquets for different recipients and occasions. Our special collection, 99 Roses, is eye-catching and suitable for gifting lovers during confession, marriage proposal, and anniversary. 2021 French Design Series is a elegant and exquisite gift to lovers, elders, teachers and friends, showing your wonderful taste. The creative Special Flower Series is a perfect choice to surprise your young friends who have unique personality and enjoy chasing trends and our Classics Collection is attractive and available for any recipients and occasions.

- GGB Box Flower

Compared with bouquets, box flowers have the advantages of convenient carrying, novel styles and prolonged flowering period. We design our own exclusive packaging boxes of various shapes and sizes to adapt to the different products. According to the needs and ideas of customers, our design team also customized special leather gift boxes for better texture and higher budgets. The professional florist puts flower mud in the boxes, which makes the maintenance of the flowers easier. And it is also convenient to place on the desktop or windowsill.

- Ordering

Our shop is close to the flower market so that we are able to purchase fresh flowers every day to make exquisite flower gifts for our clients. It is recommended to reserve rose bouquets at least two days in advance.