The Roses: The Most Popular Flowers

The rose is a shrub mainly characterized by its flowers, called roses and thorns covering its stem, family Rosaceae. The rose is considered by many as the queen of the garden and the rose bush is blooming most frequently used in the decoration of it reaching even the concept of a rose garden, a roof garden of roses only.
The variety in the colors of the roses is huge and is that because this flower so prized for its beauty and aroma, has been the subject of many hybrids that have led to today there are about 30,000 species, but the more traditional even have an associated meaning, are a symbol of love red, white symbol of purity, roses represent appreciation, the yellow express joy, but the more superstitious can see some double meaning, most evoke positive feelings, but there are also black and gray roses represent death and sadness respectively.
The usefulness of the roses in the garden is very diverse, can you make them solid, combined with other shrubs and vines can be used as coating and decoration of walls, it is also interesting cultivation in pots and also can be used to decorate home cut flowers in vases and centers and of course is an ideal gift for any occasion as well as other applications for the manufacture of perfumes and even cooking as their petals are edible and used in the processing of delicate dishes.
The roses are not very demanding as far as soil characteristics refers only need good drainage, as is customary in all shrubs and flowering plants, what is important is to find a location that protects them from the wind and receiving plenty of sunshine to bloom so beautifully.
The only problem is that roses are very susceptible to pests and diseases, so prevention is key to this shrub and is often necessary to spray, we must be careful sprayed the roses, because if we use chemicals petals not be consumed during a reasonable period of time.