National Rose Month

Sometimes you wonder if roses are worth all the trouble-- then June comes around again.

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Exupery, The Little Prince


“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”
Aphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

"For the roses had the look of flowers that are looked at."
T.S. Eliot

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.”
Ernest Dowson

 “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
Maud Hart Lovelace

 “...but from this distance, the velvety reds, flashing yellows and glassy whites [of the roses] seemed to break up the light of the summer sun into its various elements and cast it back far more brilliantly than any other flower ever could, seemed not exactly of the earth, but of space and air itself.”
Jane Smiley, Duplicate Keys

“There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair”
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca