Rose Coloring Pages
Roses belong to the same plant family as apples and strawberries. Look at a rose hip, the little red fruit left behind after the petals fall, and you can see the family resemblance.
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Realistic Roses and Rose Bushes
Roses speak their own language: red for love, yellow for friendship and white for new beginnings.
People with Roses
Roses and Animals
Butterflies
A butterfly that lands on a rose is tasting it. Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet, so they know whether a flower is worth a visit the moment they touch down.
Kittens
Kittens start purring when they're only a couple of days old, long before their eyes open. A kitten sniffing a rose has plenty to purr about.
Roses and Fantasy Creatures
Beauty and the Beast
In the story of Beauty and the Beast, the whole adventure starts with one rose. Beauty only asked her father for a rose, but he picked it from the Beast's garden, and that one flower changed everything.
Dragons
A rose has its own way of guarding its treasure: the prickles on the stem keep hungry animals away from the flower. A dragon guarding a rose bush would be taking no chances.
Fairies
A rose can have dozens of petals, and each one is big enough to be a fairy's blanket. A rose fairy would never have to worry about being cold at night.
Monsters
Climbing roses use their prickles like tiny hooks, which is how they scramble right over walls and fences. A monster would find a thorny rosebush a very nice place to live.
Pegasus
In Greek stories Pegasus once stamped his hoof on a mountain, and a spring burst out of the ground. Any garden with a spring like that would grow wonderful roses.
Trolls
Rose hips are packed with vitamin C, so a troll who tended a rose garden could make jam all winter long.
Fun Facts About Roses:
- Roses are much older than people. Fossils show they were growing more than 30 million years ago.
- People have been cooking with roses for centuries. The petals and hips go into tea, jam and syrup, and rosewater flavours sweets and cakes.
- The Lady Banks rose planted in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1885 is often called the largest rose bush in the world, and its branches cover thousands of square feet.
About roses:
Roses come in all the colors of a summer garden at sunset. There are reds as deep as velvet, pinks as soft as the inside of a seashell, creamy whites, buttery yellows and peaches that blush at the edges, and some have two colors swirling together in a single bloom.
Each rose opens in layers, the petals curling back one after another like a slow, quiet drumroll. Hold one close and you can almost see the whole summer folded up inside.