Beauty In The Sunlight
by D Hackett
Title
Beauty In The Sunlight
Artist
D Hackett
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Beauty In The Sunlight by D Hackett
This amazing two toned rose was see while visiting a local garden here in rural Florida.
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Fun Rose Facts
The rose is the official National Floral Emblem of the United States. This legislation was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 7, 1986. The rose is also the state flower selected by Georgia, Iowa, New York, North Dakota and the District of Columbia.
Three separate nationally conducted public opinion polls, dating from 1975 to 1986, found the rose to be the number one choice of over 85 percent of those individuals surveyed.
George Washington, our first president, was also our first U.S. rose breeder!
In 1994, over 1,200,000,000 roses were purchased by U.S. flower buyers. This works out to a per capita consumption of 4.67 per person.
The rose is native to the United States. The oldest fossilized imprint of a rose was left on a slate deposit in Florissant, Colorado, which is estimated to be 35 million years old.
There are nearly 900 acres of greenhouse area dedicated to the production of fresh cut roses in the U.S.
About 60% of the roses grown in the U.S. are produced in California.
One acre of greenhouse rose production in the U.S. is valued at about one million dollars, including value of plants, greenhouse structure and land.
The most popular rose holidays in the U.S. are Valentines Day, Mothers Day and Christmas.
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