Roses are greatest known as decorative plants grown-up for their flowers in the garden and sometimes indoors. They have been also used for profitable perfumery and profit-making cut flower crops. Some are used as landscape plants, for hedging and for other useful purposes such as game cover and slope balance. They also have minor medicinal uses.
Ornamental Roses
The common of ornamental roses are hybrids that were bred for their flowers. A few, typically species roses are grown-up for eye-catching or perfumed foliage ornamental thorns or for their showy.Ornamental roses have been cultivated for millennia, with the initial known cultivation known to date from at least 500 BC in Mediterranean countries, Persia, and China. Several thousands of rose hybrids and cultivars have been bred and carefully chosen for garden use as flowering plants.
Cut Roses
Roses are a rare crop for both national and commercial cut roses.They are harvested and cut when in blossom, and held in cooler conditions until ready for exhibition at their point of sale.
In temperate weathers, cut roses are often grown-up in glass houses, and in heater countries, they may also be grown-up undercover in order to make sure that the flowers are not injured by weather and that pest and disease control can be carried out efficiently.
Perfume
Rose perfumes are prepared from rose oil which is a combination of volatile essential oils got by steam distilling the crushed petals of a flower. A related product is rose water which is used for food, cosmetics, medicine and religious practices. The making technique created in Persia and then extended through Arabia and India, and more in recent times into eastern Europe. The oil is transparent pale yellow or yellow-grey in colour. 'Rose Absolute' is solvent-extracted with hexane and produces a darker oil, dark yellow to orange in colour.
Cooking and Drink
Rose hips are occasionally prepared into #jam, #jelly, #marmalade, and #soup or are brewed for #tea.They are also pressed and filtered to create a rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to create rosehip seed oil, which is used in skin goods and some makeup products.Rose water has a unique flavour and is used greatly in #Middle Eastern, #Persian, and #South #Asian cuisine—specially in sweets such as Barfi, baklava, halva, gulab jamun, gumdrops, nougat, and Turkish delight.Rose petals or flower buds are on occasion used to flavour ordinary tea or joined with other herbs to create herbal teas.
Culture
- Art
Roses are a favorite subject in art and seem in #portraits, #illustrations, on #stamps, as #ornaments. The Luxembourg-born Belgian painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté is known for his full watercolours of flowers.
- Symbolism
The long cultural history of the flower has led to its existence used as a symbol. They symbolised the #Houses of York and #Lancaster in a war famous as the #Wars of the Roses
Regards:@Haniya
