"View of the city of Sliven and the eastern Upper Thracian Plain from southern Balkan Mountains": Evgeni Dinev (Evgord), CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karandila2.jpg
Flower Festival Commemorative Park, Kani, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan: T. Kiya, CC BY SA 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/38217580@N05/7169012377/
"Autumn Colour": Amanda Slater (amandabhslater), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/pikerslanefarm/8105679449/
illustration by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret (1855-?): Journal des Roses(Sept 1894), Tome XVIII, opp. p. 136, Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9558906; via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/journaldesroses1820pari/page/n162/mode/1up
Rosa 'Général Jacqueminot', Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid: A. Barra, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_'General_Jacqueminot'.jpg
illustration by J.R. Guillot (?): Journal des Roses, Tome XXVII (Février 1903), opp. p. 24, Public Domain, via Internet Archive, Public Domain, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/journaldesroses00unkngoog/page/n37/mode/1up?view=theater
painting by Claude Sébastien Hugard de la Tour (April 1818-1886): Jules Gravereaux, Les Roses cultivées a l'Haÿ en 1902, opp. p. 38, Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15285004; via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/lesrosescultiv00rose/page/n50/mode/1up?view=theater
Norman pavillion and reflecting pool, Roseraie du Val-de-Marne (formerly Roseraie de l'Haÿ): Capodel (C. Potez-Delpuech), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pavillon_normand.jpg
Hermitage Museum collection, St Petersburg, northwest Russia: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emprjose.jpg
painting by Claude Sebastien Hugard de la Tour (April 1818-1886): Jules Gravereaux, Les Roses cultivées a l'Haÿ en 1902, Plate 5, opp. p. 90, Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15285081; via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/lesrosescultiv00rose/page/n108/mode/1up
"Gathering Roses at Kazanlik": William Le Queux, An Observer (1907), Chapter V, opp. page 224, Public Domain, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/observerinnearea00lequrich/page/n324/mode/1up?view=theater; via Project Gutenberg @ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/65766/65766-h/65766-h.htm#Page_225
"Testing Otto [Attar] of Rose at Kazanlik": William Le Queux-An Observer (1907), Chapter V, opp. page 224, Public Domain, via Internet Archive; via Project Gutenberg @ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/65766/65766-h/65766-h.htm#Page_225
"Rose botanique "Roseraie de l'Hay" / Cochet ~ La roseraie du Val-de-Marne (l'Haÿ-les-Roses)": Annie Dalbéra anniedalbera, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/20651668@N07/7256754272/
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cmoneyspinner, Yes, all of your descriptors apply to roses! What's amazing about roses is how alike they are and how subtly different they are, but all are beautiful and fragrant.
Thank you for pinning! These two roses have a special place in my heart.
Stunning! No. Gorgeous! No. Beautiful! No. Lovely! All of this and more! I always loved roses. There are so many varieties. Like orchids. So like ... no matter what kind of rose, do they all have thorns? No matter. I'll love them just the same. Thorns and all! Pinning.