"A dozen roses is a choir:

A Single rose is its soloist."

----Karen

 

"I haven't much time to be fond of anything, but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times...the roses get it."

 ---(William) Wilkie Collins

 

All photographs in this Rose Garden collection by BT

July 18, 2005

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

 

 

"He who would have beautiful roses in his garden must have beautiful roses in his heart."

----Samuel Reynolds Hole, rosarian, 1869

 

 

 

 

"Somehow my heart always opens and shuts at roses."

----Douglas Jerrold, "Mrs. Caudles Curtain Lectures," 1852

 

 

 

 

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old time is still a-flying:

And this same flower that smiles to-day,

To-morrow will be dying."

----Robert Herrick

 

 

 

 

"A red florist's rose which has saved more marriages than all the guidance counselors of the world put together."

----Peter Beales,

 

 

 

 

"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

---Thomas Moore