Why Rose Is the Preferred Flower?
Why is the rose the preferred flower during any celebration of love- be it weddings or Valentines? There are many flowers which are more stunningly beautiful than the rose such as tulips or irises or orchids but yet the rose is the valentine flower of choice. Also, there are many different colored roses but yet the blood red rose is considered the flower of love. Why is this so?
We can agree with the color red as being the color of love- but aren’t tulips found in red too? Or the hibiscus? And the extravagantly colored orchids? The color red is associated with the heart- being the central organ in our body that keeps us alive, through which blood is pumped. So yes, the color red is universally agreed upon as the color of love. Still, why the rose? With some research, it is found that the rose is the preferred valentines flower because it represents life beautifully. Life, as we know it, is the combination of the good and the bad. There are bad things that happen in life, and there are the good things. Even in marriage vows there is the sentence that goes ‘in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, till death do us apart’.
So the valentine rose has soft petals that symbolize the soft and good side of living whereas the thorns on the rose stems represent the bad things in life. Life, after all isn’t a bed of roses. So when a valentine rose is given to someone you love, you take out the thorns on the rose, and only give the soft flowers to your lover.
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