Maybe some of you didn't know there was such a thing as green rose blossoms, just green leaves. But I knew. I knew when I was a young child when my grandmother told me about hers that she had growing in her backyard. I found the news hard to believe really. I couldn't imagine rose blossoms being green. It wasn't natural. But then she led me out back and showed me her green rose bush.
In its way, these roses were quite impressive to my young eyes, but only because they were green. Beauty-wise, these blooms didn't hold a candle to the red and pink roses I was accustomed to, or even the white and yellow ones. In fact, they looked sort of looked like mistakes, even mutants.
I felt the same way about this photo (above) that I found on Pinterest. It's the first time I've seen green roses since that day long long ago when my grandmother led me to her flower garden to show me hers. Green roses still seem, well, wrong to me. I'll take beautiful blossoms that don't look like they're trying to camouflage in their foliage, maybe hiding from the plant beetles. In fact, "green roses" sounds sort of oxymoronish to me.
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On 02/27/2023, Barbara Anne said ...
I've never seen or heart of green roses and am astonished your grandmother had such a bush in her garden.
Since we began streaming shows instead of having cable, we found several zoo programs on Disney -> National Geographic and have learned there are many animals common in other parts of the world that we'd neither seen nor heard of. If you have access to The Zoo Downunder (Sydney, Australia) and Tampa Zoo are really interesting shows.
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