All Roses Were Once Yellow. Fortunately For Poets, That Changed

All Roses Were Once Yellow. Fortunately For Poets, That Changed

“Roses are red” is not only a simplistic generalization, but ahistorical in its choice of color.

It bears the title »Queen of Flowers«, the flowers are lush and there are many colours. However, the urrose was probably rather simple, as a large gene study showed.

Say It with a Sonnet

Say it with a Sonnet! Although not all poetry needs to rhyme, one of the oldest and most popular rhyming poetry forms in classical literature is the sonnet. Shakespeare liked them—he wrote over 150 of them! But many other writers have borrowed the sonnet form and have had lasting success. Shakespeare is but one of many poets to use the sonnet as a medium. A sonnet always has 14 lines. There are two variations. One has a scheme of eight lines and…

All roses were once yellow: New study tells the surprising story

Roses come in many colors—red, pink, white, and peach—but a new study shows that they all likely began as yellow. Researchers from Beijing Forestry University in China have discovered through large-scale genetic analysis that the ancestors of today’s roses were yellow, single-petal flowers with leaves made up of seven parts. This fascinating discovery was published […] The post All roses were once yellow: New study tells the surprising story app…