Color Guide

Flowers and their color influence emotion.  Choosing the right color and type of flower for your occasion can complete this special gift.

White Flowers
Tranquility, peace, elegance, sympathy, or celebration of life, innocence

Rose911.com Popular White Flowers: Calla Lilies, White Oriental Lilies, Orchids, White Peruvian Lilies, Daisies, Gerbera, Ivory, and White Roses

Pink Flowers
Light pink flowers represent grace, sweetness; welcome home a baby girl, someone Special, thoughtfulness. Medium to Hot Pink flowers represent, sassiness, laughter, femininity, flirtatiousness

Rose911.com Popular Pink Flowers: Light pink roses, Medium pink roses, Hot pink roses, Gerbera, daisies, Pink Peruvian Lilies

Red Flowers
Red is the color of romance.  Red flowers express love, but did you know it also expresses courage and beauty? An emotionally charged color, red is the way to go when you want to let someone know just how much you love and care for them.

Rose911.com Popular Red Flowers: Red Roses

Yellow Flowers
Like a sunny day, sending yellow flowers can brighten anyone’s mood.  When you want to let someone know they are special, show gratitude and appreciation, or just say “Thinking of You!” send yellow flowers.

Rose911.com Popular Yellow Flowers: Yellow Roses. Gerbera, Daisies

Blue/Purple Flowers
Cool and unusual, blue and purple flowers can be used to convey a peaceful and calming message.  A neutral meaning, send to a friend, family member, or lover to let them know just how much they mean to you.

Rose911.com Popular Purple Flowers: Purple roses, blue roses, Mini Carnations, Gerbera, Peruvian Lilies, and Orchids.

Orange Flowers
Orange is associated with the warmth of the sun.  Orange also represents energy, vitality, and endurance.  A perfect flower color for men, it is our most popular Father’s Day color rose!

Rose911.com Popular Orange Flowers: Orange roses, Mini carnations, Gerbera

Bi-Color or Assorted Color Flower Arrangements
While a bi-color rose is unique and unexpected, surprise someone special with one of our beautiful bi-color rose bouquets.  Is one emotion not enough to convey?  Send an Assorted Color Flower Arrangement.  With a mixture of color, fragrance, and flowers, really wows someone’s senses.

Rose911.com Popular Assorted/Bi-color Flowers: Confetti Bouquet, Bi-color roses, Assorted Stem Flower Bouquets.

 

Roses

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2–5 metres tall, occasionally reaching as high as 20 metres by climbing over other plants.

The name originates from Latin rosa.

The vast majority of roses are deciduous, but a few (particularly in Southeast Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.

The flowers of most species roses have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.

The aggregate fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Rose species that produce open-faced flowers are attractive to pollinating bees and other insects, thus more apt to produce hips. Many of the domestic cultivars are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g. Rosa pimpinellifolia) have dark purple to black hips. Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, the hypanthium, which contains 5–160 "seeds" (technically dry single-seeded fruits called achenes) embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs. Rose hips of some species, especially the Dog Rose (Rosa canina) and Rugosa Rose (Rosa rugosa), are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as thrushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly finches, also eat the seeds.

While the sharp objects along a rose stem are commonly called "thorns", they are actually prickles — outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem). True thorns, as produced by e.g. Citrus or Pyracantha, are modified stems, which always originate at a node and which have nodes and internodes along the length of the thorn itself. Rose prickles are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as Rosa rugosa and R. pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight spines, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots (both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes). Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer. A few species of roses only have vestigial prickles that have no points.

Flowers

A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds. The process begins with pollination, is followed by fertilization, leading to the formation and dispersal of the seeds. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. The grouping of flowers on a plant are called the inflorescence.

In addition to serving as the reproductive organs of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans, mainly to beautify their environment but also as a source of food.

Each flower has a specific design which best encourages the transfer of its pollen. Cleistogamous flowers are self pollinated, after which, they may or may not open. Many Viola and some Salvia species are known to have these types of flowers.

Entomophilous flowers attract and use insects, bats, birds or other animals to transfer pollen from one flower to the next. Flowers commonly have glands called nectaries on their various parts that attract these animals. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar. Flowers also attract pollinators by scent and color. Still other flowers use mimicry to attract pollinators. Some species of orchids, for example, produce flowers resembling female bees in color, shape, and scent. Flowers are also specialized in shape and have an arrangement of the stamens that ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the pollinator when it lands in search of its attractant (such as nectar, pollen, or a mate). In pursuing this attractant from many flowers of the same species, the pollinator transfers pollen to the stigmas—arranged with equally pointed precision—of all of the flowers it visits.

Anemophilous flowers use the wind to move pollen from one flower to the next, examples include the grasses, Birch trees, Ragweed and Maples. They have no need to attract pollinators and therefore tend not to be "showy" flowers. Male and female reproductive organs are generally found in separate flowers, the male flowers having a number of long filaments terminating in exposed stamens, and the female flowers having long, feather-like stigmas. Whereas the pollen of entomophilous flowers tends to be large-grained, sticky, and rich in protein (another "reward" for pollinators), anemophilous flower pollen is usually small-grained, very light, and of little nutritional value to insects.