A Gold Rose Is The Perfect Way To Say “ I Love You”

A gold rose, like the fresh flowers themselves, is the perfect way to say “ I love you;” whether it's for Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Birthdays, or just to express your feelings for someone, a gold rose is worth spending your money on.

Rosa x borboniana, is the scientific name for the Bourbon rose; in 1817, from the island of Réunion (once called Île de Bourbon), close to Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, this species of rose was first brought to France. While the background of this rose is not known, it's believed that it is likely a hybrid of the Autumn Damask which was a rose that grew on hedges found on the island. With its recurrent bloom, the Bourbon rose, was a very popular flower in the early 19th century; it was one of the first roses to combine the very best of both European and Asian roses. The color of the original Bourbon rose was a bright pink (which no longer exists today), but there remains hybrids of the Bourbon, which in today's flowers, is still a source of red coloring.

When European and Asian roses were crossed, they also produced  hybrid China class; these were tall plants that were not as attractive as the roses we are used to seeing. In addition, their ability to re-bloom was not very high and on their own, they never became all that popular. They were useful, however, as ancestors for what are now hybrid perpetuals such as hybrid tea roses.

The very first rose that was know to be hybridized in the United States was the Rosa noisettiana, or noisette rose. It was part of the 19th century and was a cross between the musk rose, Rosa moschata, and Rosa chinensis (or the China rose). John Champneys, who was a South Carolina rice grower, hybridized the rose in 1812 and called it 'Champneys' Pink Cluster.' Champneys had no interest in marketing the flower, so instead, he gave his neighbor, Philippe Noisette, a cutting. Noisette went on to send the cutting to Paris, where his brother Louis, was a nurseryman. Louis crossed the cutting – a low-growing rose – with other, much taller roses, and ended up developing a new rose he called 'Blush Noisette.'

From Japan, to the West, in the mid-1800s, came Rosa rugosa – known as the rose of the seashore. It's not a rose that can hybridize well and as a result hasn't contributed to rose history as some others have. For more than one thousand years, however, this particular rose has been of much value for its single flowers, numerous production of hips (the seed pods of roses) which are a great source of vitamin C, and its crinkled foliage.

While the history of the gold rose doesn't go back as far as the real flower, that shouldn't make any difference when deciding on the purchase of one, two, or even three of these beautifully crafted works of art. Like the roses that grow wild on tropical islands or the ones that are lovingly cared for in someones backyard, the gold rose has its rightful place alongside the real thing..

Sophia Grace is a collector of gold rose gifts. You can view a huge selection of gold roses such as red gold rose gifts at Plated Gold Roses.