Talk:Rose

Aren't all the Rose species from the Northern Hemisphere? Wetman 18:08, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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I removed the following content (from near the end):

Rose is also the name of a video game character. See Rose (video game character).

I felt it was too broad. There are scores of characters of every kind called Rose, and as there's no article on her/him, I didn't think it was much of a loss. There is definitely room for a Rose (disambiguation) page, though, where one can put all the Mary Roses and Amy Roses and Gypsy Rose Lees and video game Roses and the rest.

--Suitov 15:29, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Images

I chose the cultivar rose for the top image because that is the most familiar form of rose to the general audience - the Rosa arvensis (if that is what it is, hard to be sure from the picture) looks more like an apple blossom than anything else, plus it's an off-balance image, very disconcerting. Also, multiple images along the side need to either be table-ized or spread out more - right now the HT pic is throwing everything off. Stan 06:40, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree about the photos needing to be put into a table. I've been meaning to do that. Now I did. I also adjusted the size of the thumbnails so the vertical images are the same size as the horizontal images. That is, the horizontal image was 180x120 while the vertical images were 180x270. Now they are 210x140 and 140x210 respectively.

As for the top image, I don't have a problem with the current image since it IS a rose, after all. I suppose an argument could be made for a garden rose but I don't think it's necessary. As for it being off balance, it's perhaps hard to see in the thumbnail but there are leaves on the left that do balance it some. I think it's a decent picture. I don't feel strongly about this. Henryhartley 23:15, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

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I've also heard it said that a yellow rose stands for friendship; has anyone else heard this interpretation while growing up?

yellow for friendship

a quick google search for rose color turns up tons of hits indicating Yellow is for friendship and not dying passion. --Adam Katz 23:21, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

commons:Rosa

this page on commons seems to contain a huge mixture of roses (at the top is says rosa sp but that doesn't appear to be an abreviation for any of the species listed here). Would someone knowlageable about the subject mind possing over and properly categorising theese images. Plugwash 17:09, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)