According to Greek mythology, red roses first appeared when Aphrodite pricked her foot on a thorn, spilling blood on a white rose. Since then, roses' thorns have captured the imaginations of ...

Portland's professional women's soccer team, slated to begin play next spring, will be called the Portland Thorns. The team unveiled the name and logo, featuring a red rose encircled by thorns ...

By Linda, Everett Public Library staff. Did you know roses have prickles and not thorns? A thorn is a sharp modified stem that grows out of the woody stems of many kinds of trees and shrubs such ...

Rose bushes do not actually have thorns but prickles, which are lateral outgrowths of the epidermis, also found in plants like eggplants. Unlike thorns, which are modified stems or leaves, ...

For many happy years, Italy's No. 2 Communist, Luigi Longo, could sing with Poet Burns: "My love is like a red, red rose." His idyll began back in the 1920s when Communist Longo, then ...

Last year, I received five dozen red roses for Valentine's Day. They were from me. I am a florist in San Francisco, and I couldn't sell as many as I had expected. Even in the most romantic city in ...

I’m talking roses, not rosettes—which have also been absolutely everywhere on the spring runways thus far—but full-on, long-stem roses, with leaves, thorns, and all.