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 ...

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 ...

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 ...