The roses at Honmaya Rose Park are now in full bloom. Every year, around the holiday season, they bloom in various shapes and colors. I particularly love the large, deep red roses. There are many different types of roses, with tens of thousands of varieties worldwide.
There are 150-200 species of wild roses around the world, all of which are found only in the northern hemisphere, including Europe, North America, China, and Japan.
In the early 1800s, Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, collected wild and cultivated roses from around the world at the Malmaison Palace near Paris, and had her gardeners crossbreed them, a groundbreaking achievement before the laws of genetics were fully understood.
As a result, while the French Rose Catalog of 1791 listed only about 25 varieties, by 1829 it had grown to 4,000. It is said that without Josephine, rose breeding would have been delayed by a century, and she is considered a pioneer of modern roses.
The roses at the park seem to change every year
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