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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...
Rosa × damascena ( Latin for damascene rose ), more commonly known as the Damask rose, [ 1][ 2] or sometimes as the Iranian Rose, Bulgarian rose, Taif rose, Ispahan rose and Castile rose, is a rose hybrid, derived from Rosa gallica and Rosa moschata. [ 3] DNA analysis has shown that a third species, Rosa fedtschenkoana, has made some genetic ...
The song "American Beauty Rose" was written in 1950 and popularized by Frank Sinatra . In the musical "Funny Girl", protagonist Fanny Brice humorously refers to herself as an "American beauty rose / with an American beauty nose / and ten American beauty toes" in the song " I'm the Greatest Star ." In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged ...
Narcissus in culture - uses of narcissus flowers by humans; Lime tree in culture - uses of the lime (linden) tree by humans; Rose symbolism - a more expansive list of symbolic meanings of the rose; Apple (symbolism) - a more expansive list of symbolic means for apples
The Peace rose, formally Rosa 'Peace', synonym Mme A. Meilland, is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold. The cultivar has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It is hardy and vigorous and relatively ...
Rosa banksiae Rosa persica. There are currently four subgenera in Rosa, although there has been some disputes over the years. [3] The four subgenera are: Hulthemia (formerly Simplicifoliae, meaning "with single leaves") containing one or two species from Southwest Asia, R. persica and R. berberifolia (syn. R. persica var. berberifolia) which are the only species without compound leaves or ...
71 cm × 90 cm (28 in × 35 in) Location. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Accession. 1991.67.1. Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses was painted in 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy. At the time the work was painted Van Gogh was readying himself to leave the Saint-Rémy asylum for the quiet town of Auvers-sur-Oise outside of Paris.
His designs in this period included 'Larkspur' (1872), 'Jasmine' (1872), 'Willow' (1874), 'Marigold' (1875), 'Wreath' and 'Chrysanthemum' (both 1876). The Morris wallpapers were expensive to produce. A typical Morris wallpaper in the 1870s required as much as four weeks to manufacture, using thirty different printing blocks and fifteen separate ...