Sometimes I visit the Oakland Rose Garden, where a bewildering variety of roses can be found. It's a great place for flower photography, but I must admit I know very little about the types of roses I am photographing.
My main guidebook through this part of the botanical world is a book put out by the American Horticultural Society called The Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers (DK Publishing, Cavent Garden Books, American edition, 2007, New York).
This guidebook notes that there are at least 150 Rose species and thousands of cultivars, that they are members of the genus Rosa, and that they are northern hemisphere plants from a variety of different climates.
I have a few roses in my garden, inexpensive varieties I found at a local drugstore when they were on sale. One of them, a small but beautiful red rose, started out two feet high when I planted it, but has grown and grown and grown, and is now over 20 feet high, climbing right up a nearby tree !
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From time to time I shall post various floral photos I have taken over the past few years. See more at http://www.Zazzle.com/Florabunda, where hundreds of my floral products are available.
