Rose Gardening – Stop and Smell the Roses – Stay Healthy and Stress Free

Name of the Rose: Secret

Class: Hybrid Tea

Registered Name: HILaroma

Hybridizer – Daniel Tracy/E.G. Hill Co.

Date of Introduction: 1992

This exhibition quality pink blend Hybrid Tea is a winner of the All-America Rose Selections Award in 1994, Portland Best Rose in 1998 and the Gamble Fragrance Award in 2003. It is white with raspberry pink edges and is both excellent on the show table and garden display. It is a medium, moderately thorny, bushy plant with an upright habit, semi-glossy dark green leaves on long stems and produces lots of large high-centered blooms 4 to 6 inches across. It grows 3 to 5 ft tall and 2 to 3 ft across. Blooms come on single stem or in clusters of three or four. Blooms are double (30 to 40 petals) and tend to get larger in cool weather.

Secret is a generous performer giving blooms from late spring to early summer and repeats through to fall. It can be used in beds and borders and if you need lots of fragrant blooms to share with others, plant Secret in the cutting garden in threes so the plants look bushier. It has a strong, spicy fragrance. It is winter hardy and has good disease resistance. Who says modern hybrid tea does not have any fragrance? Secret can perfume a room with just one bloom.

Tip of the Day – Be around positive people who do positive things.

Start the New Year’s with a simple inspirational quote – Stop and smell the roses.

Feeling stressed out? Stop and smell the roses and 100 other tips in a new motivational book will help you get inspired to make positive changes in your lives to make you happy, healthy and successful in 2019. In a frenetic world we live in, we find ourselves overwhelmed, overworked and stressed out. Isn’t it time to change our bad habits? Most of our health problems are due to our unhealthy lifestyle. Studies show that stressful living causes health problems.

Inspire yourself into a healthy lifestyle! Stop and Smell the Roses!

Do you know that roses have curative powers? In the olden days, roses were used to make all sorts of medicinal potions to cure maladies and drive away bad spirits. A bouquet of roses uplifts the spirits any day of the year. Even a single rose in a room will liven it up on dreary days. When we are in distress, a rose will cheer us up. At this time of the year when our own garden roses are not available, get something which is more permanent.

“Stop and Smell the Roses”, a motivational book includes some of the roses I grow in my garden. There are 33 beautiful roses featured in the book in full color. If you are unable to visit a rose garden, this is the next best thing. In addition to the rose gallery, there are simple tips for stress-free living. It is a book worth having near you at all times.

So take a peek at the roses I grow in my garden. Inhale, take a break and stop and smell the roses.

Get your copy today. Available online in paperback and Kindle at Amazon and hard copy at Barnes and Noble.

Until next time. Stop and smell the roses.

Rosalinda Morgan