When you think of a rose, the stereotypical red or pink, tightly coiled, long-stemmed (and overpriced ... which are upright bushes on a bare tree trunk. There are also miniature roses.

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Sending flowers on Valentine’s Day has been around for centuries, but it was Queen Victoria who placed the importance of the meaning that flower represented.