A rose, is a rose, is a rose?

A few years ago, I was walking around my mother-in-law's garden when I saw stretching across a large area of her hedge a beautiful single petal rose. I had never seen one before and asked where she had purchased it from. Well she said, "I saw this rose in a friend's garden and asked her the same thing and she laughed and replied this is a friendship rose ... and with that she broke a piece off, gave it to me and told me to put it a good six inches into the ground. If the rose grows from the cutting it is said that your friendship will last forever!"

My mother-in-law broke a piece off the rose and gave it to me ... "Now," she said "plant that cutting and our friendship will last forever, too!"

So ... I planted my 'friendship' rose and it has rambled and multiplied and produces bountiful blossoms every year and not only reminds me of my mother-in-law and the rest of my family but also of the saying 'a rose, is a rose, is a rose.'

Single petal rambling rose