Many domestic perennial roses are starting to peak here. This is one of our climbing pink varieties:
Below, we see an amazing yellow/gold variety belonging to a neighbor:
There are hundreds of species and tens of thousands of specially cultivated varieties of roses, all in the family Rosaceae and genus Rosa. Scientific reports state that the rose originated wild in nature about 35 mullion years ago and was first cultivated about 5,000 years ago, apparently in China where cultivated roses were thought to be pink originally.
The plant’s English name (“rose”) apparently, was just a transliteration of the Latin genus name (“Rosa”) for roses. However, that genus name, in turn, may have been derived from the German “Roza,” a 13th Century saint. (Brooklin, Maine)