While June is the time when flowers appear in their brilliance and colours, it's a month associated with the rose. People born in June have two birth flowers, the rose mainly and then the honeysuckle. While the honeysuckle is also a pretty sweet scented edible flower that brings in butterflies and bees, climbs walls and decorates gardens, it protects against evil spirits according to folklore. Honeysuckle is the secondary June flower, and rose is the first.
There's many types of roses, and the first recorded rose to appear was during the Late Eocene period. Most modern roses are hybrids for gardens, produced for perfumes and hedges. Early cultivation goes back to 500 BCE around the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East and in China. These roses haven't just been ornaments but also as a food and medicine plant. Roses contain vitamin C.
Symbolising love, roses are also sacred to Goddess Aphrodite. Also the origin of roses in Greek mythology comes from Chloris the goddess of flowers. She transformed a dead nymph into a rose, making the most beautiful and sweet smelling flower.
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