July 2 is ROSE DAY in Sweden. The name "Rosa" has been used here since the end of the XVIII century, though today it´s rare to find a small girl with this name.

Yesterday I attended an introduction to the Old Roses´ World at the Botanical Gardens in Uppsala. We were a small group (because of the damned Corona!) at the Baroque garden where the oldest rose bushes are kept. From there you have a wonderful view of both the Uppsala Castle (Slottet) and the BlåsenHus from the University (so lucky them; such a view they have from there every day!)

Gunilla Uhlin Friberg guided us through this complicated -I mean really complicated- rose world. Gunilla has a long experience in roses and she has a garden full of them at her Upland home. She is a "rosgalning" (mad about roses). If you start taking care of roses, you shall never come to an end, ´cause it´s an immense world and needs hard work too.

Did you know that the first roses come from the Middle East and Asia? The oldest ones are white, soft pink and pink and the red and yellow roses are originally Chinese. All the original old roses smell more than those hybrids we buy at the flower shops. The hybrids stay longer, but they do not smell.

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Last Sunday I visited HOTEL VILLA ANNA (a tiny, excellent hotel with just eleven rooms at the old town centre in Uppsala, opposite to Helga Trefaldighets church). There was a Wedding Planners exhibit which I loved. You know that I am fond of flowers and this time the winner was Uppsala´s own BLOMSTERRUMET AB (their flower arrangement is the pink one at the middle of my board). Simple but beautiful ideas for a wedding: flower arrangements, tablesettings, menus, jewelry, limousine services, decors, etc. At 15:00 hours we crossed the street towards Helga Trefaldighet to listen to a great organ and piano concert together with a young choir singing wedding music. For those who could not make it, here I send a few pics.

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