Beside their beauty, roses are treasured for their fragrance, seen as having healing power replacing painful emotions with peace, harmony, clarity, love, and joy.
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"You don't want to be the slave of some plant, do you?" Allen Paterson was director of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton when he asked me that years ago.