Days of Wine and Roses

Welcome to the World of Rose Gardening or Rose Gardening World.  Take time and smell the roses.  Roses have been around for millions of years which just prove that roses are not difficult to grow. The Rose is also our National Floral Emblem and the state flower of several states.  Here at Rose Gardening World, you’ll find rose articles that will educate you about roses – its history, rose culture, rose profiles and even rose verses all in one place.  So visit Rose Gardening World often. 

The days of wine and roses

Laugh and run away like a child at play

Through a meadow land toward a closing door

A door marked nevermore that wasn’t there before

By Johnny mercer

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer, an American lyricist, composer and singer, was born on November 18, 1909 in Savannah, Georgia.  He won an Academy Award for “Days of Wine and Roses in 1962 with Mancini.  He died in Los Angeles in 1976.