Birthday Confederate Rose for Jan

My Confederate Rose opened this morning, so I felt it befitting a present to Jan for her birthday today! Happy Birthday Jan..One story goes, that the Confederate rose was in bloom during a particularly bloody battle of the Civil War. A slain soldier fell beside a Confederate rose, and his blood spilled into the ground at the base of shrub. The flowers, which had started out white in the morning, absorbed the slain soldier's blood throughout the day, so that by evening they had turned a deep, rosy red. By days end, this flower will also have turned red. This flower is not a rose at all, instead, it is in the hibiscus family.


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