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During a recent haircut, I mentioned to my stylist that I grew roses, all colors. Which prompted the significantly 
tattooed young woman to lament: “All the guys I date give me only red roses. Why can't they come up with some other color? I like yellow roses. Maybe white ones, too.” My wife prefers the pink one although she's warming up to the white roses I have planted between the pear trees in the back of the garden. I also have an area reserved for miniature roses — about 20 of them. My favorites are the yellow ones with orange fringe. But the monster Ingrid Bergman red rose that I bought this summer at Home Depot is coming on strong. How about you? (AP file photo)
Question: Which color of roses do you prefer? And do you still get/give them?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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girlfridaycda on July 22 at 3:27 p.m.
I like the peach colored, but the yellow w/fringe sound interesting.