Queen of the roses

Rosa Mundi (rosa gallica versicolour), one of the oldest roses in cultivation.

When our youngest daughter was little, five or six, she played an ongoing game where there was a fairy for every kind of flower in the garden. She would act out being each fairy, each one having its own outfit which she created out of scarves and odd bits of cloth and such like,tea-towels, bits of tinsel, what ever she could lay her hands on, including plenty of flowers of course.
Rosa Mundi, in her opinion, was the queen of the flowers and therefore queen of the fairies, which necessitated the most ornate of outfits. She spent hours creating these and then swanned around with an imperial manner bossing around the lesser fairies and organising battles against the imps and goblins which were the weeds.

I always remember those days, every year when Rosa Mundi flowers.