Why Do We Grow Roses?

It seems like such a waste, doesn’t it?

Photo by Victor Malyushev on Unsplash

This year, I planted roses in a bed that’s been waiting for them for years. Many of our neighbors in the trailer park have roses, even though we don’t own the land we live on and have no real impetus to improve it.

Why do we grow roses? Had I made different choices, I could have harvested pounds of vegetables from this bed, which is…