National Peace Rose Day

The "Peace Rose" has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It was developed by French horticulturist Francis Meilland. In early 1945, Meilland wrote to Field Marshal Alan Brooke, the principal author of the master strategy that won the Second World War, to thank him for his key part in the liberation of France and to ask if Brooke would give his name to the rose. Brooke suggested that a more enduring name for the flower would be "Peace". Its name was officially announced on April 29, 1945, the day that Berlin fell to the Allied Forces and the official end to the war.