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(57,073 posts)George McGovern
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(57,073 posts)Lovely!
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(5,420 posts)wryter2000
(46,082 posts)That's a pretty complex bloom. Are you sure it's wild?
George McGovern
(5,420 posts)I mean, we've never taken any care of it. It was partly sheltered from the wind for the first fifteen years by a shed, which we took down and the bush has survived, flourished even, since. Thank You!
paleotn
(17,989 posts)and it's tough. Very tough. One of the good things about most rose cultivars is they can take a licking and keep on blooming thanks to their rootstock. Years ago at our place down south we had an old pasture covered with multiflora thickets, some taller than I am, along with wisteria gone wild and poison ivy vines as thick as my wrist. Each was just as tough as the others.
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)the multifloras are white blooming (shrub rose type with loose heads).
That pic looks like one of the popularly-planted "Peace Rose" cultivars (a hybrid tea). I know we had one as I was growing up moving to another house in 1968 where there had been an old rose garden. My mother ended up planting a climbing "Blaze" rose against a wall at the back of the yard (there was an old "New Dawn" that was fragrant as hell that had also been growing there cascading from another property up the hill, and down over the wall).
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(5,420 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)and would often do a smaller 2nd bloom in late summer, especially if you pruned the early blooms. My mom loved flowering shrubs so she would prune as they bloomed and bring sprays of flowering branches inside to put in vases throughout the growing season. There were some strategically-placed large cup-hooks inserted in the wall (wall was field stone blocks) so that the canes could be tied and secured against the wall.
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(20,264 posts)Peace, good health and a safe path be unto you and yours. And of course, Shadow and Kitteh❣