Could an opportune seedling save have created a new rose?
Last year I discovered a random rooted rose shoot in the compost heap. I was almost certain that it would be a wild rose, seeded by birds, which had taken the opportunity to grab a foothold where possible. However, it had ‘that look’ about it and rather than discard it, I potted it up and nurtured.
It’s grown strongly over the past few months and started to form a bud. Here we go, I thought, a single petalled pretty wild rose about to come my way. Then the bud unfurled and, to my astonishment, revealed a beautiful pale pink flower.
I have absolutely no idea where this rose came from, but am going to nurture it with great care over the coming months. Have I created a new rose variety? Probably not, but I’m not going to scoff at a new freebie plant for my collection.
A new rose? Who knows, but it’s certainly a free rose for my garden.
UPDATE
Final Flower
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Living in the grey smog of London utopia, I forge my little existence in a slightly loopy, hermity, hippy manner, sharing my life with the hens, cats and other menagerie that have somehow taken over my life.
If I'm not enjoying the great outdoors with my netbook in hand, I'll be snipping, pruning, planting, cutting, propagating, shovelling, or just plain admiring. You can even catch the occasional glimpse of me on the TV now and then!
Take the weight off for a while. Sit back, relax, read, send me feedback, but mostly just take a moment and look around you.....mother nature is beautiful.
Geoff Wakeling
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A free plant is always good! I always like flowers that seed themselves every year like forget-me-nots, you only sow the seed once and the you’ve got them forever!
A rose by any other name – or provenance – would smell as sweet…
I love free plants (just yesterday I collected seeds from wild chervil and hope that it will grow on the banks of my small stream), and I regularly find remnants of perennials or shrubs in my lawn that previous owners have disregarded and forgotten. This, sadly, means that my lawn is spotted with holes where I have dug up something that doesn’t deserve to be mowed!
I love a good free plant. It’s developed into a beauty so I’m going to give it A LOT of nurture