Lining the ramp at the Library are these small red roses that bloom all summer long. I'll have some in my garden some day. They're gorgeous.
Wish I knew their name
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Amateur shots of Stony Brook, Long Island, and surrounding communities
3 comments:
They are beautiful.
Good Morning!! I think that those roses are in the 'species' category. If so you are in a great position to do some 'rose rustling' as it is called back in TX. Quietly pin a couple of the branches in the back down to the ground. They should readily take root within a few months. Or look for branches that have already done this by themselves. Then you can cut it loose from the parent branch, dig it up and plant your pups in pots.
I have done this very successfully. Right now I have a white species rose captured in a pot and it is doing fine. In fact, I discovered earlier this year that several of the branches touched the ground and rooted themselves.
This rose rustling is an avid activity in TX. It seems that the early families moving west brought their roses with them and planted them in their homesteads. Many years have passed and the homesteads have disappeared but the roses have taken over. Rose rustlers look for these old roses, working to identify them to the older roses that came from Europe before the big hybridizing efforts took place - it's a big deal there.
You go, you rose rustler, you!!!
That sounds like a good technique, Biddie. I would do that if it weren't such a high-traffic public area. In Texas that must be a very successful way to get old roses.
The name: Of course I could ask inside (Reference librarians know everything).
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