On Oct 30, 8:05 pm, Elmo wrote:
HettieŽ said (on or about) 10/30/2007 19:28:
Jim wrote:
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html
about 3 years ago a friend gave us a dead looking stick and told us if
we planted the stick in the ground and watered it once a day for two
weeks we'd get a Confederate Rose bush.
I decided to play along thinking there would be some great future
laughs concerning how I was tricked into planting a dead looking stick.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/t...rate-Rose.html
well, the friend was not playing a joke. now I get to enjoy taking
cuttings from this bush and telling other friends how if you plant
this dead looking stick in the ground you'll get a Confederate Rose
bush.
been kind of neat watching this bush being propagated into the yards
of friends.
That "rose" has palmate leaves which I have never seen on a rose before.
Usually they are compound. The blooms and buds sure look like roses.
Looks like okra leaves. Hibiscus?
Does anyone know its botanical name or another common name for it? I
doubt it would be cold hardy in my zone. I would like to see if there
is anything like it on helpmefind.com.
The only other rose I saw with very unusual leaves was what some thought
might be an alba; instead of the usual five of 7 leaflets on one stem,
it had several more pairs than that.
I have just learned that roses may root from "sticks" if you put them in
the ground when they are dormant. So when you say "stick", I assume
that there are no leaves and that it was dormant when you put it in the
ground. It must root easily; sometimes it helps to use rooting powder,
but I guess them thar Confederate roses root like Forsythia.
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I'm sure I;ve seen this in Red growing on roadside in Mid Tennessee.