"Sunflower" wrote in message
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"Elizabeth" wrote in message
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Anybody good with species roses? The white flowered climbing rose is
blooming in Southern Louisiana right now. .
If anyone knows the name of this beauty, I'd be very grateful to learn
it.
Thanks,
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elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA
http://community.webshots.com/user/elott63


It's rosa lavegata which actually isn't a naitive, but and invasive
foreigner that has naturalized itself throughout the Lower South, much
like
multiflora has throughout the Midwest and South. It's tender, and won't
grow much beyond zone 7 unless given winter protection.

Sunflower
MS 7b



Thank you for the information. I wouldn't have guessed it's invasive. The
one on my property has not spread in 8 years. In fact I can't even find it
except during the couple weeks in spring that it is blooming! It has
scrambled up a large tree but it is prettier than most of the vines in the
trees :-)
Thanks again, elizabeth