"K" wrote in message
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Spider writes

"Sacha" wrote in message
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I've just read about this one in Hyams's book and it's a new one to me.
Is
anyone growing it? He loved it for its thorns!
http://woodlandrosegarden.com/latest...0pteracantha%2
02005-05-22%200002.jpg

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)


I don't grow this one, but I've known about it for a long time. I've
often
thought of using it to supplement patchy areas in my pyracantha hedge. It
would give the burglar something to think about!

Incidentally, I couldn't raise your link. Don't know why. Fortunately,
there is a picture of this rose in my brain. :~)

It's an interesting rose. IIRC, the flowers are 4-petalled, and the thorns
on young shoots glow red with the light behind them. But I've never felt
it's particularly threatening compared to a pyracantha - or even to a good
tangle of R rugosa.
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Kay

Yes, Kay, I'm not sure I'd use it on its own as hedging, but it would
supplement a hedge most effectively. As you say, it's lovely with the light
behind it. I've never seen one growing, so don't know if it would make a
handsome specimen plant.

Spider