I’m thinkin’ mama might have to stick to growing nasturtiums, haha.
Well, mama went out into the garden AGAIN without her long protective gloves on to take yellow leaves off of the roses and clean them up a bit before their first little prune and of course she stuck herself with a HUGE rose thorn…will she ever learn?
But it didn’t swell up like the last puncture thank heaven! That one was really a first in her rose growing life…her hand went double size in about a minute and she had to take antibiotics for four days.
Hey, I LOVE roses (they decorate MY…er…private salle de bain) but I have advised mama that there are actually roses that have no thorns! I didn’t know that a few years ago when mama was getting some new ones, roses that is, not thorns.
WOW — there are things called Child Friendly Gardens with thornless roses! Hey, perfect for mama, haha.
It’s a sticky business growing roses…
But oh, so worth it…
Well..they sure are worth it, LouLou, and yours are beautiful and so soft on top😸Pawkisses for a Happy Thursday🐾😽💞
Haha, yes, the tops are really soft compared to lower down. But thornless has mama’s attention.
Such pretty roses!
Thank you…getting rained out right now….but more to come.
Oh dear, Loulou I hope your mama’s hand gets better soon. Those roses are so gorgeous though.
She only has a little scratch this time, thank heaven. Thank you for being so concerned!
Ooooh – so beautiful – and thornless roses?! That sounds like a GOOD thing!Then we can smell them without getting pricked – Had no idea they could be so dangerous!We don’t see a lot of roses in the gardens here – but lots of big puffy white flowers – so beautiful! Well, today is HELL – lots of rain today – all day. That means the dreaded raincoat – and getting my paws wet. You’re lucky you don’t have to be walked!!!!
No, but I have to do my toilette INDOORS and I would rather be in the garden, all neat and clean….
Pretty things can sometimes hurt. One of life’s many lessons.
OOH, that’s a good one! I’m trying to think of something else…maybe a coral snake? They are really pretty, haha.
We have multiflora roses wild all over – to kill them off requires napalm and a bulldozer – so just mowing the lawn to close to the edges can male you a pincushion. But thank goodness we have never had a reaction like Mama did – and we hope she never does again !
They were originally introduced by Louis Bromfield, the Malabar Farm innovator. Many an Ohio farmer – especially one nearing 80 – will go into a frothing rant about this. They were supposed to be marvelous natural fencing. Which they certainly are. They spread underground, they spread by touching branch tips to the soil and sprouting that way…If the Battles of The Wilderness (1863 & 1864 had included multiflora rose instead of the natural undergrowth there, there would have BEEN no battles, because NOBODY could have gotten in.
They bloom nicely, they smell wonderful, the birds love the rose hips. I had one at the end of the driveway when we bought the house, and when it began to block the driveway, I vowed to take it out. I cut it down to the ground. I burned all the branches. Then I dumped the hot ashes on the base and upended the burner barrel over them. Two weeks later I removed the barrel and found lovely new green shoots.
So better that Mama stick with (pardon the pun) what she knows.)
WOW, what a story, Mary! And they sound a lot like bamboo, which moves secretly underground and then suddenly you have a WALL of bamboo. There is a funny little skinny weed in our garden that does the same thing, but he can be pulled out easily. He just LOVES to sneak around and pop up in weird places.
Those pretty flowers sure have a mean bite!
Hey, we’re headed toward thornless so that mama can be a child in her garden, haha.