Thursday, May 30, 2019

White Wild Roses

Rosa multiflora, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019

Before the seemingly ceaseless rains began, the wild roses came into bloom.  They grow too densely around a wild mulberry tree.  I say 'wild' because I didn't plant the mulberry.  A bird or deer deposited seed-laden poop and voila!  Mulberry.  I don't know how the wild roses got there, possibly the same way as the mulberry, or a previous owner could've planted them, but then other vegetation suppressed their growth, and now conditions are more suited to their re-emergence. 
After blooming I will cut them back, but next year they'll be too dense again.


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