Yesterday while cutting the grass (in between the rain drops), I realized that the Wild Rose right at the fence was blooming. It has been some time since I’ve seen any flowers from this bush, so I got my camera out to record the event. 🙂
This fence is pretty much buried under Virginia Creeper. My neighbour loves the Creeper and encourages it to grow all along his fence – but it really does best on the section that is shared with my yard. The Wild Rose was difficult to see under all the leaves of Virginia.
I broke off some of the vine and/or moved some of it to take some pictures – then I got my pruning shears and cleared enough away on my side of the fence to let the light in for the Wild Rose. As soon as I put my camera away, there were a few bees enjoying the flowers.
Very pretty, here that would be called a Dog Rose……i’m sure there is a reason, but I have no idea why 🙂
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Thanks blosslyn – its interesting to find out the different names we call things. 🙂
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Looks like ours is called Rosa Canina meaning dog rose, it’s our native wild rose, but it looks really like the one in your garden 🙂 But its only surpose to live in Europe and Northwest Africa and some parts of Asia, interesting, I wonder of it is the same one…..yes it is the same apparently it was used as a root stock in the US & Canada,but escaped into the wild in about the early 1900’s 🙂 now I know 🙂
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Great to know blosslyn. Thanks for doing the research on it. 🙂
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Thats the bit I enjoy 🙂
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