A woman from our local rose club has offered that I can go this week and dig up a new plant that has grown from where she had rosa bracteata removed. This is a species (wild) rose and I am thinking of adding it to the banksia normalis that I have planted to grow over my new horse shelter. I am impatient and it looks like the normalis will be lovely in about 10 years and it can stay there but the bracteata grows very quickly and also flowers most of the year. Maybe I will need the horse to keep these two monsters "fringe pruned" where they will (I hope) spill down over the colorbond roof and the horses eating them at Ellie's head height will be perfect. They are planted at the back of the shelter and have to go up vertically for 3 metres or more then spill down over the north facing roof.
The more I read about this rose makes me think how perfect it is for the Queensland readers but then it is not a small rose.
Wow sounds absolutely fabulous Pamela. Sadly nowhere to put something that size here...however I do have some old sheds out at the farm that could use a rose growing over them...might actually help hold the sheds together in fact...LOL. So let us know how it grows.
It suckers well (hence me going to get some roots that have survived) so I may well be able to send you some jacqueline. Perfect for a farm shed! Although notice the "cruel barbs" referred to whereas Banksiae have none of them.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
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Posted - 18/11/2008 : 21:55:41
