After seeing what the native Woods rose looks like right now, I'm almost ready to remove my roses and plant these. My roses are just scraggly thorny branches right now, and these
Rosa woodsii in the neighborhood will look like this all winter. True, they only bloom for a brief period in the spring, and flowers are small and single. But bushes form a nice shape, they have colorful fall leaves, and you can't beat the show of the hips. My rose hybrids produce a lot flashier show in May, but rather scraggly bloom the rest of the summer, no fall color and nothing attractive in the winter.
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| Look at these hips! |
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| Striking against the New Mexico sky. |
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| So beautiful in the New Mexico landscape. |
