[Artemisia] Just a Bit of Spring

[Dawn Tavares]

> > http://www.antiqueroseemporium.com/rose-121.html>> Lovely blossom, but did you notice the amount and size of those thorns? Guess it deserves the name BRIAR rose.> > Tor von Butterberg, OP
 
Your Moosiness,
 
Thorns? Oh, you mean those tiny prickles along the stems?  >:)
Remind me at Uprising to show you the pruning scars on my arms.
Rose growing is the gardener's equivalent of melee battle.
 
As for true thorns, 
 http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/species/wingthorn.html 
R. sericea ptericantha, better known as Wingthorn. A rose from the age of dinosaurs. 
 
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