If you are tidy about it and lay all your trimmings in the same direction, you can roll them up in a compact wad to discard, as they will adhere to each other nicely. If you try to deal with a loose pile - stems sticking out every which way - one of the errant branches will reach out and grab you...depend on it.
I am well aware that where I did not remove every vestige of root, I will have another rose growing next year. They have very persistent, wandering ways. However, new growth will be weakened and if you are persistent in clipping it back to the ground, the plant will eventually die completely.
I would never recommend spending good money buying this rose, nor time and energy planting it. There are too many more worthy and attractive roses readily available. But, if you've got this rose on your property and have the room for it, enjoy it until you want to rip it out for something else. The wildlife will thank you.
If you choose to keep one, you'll need to do a fair amount of maintenance pruning to keep it within any reasonable bounds. In addition, canes tend to die out in the center and bottom of the plants, requiring a certain amount of painful clearing out.
More shrubs next time. See ya' later!
More Information
More native and species roses that might be the ones growing wild where you are:
- Rosa virginiana, the common wild rose, may be the one you have;
- Rosa arkansana - a Colorado Native;
- Rosa californica, California Wild Rose,
- Rosa carolina,
- Rosa gymnocarpa, Wood Rose
, and
- Rosa gymnocarpa,
- Rosa palustris, Swamp Rose,
- Rosa rugosa
- Rosa setigera, prairie rose.
- For a recipe for Rose Hip Jam (as well as one for persimmon bread) read the Suite's own Melana Hiatt's Winter Harvest Part 1.
- A factsheet for Rosa multiflora
- To learn about the anatomy of a rose, so you will be able to ID one you might have, read Rose Anatomy 101.
Image Credits
Title image and all photos and scans are by Marge.
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