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  • Re: green roses

    From bruce bowser@21:1/5 to Carol Castaldi on Sun Oct 9 09:40:43 2022
    On Saturday, March 15, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Carol Castaldi wrote:
    The green rose is Viridiflora and you can find a
    picture of it (p 104) in Phillips and Rix, "The Quest for
    the Rose." Truly a botanic oddity, as someone here said.
    Last December we stopped at Heirloom Old Garden Roses in
    Oregon and picked up several dormant own root roses, including
    Viridiflora. Due to snow and stuff, they sat on our back
    porch until mid January when I planted the Viridiflora at the
    drip line of a blue-green Eucalyptus. It took off immediately
    and appears to be very hardy as we have had several ice storms
    and small snow storms since it was planted and it just keeps
    on growing.
    Carol Castaldi
    cm...@halcyon.com in Seattle

    I wonder if those are edible.

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  • From roseseek@aol.com@21:1/5 to bruce bowser on Mon Oct 10 09:30:53 2022
    On Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 9:40:44 AM UTC-7, bruce bowser wrote:
    On Saturday, March 15, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Carol Castaldi wrote:
    The green rose is Viridiflora and you can find a
    picture of it (p 104) in Phillips and Rix, "The Quest for
    the Rose." Truly a botanic oddity, as someone here said.
    Last December we stopped at Heirloom Old Garden Roses in
    Oregon and picked up several dormant own root roses, including
    Viridiflora. Due to snow and stuff, they sat on our back
    porch until mid January when I planted the Viridiflora at the
    drip line of a blue-green Eucalyptus. It took off immediately
    and appears to be very hardy as we have had several ice storms
    and small snow storms since it was planted and it just keeps
    on growing.
    Carol Castaldi
    cm...@halcyon.com in Seattle

    I wonder if those are edible.
    They would be as edible as the rose foliage would be, particularly as long as you have not used anything systemic on the plant.

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