{"id":695,"date":"2014-07-16T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2016-04-19T19:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:31:32","slug":"roses-of-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/roses-of-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Roses of Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roses, roses, roses. In Maine, June and July are all about roses!<\/p>\n

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Sometime in June one suddenly is aware of a lovely smell that wafts through the air, in the daytime. It can blow in through your car window on a sunny day, or while out sailing, hit you for a quick second as you move across the path of an offshore breeze.<\/p>\n

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The first rose to bloom here is a wild climbing rose, R. multiflora.<\/p>\n

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ROSA MULTIFLORA<\/p>\n

R. multiflora is not native to Maine.
\nOr even to the USA!
\nIt is actually from Japan and Korea,
\nbut has naturalized here.<\/p>\n

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Small single flowers are borne in trusses.
\nThe long limbs of the rose clamber through shrubs, and
\nrush up very high into trees.<\/p>\n

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In the picture above
\nthe rose has climbed up through an evergreen,
\nand reached over to its neighbor,
\nand kept on going!<\/p>\n

The second wild rose to bloom here
\nis the Rosa rugosa.<\/p>\n

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ROSA RUGOSA<\/p>\n

There are both white and pink roses,
\nboth highly fragrant!<\/p>\n

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One sees these everywhere!
\nI have seen them growing in the sand on a beach,
\n6″ from the high tide mark,
\nas well as in a crack in a rock above the ocean.
\nThey are just as at home in a meadow,
\nwhere they will make a
\ndense, thorny thicket.<\/p>\n

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ROSA RUGOSA<\/p>\n

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They are named for their leaves.
\nwhich are wrinkled.
\nBut, are better known for their large hips
\nthat form in the fall.<\/p>\n

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The hips can be made into jam or tea.<\/p>\n

The third rose that has naturalized here is
\nRosa Carolina.
\nIt is seen in meadows,
\nblooming after the Rugosas.
\nIt’s soft pale pink
\nflowers, with heart shaped petals.
\nSeen in sunny meadows,
\nwhere it forms a suckering bush shape.
\nIt is not as large as R. rugosa, nor as fragrant.
\nThe satiny petals
\nhave defied my picture taking ability!
\nI simply have not been able to get a good picture,
\nas the petals reflect the light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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