Thank you. I've been thinking about that all day, how roses of all sorts do establish themselves in little spots but do not spread. It seems to me that one important clue is that roses hardly go dormant here. Some just don't: they bloom and produce new leaves all year, only slowing down a little. I do believe this is not just choice of variety: I believe I have seen mention of roses grown elsewhere that go dormant in those places and not here.
So I was thinking: what if that's crucial to the roses' spread? Like we have all these species here that don't germinate without fire. Do rose seeds have to be traumatized to germinate?
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Date: 2006-06-16 10:00 pm (UTC)So I was thinking: what if that's crucial to the roses' spread? Like we have all these species here that don't germinate without fire. Do rose seeds have to be traumatized to germinate?