Roses
Many years ago my husband gave me a yellow rosebush to replace one that got
ruined when he was digging a new foundation to enlarge our cellar.
After
a number of years, I was very startled to see red roses blooming on my yellow
rosebush. I thought I wasn't remembering accurately, but yet, I was sure it had
been yellow. Finally someone explained to me what had happened.
The
yellow rose had been grafted onto a wild rose root. Over that last winter, the
yellow rose had died, but the wild root survived and sent up the wild red roses.
They are soft, open roses. They bloom every two years. Two summers ago, I almost
dug it up to throw it away because it looked dead. I got the roots uncovered but
there I saw a little bit of green sprouting. I decided to give it another chance
to grow. It did grow well but didn't bloom that summer. It didn't bloom last
summer either, but this year, it did bloom, rather gloriously. I really liked my
yellow rose, but I appreciate my red roses which have replaced it since the
yellow part died.
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I have a whole backyard of those...my renters let them all die, and now they are pretty in their own way, so I just left them.