Early in the morning, I found my new Champagne Cocktail rose bush setting with flowers in a form like nothing I have ever seen before... It was early around 6:00am the temperature was 54 degree as I walked my grounds as I normally do each morning with my hands wrapped firmly around my hot cup of coffee, admiring all the new day’s flowers.
Anyways my Champagne Rose came via Rouge Valley Nursery and like most of their roses; it is growing on its own root. Truthfully, it has been a slow starter just now setting it first sets of flowers. Naturally, my camera records these new blooms so I could uploaded them to HMF and add them to my library. The next day (today) I went back to see how the new flowers were holding up and that is when I found that the flowers were closed up much like what my ice plants do each night. I have never seen this before nor read that roses can close up overnight. I guess there is still much to learn about these amazing plants.