That's a freakishly awesome looking rose

It's called an "Abra Cadabra" rose breed-wise.

I must BREEEEED these in my LABORATORY!!! BAHAHAHA!!!



sorry, I have a thing for Roses. :} Especially crazy ones.

You would have loved my old house in So Cal then... We had five old-growth rose bushes out front. Now, most people who grow roses know that you need to trim them in the winter to keep them from growing wild. Well, these bushes were SOOOOOOooooo old (Around 30 years old) that "trimming" them meant cutting them back until they were nothing but stumps. "Stumps? Yeah, I've seen rose stumps. Cute little things." Sure... Have you seen rose TREE stumps? These "stumps" were around 12 inches in diameter. These could easily have been rose trees, but my dad wanted to keep them bushes.

So.... one of the bushes was a red velvet rose bush. The kind of roses whose petals literally look like thick velvet in the sun. The cool thing about this bush was that it didn't grow single roses on a stem. It grew rose explosions. One stem would grow up and then explode into a bouquet of around 7-10 roses that all bloomed at once.

When our neighbor across the street showed interest in our roses, we gave her several canes from our bushes. The red velvet bouquet cane grew very well, and outdid itself. The new rose offspring across the street grew well over 20 roses per stem burst. One stick at the bottom, 20+ roses on the top just twelve inches away. How's that for overcompensation?

Now that's just fucking awesome dude.


I'm all jealous o.o I just moved from So-Cal too

I think... One of the things that saddened me the most was that when my parents sold the house and moved to Oregon, the new owners were quick to rip out the old growth roses and replace them with stupid little "put the pot in the ground and replace it when it dies" flowers. :(

I just never really did have a place to keep any of the canes, or I would have taken them before the bushes were sold.

Now that's a damn shame :/


Stupid ignorant people