#rose shrub

[heaveninawildflower]

A sparrow on the branch of a rose shrub (Japanese).

Watercolour.

Image and text information courtesy Wellcome Collection.  CC BY

[perikali]

The Thousand-Year Rose

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Feast your eyes on the oldest living rose on the planet!

“Growing up the side of a columnar portion of Germany’s Hildesheim Cathedral, the now-bushy flower is thought to have been planted in the early 800s, when the church itself was founded. The hearty plant slowly crept up the side of the apse for hundreds of years, and still continues to bud and bloom each year, producing pale pink flowers once a year (usually around May).While the rose bush looks as though it’s big enough to have been growing for a thousand years, the plant has been nearly destroyed a number of times throughout its history. Most notably the bush was nearly completely razed during the Second World War when Allied bombs annihilated the cathedral. Every bit of the plant above ground was destroyed, but from the rubble, new branches grew from the root that survived”

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The golden rose  ♥

[leeuphoria]

Favorite rose