Once the flower pedals fall off a seed pod will form. As the season progresses it will dry out and split open, dropping round seeds. The things in the foreground are seed pods. You can see one that’s opened in the back. We live in zone 6, which means the plant drops its leaves before the pods open, making them easy to find.
Our seedlings have proven to be pretty hardy and tolerant transplanting well. They flowered beginning in year three, but didn’t really start producing a lot of buds until year five.
TIL this is also called rose or Sharon lol 😂
Interesting re: seedlings. Mine seems to have had plenty of bees visiting, so hopefully will have some seeds in the autumn :3
Fewer petals sounds very sensible imo, less work for the bees 🐝
Once the flower pedals fall off a seed pod will form. As the season progresses it will dry out and split open, dropping round seeds. The things in the foreground are seed pods. You can see one that’s opened in the back. We live in zone 6, which means the plant drops its leaves before the pods open, making them easy to find.
Our seedlings have proven to be pretty hardy and tolerant transplanting well. They flowered beginning in year three, but didn’t really start producing a lot of buds until year five.