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RE: Wednesday Walk in the Boreal Forest of Saskatchewan...
Ahhhhh, what a lovely post to start my day! I love frogs and so the frog photo was the favorite. My frogs appeared in the last few days.
Our wild roses are the invasive multifloras. I wish they were ones like yours...
I have never heard of the invasive multiflora and never thought of roses as invasive. Were they a native species or an introduced species?
I don't know so I looked it up. From https://www.ecolandscaping.org/07/invasive-plants/multiflora-rose-an-exotic-invasive-plant-fact-sheet/
"Multiflora rose is an exotic invasive perennial shrub native to China, Japan, and Korea... The importation, distribution, trade, and sale of multiflora rose have been banned in Massachusetts effective January 1, 2009....Introduced into the United States in the 1860s (Dryer, 1996), multiflora rose was used in the horticultural industry as readily available rose root stock for rose breeding programs and as an ornamental garden plant....By the 1930s it was widely planted in the Midwest and northeastern states at the encouragement of the USDA, Soil Conservation Service for erosion control programs, wildlife habitat enhancement programs, and as a natural barrier to roaming farm animals (i.e. “living fence”)...
It grows pretty quickly and certainly would make a living fence. But it would require a lot of time to maintain it. We have to cut it off our electric fences at least twice a year.