On a little-used longish road with fields either side, I came upon this rose bush today. It was on its own, growing through an old, bare hedge. It was snowing slightly and the temperature here hasn’t risen above 3 degrees C for well over a week. I was proper surprised...even thought I’d been tricked and checked to see if they were real, or if someone had thrown a bouquet at the hedge, but no, it was definitely real.
This touch of colour in the cold is surprizing indeed, especially as there are several of these roses and you found them growing in the wild, not behind protected garden walls.
