Today (Saturday 3/24/2018), I monitored our group's five Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) shrubs at the Radford Bike Path site in Radford, Virginia. Throughout the week, we have seen partly cloudy skies with a few days of snow accumulation up to 3 inches. Today it was overcast with a steady fall of snow expected to reach 8 inches. The high temperature today is 40° F and low is 30° F with snow expected to fall all day. It appears that some plants have begun to have higher numbers of breaking leaf buds again while others had very few if any. While more leaves have emerged on all the bushes, the majority of them were still small and increasing in size. In most of the shrubs, the leaves are approximately 50%-74% of the size they will be when fully grown. Plants are beginning to cover 50%-74% of the total potential canopy space. Two of our shrubs continue to bear fruit. (Post by M. Howard)
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