Today (Thursday 3/30/2018), I monitored our group's five Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) shrubs at the Radford Bike Path site in Radford, Virginia. The weather has been varied this week from snowing 8 inches to being sunny and warm. Today it was partly cloudy with temperatures in the mid 70’s. Due to the heavy snowfall earlier in the week, some of our shrub bushes have damaged by fallen branches. The snow also appeared to knock down the remaining fruit on one of the multiflora rose shrubs. Most of the plants are almost finished with the breaking leaf bud stage, with some still having 3-10 breaking leaf buds on the plant. It appears that the plants have reached about 50-74% of leaf size and we expect to see them at full size in the next few weeks. Plants continue to cover about 50%-74% of the total potential canopy space. (Post by M. Howard)
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