The Confederate and the Rose LbNA #57964 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | dancingpecan  |
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| Plant date: | May 24, 2011 |
| Location: | Covington Public Library |
| City: | Covington Public Library, Covington |
| County: | St. Tammany |
| State: | Louisiana |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Farm Eagle |
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| Last found: | Feb 25, 2012 |
| Status: | FFar |
| Last edited: | May 24, 2011 |
Confederate roses tend to be shrubby or treelike in Zones 9 and 10, though it behaves more like a perennial further north. Flowers can be double or single and are 4 to 6 inches in diameter; they open white or pink, and change to deep red by evening. Bloom season usually lasts from summer through fall.
The common name Confederate rose has a variety of possible origins. One story relates that the Confederate rose was in bloom during a particularly bloody battle of the Civil War. A slain soldier fell beside a Confederate rose, and his blood spilled into the ground at the base of shrub. The flowers, which had started out white in the morning, absorbed the slain soldier's blood throughout the day, so that by evening they had turned a deep, rosy red.
Behind the Covington branch of the St Tammany Library is a gazebo. Stand at the steps facing into the gazebo. Starting with the first upright post on your left, count 3 posts. On the outside of the gazebo, at the 3rd post, is a slender tree. This is the Rose. At her feet lies the Confederate, hidden from view in a camo pouch, under some bark, in a hole at the base of the tree.
Please be very stealthy. The library has windows that look out towards the gazebo and there is a small school across from the gazebo as well. As always, please rehide as well or better than you found it.
The common name Confederate rose has a variety of possible origins. One story relates that the Confederate rose was in bloom during a particularly bloody battle of the Civil War. A slain soldier fell beside a Confederate rose, and his blood spilled into the ground at the base of shrub. The flowers, which had started out white in the morning, absorbed the slain soldier's blood throughout the day, so that by evening they had turned a deep, rosy red.
Behind the Covington branch of the St Tammany Library is a gazebo. Stand at the steps facing into the gazebo. Starting with the first upright post on your left, count 3 posts. On the outside of the gazebo, at the 3rd post, is a slender tree. This is the Rose. At her feet lies the Confederate, hidden from view in a camo pouch, under some bark, in a hole at the base of the tree.
Please be very stealthy. The library has windows that look out towards the gazebo and there is a small school across from the gazebo as well. As always, please rehide as well or better than you found it.