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[Content] On May 22, 2012, nonconformist7 from Aurora, CO (Zone 5b) wrote: First of all, I would like to say that this plant in NOT invasive in Colorado and does not appear in the list of invasive noxious weeds for our state. That being said, it grows in a bush-type form, but then the branches bend to the ground giving it the appearance of a weeping rose. If they actually touch the ground they will try to take root. On my plant, in my area (Zone 5b) after having accomplished taking root that entire branch dies back completely. It is very thorny, and each year requires a lot of removal of dead branches (nearly half of the branches that were alive the year before). The flowers are very generous and smell great, but are not very sturdy and are soon blown or knocked off. It does not seem to produce any hips at all, and it does not spread at all from ... read morewhere it is growing and has remained in the same location (neatly contained in one little clump, with around four branches several feet along the fence in both directions and the rest drooping toward the ground) for many many years. I even had the idea that it would climb a trellis, and I constructed one just for this purpose, but what portions I had started climbing one year died back the next, and it never attempted to climb the second year on its own although it grew through the bottom holes of the trellis (just never up). [Rating] 
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