Knock Out Honey Bees

[blackcatofmisery]

My mom's garden has a vigorous knock out rosebush just beside it, and various bees adore it. Although I'm severely allergic to bites and stings, I will still follow honey and bumble bees; they're too busy to care about me.

_{Fun fact about me: I cannot smell typical roses. Knockouts are the only roses I can smell.}

Comments

[lizardjay]

Very pretty!

I don't know my flowers well at all; if you'd asked me I would have no idea those were roses. I've learned today! :D

[full_metal_ox]

The basic wild rose structure is five petals (1); if they resemble apple or cherry or crabapple or peach or pear or plum blossoms, it’s because all of the above are cladistically related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaceae

(1) The four-petaled Rosa sericea is an outlier.

[gingicat]

I learned this when someone pointed out the commonality between fruits I'm allergic to. *wry smile* (Turns out I am allergic to all rose fruits when raw, except for raspberries and other drupes. It started with strawberries.)

[full_metal_ox]

Well, damn. That’s a massive category of human food plants (and all you can stomach are the most costly, fragile, and transient!)

[gingicat]

Fortunately it's fine if they're cooked, and light poaching appears to be enough.

[blackcatofmisery]

Right?? They really don't look like rose-rose blossoms. I only know they're knock outs because I was told. I guess it's a brand? When I looked them up, there was a registered trademark ® beside the name.

=^..^=~