I'll be the first to admit that I know next to nothing about roses, except that they're pretty, they smell good and I like them. So perhaps for those who are knowledgeable, it's inherent in the type of rose as to whether or not any given rose has few to no thorns, is relatively prickly, or is so laden with thorns as to require chain mail to approach (why, yes, I did make the mistake of planting a Polareis in a spot that requires a bit of grooming. Which does not happen for reasons obvious to anyone familiar with that rose.
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Would it be redundant to add a field to the roses database to indicate that a particular rose is "heavily thorned," as opposed to just "thorned" or "thornless or almost thornless?"
