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Re: Suckers

>What kind of rose bush are the teas usually grafted onto?  Anything worth
>keeping?

For the most part, no. Rose producers use several species and varieties, 
among them Rosa multiflora, 'Dr. Huey', 'Manetti', and in Florida and the 
Deep South, 'Fortuniana'.

The problem with allowing suckers to develop is that understocks are 
nearly always more vigorous than the named varieties budded to them. 
Understocks are chosen for their vigor--because vigorous root growth 
drives top growth in the budded variety.

So if you don't remove the suckers, they can relatively quickly overwhelm 
the rose on top.

Mary
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