success with rooting roses
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: success with rooting roses
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 01:11:36 -0700
A little story for you all...
Just thought i'd tell you all about my latest plant success. Several weeks
ago i was wandering around my yard. In our neighbors yard, one of her rose
plants was growing through the fence. So, i took a cutting.
The rose in question i dont know the name of, but it seems to be a finer
stemmed rose than your average long stem type. It has magenta flowers, and
this one seems to be a double flowered type. The leaves are also smallish,
and it's not as thorny as some varieties are (i know, that narrows it down
a lot :)).
Anyway, i prepared it like a guide on the web said to, except i didn't
have any rooting hormone. So, i planted it in the yard and left it there.
I had forgotten about it, and thought it had died like hte other did. But,
lo and behold, i see a small plant with a few leaves. It had turned out
the plant had rooted (actually it was starting to root. At the very end it
had a whitish callous and some roots starting to grow. I carefully dug it
up and transplanted it to a pot. So, now I have a free rose bush. I would
like to try to turn this into a bonsai of sorts. I saw a chinese rose
bonsaied once, and it looked very beautiful. This type of rose looks like
it's a good candidate because the leaves are small, and the flowers arent
big. Also it's more twiggy than other roses are.
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