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Re: Roses

Dear Diana,

I enjoy very much your posts and dream with your top quality nursery. You
SHOULD do certain roses. I'm a rose nut but I'm very selective: I enjoy
particularly well foliaged shrub roses, mostly old kinds, fragrant and, if
possible,  disease resistant. I also enjoy ramblers with that miriad of
flowers all over... Right now 'BOBBY JAMES', a curtain of white flowers
hides a pretty ugly dead oak... Beautiful!!!
Here the BEST moment for rooting cuttings is RIGHT NOW. As soon as the new
growth after the first flowering turns a bit hard, you pick the cuttings.
They will root in no time for you with your professional equipment if they
root so easily for me. Note old varieties are usually easier to grow into
nice plants than newer, more ellaborated varieties: as I prefer the oldies,
just imagine my happiness!!! :-)
You can also root hardwood cuttings in winter time with hardly any equipment
at all.
I think my humid and oceanic climate is not much different to yours. I grow
quite a nice collection and couldn't imagine my garden without roses in
summer. Please consider producing some top quality varieties for next
year!!!  :-)

Jose
Basque Country, Northern Coastal Spain, 43º19N
Very hilly, very green, very beautiful!!! :-)
Zone 9. Humid oceanic climate.
EMail: almand@arrakis.es



-----Original Message-----
From: Diana L. Politika <diana@olympus.net>
To: woodyplants@mallorn.com <woodyplants@mallorn.com>
Date: sábado 13 de junio de 1998 15:49
Subject: Re: Roses


>Oh, good...someone opened the door on a subject that I've been balking
>about.
>
>I have a customer whose husband died this past year.  She lived 2 blocks
>from me.  She sold their home and bought a home across the street from
>the Greenhouse.  She has asked me to take some cuttings of two roses
>that her husband dearly loved, and to do so before the house sells.
>It's President Lincoln and another fairly common one.
>I don't do roses, I don't sell roses.  I have this fear that if I carry
>one, the public might mistake us for someone who knows something about
>them.
>I have the equipment for propgation, and I understand that stem cuttings
>are easy.
>But....when do you take the stem cuttings?
>--
>The Greenhouse Nursery
>81 S. Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
>Port Angeles, WA  98362
>(360) 417-2664
>Zone 8
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