roses eh?

[bikermike]

Nice rose: carefully take 8 cuttings, put in deep pots and bags, keep, look after. 1 might survive. 1 more taken as a piece of pruning may do better.

other rose, 2 bits of pruning, 1 put in a 2" deep pot, and one shoved in the ground. Both have survived and are starting to flourish.

[Thelma Sanders]

Yup! You never can tell, cuttings from my Abraham Darby work + 75%, Gertrude Jekyll +90% but the other varieties I have are very hit and miss *sigh* The lovely William Shakespeare never seems to work, so given up trying that one

[nickdub]

The lovely William Shakespeare never seems to work, so given up trying that one

You could try layering it.

[DannyK]

I think you need to have them sitting on coarse sand or grit.

Not sure if rooting compound is good any more as the only one I could find was seaweed extract.

[Thelma Sanders]

You could try layering it.

It's got particularly sturdy, upright stems, I don't think any of the branches would bend over enough, but I'll keep my eye on it. That's the one downside in DA rose breeding, they all have climbing roses somewhere in their genes, so most grow very tall/upright rather than bushing out like old roses do

[nickdub]

It's got particularly sturdy, upright stems, I don't think any of the branches would bend over enough, but I'll keep my eye on it. That's the one downside in DA rose breeding, they all have climbing roses somewhere in their genes, so most grow very tall/upright rather than bushing out like old roses do

You could take the soil up to a branch by putting a pot of it on something high, and tie it to a rose stem - I've done that with clematis on occasion.