Grafted roses

[Lauries]

I planted some lovely pink 'Pretty Polly Patio' roses in my garden today, however, they were £10 each and its a big garden!

Are all roses, even miniature patio ones grafted?

Just wondering whether it might be worth trying to root some cuttings and create some free plants and if I did so would my new roses be mini like its parent or would they grow monstrously tall?

[kentvegplot]

Pretty much all are budded onto a rootstock, I believe (although there may be a real expert along soon to disagree!). Having said that, I've taken hardwood cuttings of roses and grown them on their own roots, and they've been fine.

I suggest experimenting.......

[starloc]

Most roses if not all roses grow fine on there own roots, they tend to grow larger and faster with more flowers on there own roots but you need to be more carefull about things like how wet and how much nutrition the soil has etc

a lot of miniature patio roses can be grown from seed, most of the very small roses you buy are not grafted, just rooted cuttings or seed grown

I root them in a clear plastic bag for the pot, covered with a plastic 2l lemonade bottle for humidity, always using a strong rooting powder such as doff , not the weaker type in the green and yellow tub with the pointy top, you can see the roots fill the bag when the bags full its time to repot it

[Two_Sheds]

Cut off a 12" or so stem in autumn, cut off all but the top few leaves, shove into soil: hey presto, new rose plants