oh dear oh dear....
First, I don't know much of anything about growing roses, I just do it and hope for the best! Now I'll add more information to my hoping lurking here!
I did not know I could start roses so easily! Zuzu, I never once saw a rose start from cuttings I left on the ground in Hoopa, and I was/am a not so neat of a gardener to not leave any hanging around ....wow.... There were at least 3 dozen roses on that place when I got there, some 20 feet tall with trunks as big as my arm...and I could have started some so easily? drat drat drat
Now my only rose is an Angel Face here, one of my favorites because she's purple and she's sooooooo fragrant that I get waves of perfume from several yards away. I got her at Lowe's last spring in a gallon pot. She's in a big planter pot now and has grown about 3', giving me 6-8 blooms at a time. I feed her with sprays of fish/kelp and occasional epsom salts and worm castings, and protect her with neem oil and DE. She seems to want to be a climber. It seems I read somewhere that all roses could turn into climbers. Is that true?
The Veilchenbleu is INCREDIBLE! Do you suppose it would do well here? Melva, please, please may I have some? Is now a good time to take cuttings here? I need to go read and look a photos to see what a good cutting looks like. I have some rootone but it's years old - I had no idea it would expire, but then, I never thought of it.
I remember my great-grandmother starting roses under muddy jars in the garden. Why did she do that?
