Thanks, Mary Kay. Right now my gardens look pretty unloved. We just came out of a week of record low temps and I had too much else on my plate to do any gardening at all! Such a lost opportunity! Now I'll be trying to catch up in the heat.
The grasshoppers are so bad this year that they not only stripped the roses, but one large evergreen holly is down to stems only. My bees had better produce a lot of honey this year! Because of them, I stay organic, and the grasshoppers feast.
If you do cuttings, I would suggest taking a lot of cuttings to better your odds.
I even bought a cloning machine, kinda like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003E77BF8/
and I still can't get some roses to take root.
