Something happened today that reminded me of the reason I'm really frustrated with so many of the own-root hybrid teas I bought through the years from Vintage Gardens. They started out as one-cane plants, of course, and most of them remained one-cane plants forever. One of them recently put out a new basal cane, but today I saw that the original cane is dying. That's so common in those roses! They have occasionally produced new basal shoots, but as soon as the new shoot starts growing in earnest, the original cane dies and has to be removed, as if they were trained to never be anything more than one-cane wonders.
