Maybe you should start out with Wisconsin Roses as a learning experience -- sort of a halfway point to grafting your own.
http://www.wiroses.com/index.p...
Steve will send you a rose budded onto multiflora rootstock. When the canes of the rootstock start to grow leaves, you cut off everything above the bud-eye. The rose then grows into a great big, beautiful rose bush.
http://www.wiroses.com/instruc...
He has a small but exciting assortment, and the prices are very low by today's standards. Be sure to check out the sale list of roses in small numbers. The most exciting ones are always on that list. I see it now includes Hot Romance, Oksana, Red Intuition, and Silverado -- all four are splendidly gorgeous.
http://www.wiroses.com/catalog...
