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Help with Rose cuttings in memoroy of my nan

Julia92Julia92 Posts: 5
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Hello all-

Sadly my nan passed away last week and in memory of her I’d like to have her favourite roses in my garden. 

Thay ate too big to dig up, so instead I’ve taken cuttings.

I have tried propagating roses before and had no luck. Obviously these cuttings are very sentiamal so can anyone give me the est advice please.

so far I’ve kept them in water for 3 days and feel I need to do something with them now. 

They have new shoots developing. Do I treat these as hard wood cuttings or as if I’m taking cuttings in spring?

thanks 

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I find the best way to propagate roses is to dig a trench in the garden and pop then in  right the way down,  just leave about 4/5” showing, pack the soil back around them. walk away and leave for a year. They may not all take but most of them will. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hi Julia. If you still have access to your Nan's garden you could cut all the stems on those roses back to about 8 inches in height making it easier for you to dig them out. Roses do transplant very easily (unless you try to put them into places where roses grew before). Although it seems to be quite ruthless cutting them back so hard, the roses will soon recover once moved. Add some mycorrhizal fungi to the soil you backfill with.
    I'm sorry if you don't have access any more and you could certainly try the cuttings in a pot to see if they root successfully. Good luck.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Hello Julia, l am sorry to hear about your nan. Do you know how old the rose bushes were, as Ladybird says, if you have permission to, you could cut them down and dig them out. I believe even old rose bushes can be removed successfully. @Marlorena may have some advice.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    I'm sorry about your sad news...  but it will nice if you can keep the roses going in memory...  I would normally do as Lyn advised above and those types of cuttings you've taken would usually be placed in soil, but I wish you luck with those, they may callous over at the base, you might even see little white roots form, but equally you should be made aware they could turn yellow and black and die off - which to be honest is the most likely outcome.. shooting out like they are is no indication they will root, and even if they do show roots, transplanting to pots is still no guarantee they will survive..

    Best of luck, .. you can only try.. think of it as a huge bonus if you are successful but be prepared for failure...  there is no hard and fast guarantee about these things I'm afraid...

    I would have dug the roses out and taken them with me... even old roses, it's not that difficult and you don't need to get the whole lot out...especially at this time of year..
    East Anglia, England
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