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Rose Seeds
Sandra Vardy
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Hi everyone
I have been given some rose seeds and I don't know how to grow them? My daughter bought them for me from the internet as the picture of the multi coloured rose looked beautiful (I didn't see the picture). My question is really, I have never seen or even heard of buying rose seeds so I don't know how or when to plant them. Could anyone help please?
Thank you
Sandra
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you can grow roses from seed but those multicoloured ones are an internet scam.
Sow the seeds in compost, nothing special, and see what you get, might even be roses
Last edited: 20 March 2017 16:04:31
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've only done this once, years ago, when I nicked a few hips off some rosa rugosa shrubs in a public car park one autumn. I sowed them sparsely in a small window box, covered the seeds with about 1/8" of compost and then left them outside for the winter. The next spring they germinated and grew into enough small plants to grow on and make a hedge.
This chilling process is known as stratification. You can cheat by mixing your seeds with some slightly damp compost and sealing them in a bag and keeping them in the fridge for a few weeks. Then take out and sow in trays as you would any other seed.
I sowed some Rosa rugosa in autumn, they germinated in 3 weeks and flowered at the end of the following summer, (not much but enough to show me what colour they were..
Roses aren't difficult, just the multicoloured bit.
I also go a forest of roses after I made rosehip wine, poured boiling water on the hips, left them a week, strained them off and threw them on the garden.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you for your reply. I will try and grow them .