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Roses
Roses
Roses can be so resilient, when you next prune your favourite rose take a few cuttings and just make a cut in the end then stick it into the soil about six inches and with luck you will have more of your favourite rose bushes, I did this last autumn using three different methods, and just putting it into the soil was the only one that worked but I now have another bush of my favourite rose.
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Message from elkebrit
Posted on 29th June 2009
I will definitely try this when I prune in the autumn. Good old economical gran, she probably didn't even realize that she had a gift. Regretfully I never had any grandparents to pass on such info to me - they all died young.
Message from Beebee
Posted on 09th April 2009
Aw Maggi, your Gran sounds lovely. I will certainly try this with my rose prunings.
Last year I took the saw to my Mahonia as it was annoyingly large and I stuck a couple of sawn pieces into the ground, thinking they would do for plant supports and to my delight, one is sprouting and looks extremely healthy.
What a bonus.
Message from Temporatelily
Posted on 07th April 2009
LOL!! Your gram had a way with plants--so did mine. But mine didn't grow any roses--neither did my mother. But I do and have an expanding collection. Not just making more of one kind but buying/cutting whatever I can get.
You forgot to mention what the favourite rose was....
Message from maggi
Posted on 05th April 2009
My Gran planted a whole rose garden (6 or 8 beds as far as I remember) from my rose prunings. Mind you, anything grew for her - I'm sure if she had stuck a yard brush in the ground it would have sprouted! She thought I was terribly extravagant because I bought plants. 
I don't think she ever bought a plant in her life. All her plants were from cuttings or divisions. She mostly asked if she could take a cutting but had been known to sneak the odd one overhanging a wall 
or some such.
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