When is it ok to take cuttings from roses you don't own?
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Comments (18)You know, I was on their website seeing what was available, and then I plugged the address into google maps...they are only 2 hours 44 minutes from me. So I think a trip is in order. They even have Moondance, which I need to complete a trio and I don't want to order from J&P. Now all I have to do is talk DH into it. Hopefully there is some sort of BBQ festival going on there soon. That'll do it....See MoreWhen to take Rose cuttings?
Comments (8)Okay, this is a wild chance, but a lady who lives near me has the most beautiful older rose bush, seems very healthy and disease free, a lovely soft pink, and she is more than willing to give me a cutting.. however, I have never, ever, had luck getting a rose cutting to take for me. Please anyone, advise me the best time and the best method... can I really just try to stick one in the ground? I tried several cuttings some years ago and not one took... did jars with covers, rooting compound, etc... maybe just sticking it in the ground may actually work... this rose is on its own roots too, it just sprang up on its own from a parent plant about 4 feet away... she doesn't know its name but its lovely. The parent bush is at least 40 years old she says. I'm in Nova Scotia near Yarmouth, currently getting some advice from rose forum people on better Austin or English types which will withstand the damp air here......See Moredon't you love when being lazy or too busy pays off??!
Comments (6)Good for you!! Volunteers/freebies are always welcome......at least if they are actual flowers and not the kind of weeds that spread like wildfire if you look the other way for a day or two. :) I always purposely leave the seed heads on a lot of my plants. I try to deadhead the ones that are extremely prolific, but don't always get to them either. I do it over the summer, but try to leave them in the fall so that the birds can eat them over the winter. That is why people are always asking why I have so many plants to give away.......especially 'rose of sharon'. I must have given away a hundred of them or more over the last couple of years. Thats not counting the ones that I didn't let get too big. Once they reach about four or five inches, I can't throw them away, so I let them grow a bit bigger and give them away. I figure the greenhouse that is a few blocks from me has been wondering why their sales of 'r of s' has gone down! LOL! I guess your clue as to the fact that it was a flower should have been that it wasn't growing out of control, but behaving and not growing too much. Your patience (forced or otherwise) really paid off!...See MoreIf you don't have enough of your own to put up...
Comments (5)I know gardeners and farmers are the best "pay it forwarders" ! I give away what I cannot use, and my neighbor lets me pick if they have enough and I do not. The farmer who rents from me, I watch his little boy while he is in the fields, and he cuts wood for me. The farmers Dad and Mom, I take them jam and jelly, they reward me with bread and other produce. When I was entering at the fair this year the one worker in the Horticulture building was saying she is getting to disabled to take care of the Dahlias she has, and tonight I am going to pick them up. ( The previous owner gave them to her when she couldn't take care of them anymore) So, I am taking her my jam and jelly. My boss even lets me have paid time off to go pick berries in the summer and I give his wife lbs of berries....See Morenorthtexasdude
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