Hmmm -- I've seen spray roses -- those little purple striped ones -- at Trader Joes in bundles, and I've never seen that small rose in any garden center, or I would have grabbed it. I'm thinking those are bought, not homegrown. If homegrown -- well then -- those are two striped roses that I don't have, and that's hard to do, cause I have most everything that's been released that was striped in the last ten or so years. The closest I have to the bigger one is our own sport of Berries N Cream that came out light like that. But your aunt would not have gotten that at a flea market.

I'm pretty sure you're right about that Maude. I'm already doing some in the pots too. It's all just an experiment to see what (if) I can get to root. I've always just done the method of sticking several stems in a 5gal pot and putting a 2litre bottle with the bottom cut off or a plastic bag over the pot. I didn't have a lot of luck that way. Right now I have the cuttings in clear plastic cups in a starter medium rather than soil. And I built a pvc pipe frame to go over a big plastic underbed storage container that I put clay pebbles in, adding water to create a moist environment and have heating pads underneath. Then I covered the pvc frame with clear vinyl and I have a fluorescent light fixture hanging over the whole thing, which comes on about 4:00pm and stays on til midnight. So far it seems to be a good set-up. But only time will tell. Like I said, I'm just having fun playing around and experimenting to see what, if anything, works.

Well, from Eufloria, maybe Ballet or Esperance (let the page load for a few seconds, then roll your cursor over the name of the rose to see the photo). I think Esperance might be it, try the photo here at Equiflor - Rio Roses (select "Esperance" from the pull-down menu). A few more searches find Marrakesh as a possibility.

With more observation, I agree with Kim and revise my recommendation in terms of the windowsill. If the air is still, plants/cuttings are more likely to get diseases like powdery mildew as well as spider mites, and the window where I rooted the Old Blush only had direct sunlight for an hour or two a day, with bright indirect light the rest of the day. It is also under the swamp cooler ducts and next to the washroom sink so there was some humidity and air circulation. In my orchid case, there are fans to circulate the air, and high humidity with timed misters so this may have helped with my success rate. I had a number of failures with Bolero this year, so my method is not infallible (I attribute it to a faulty timer on my lighting system, that left plants in the dark - unnoticed when I went to work). The Freedom rose that I rooted did great with the orchids, but horribly when placed with the outdoor roses, so if you are growing florist roses, beware that it might not be a good garden rose. Even with garden roses, they are very climate specific, so there may be even more variation with florist roses.