Have your roses gone dormant yet? If not, wait until they go fully dormant. Once they've lost their leaves, it's easy to dig a good piece, bare root it, prune it back to a reasonable size that will fit (even carefully bent) into a flat rate postal box (they come in three sizes, I think). Wrap the roots in moist paper towels, then plastic wrap. You can even wait until late winter/early Spring to do it, but the weather will probably warm up for your friend before it does for you, and the timing might be inconvenient (you have a foot of snow when they have daffodils, for instance, lol).

As long as the rose is dormant, and your friend can plant it asap, there shouldn't be a bit of problem. Roses, and gallicas especially, are tough.

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Thank you fig-insanity and roseseek.

I don’t believe that the roses have gone dormant yet.

We have had some 65 and 70° weather, but nothing too harsh although this week will see colder evenings.

If it were a matter of moving it from one location to another in my yard I would use it with ease. In fact I planted the gallica about 20 years ago in November I believe, it wasn’t dormant, just sitting in a part of the nursery and on sale. I’m used to pretty much shoveling things up and popping them into other spaces, but that’s just locally in my garden or to somebody else’s, not shipping them.

I’ve decided to perhaps wait until spring and then try your techniques and I’m sure that will be more likely to take & give successful outcome.

The two roses I was going to ship this fall are a really wonderful banshee rose that I got from a college in Worcester Massachusetts. It is the best banshee because it’s very fragrant, disease free, doesn’t ball at all and has a wonderful color. I don’t have to do anything to it. It also isn’t very tall, so it makes a pretty and fragrant bush in June. I call it “WPI banshee.”

The other one is a gallica, ‘Boule de Nanteuil.’ I have a lot of this and it spreads but in an OK way – – it isn’t difficult to yank out what I don’t want.

I’m happy to share with anybody who would like some, but probably should start removing extra canes this week. I will try to find some photos and post them but I think most of you know what that rose looks like and it’s form.

I also have other extra, giveaway roses, Rosa virginia and Rosa rugosa (pink). The R. virginiana blooms in June and its foliage turns mahogany color in October with deep orange hips.

Thanks again for your generous help.

Here is a photo of the ”WPI Banshee”

I can breath this fragrance in until I develope asthma, or get the world’s worst migraine (<— did that latter from inhaling a luscious ’Don Juan’ for too long).

i went to the WPI (Worcerter Polytechnical Institute) area to pick up a vintage sewing machine. on the way back to the car, I spotted a rose bush in bloom and saw the distinctive banshee leaves. I got my ”horticulural opportunist” clippers from the car and harvested a few blooms. (No one answered my calls, the rose was in a weedy area.) I enjoyed my bouquet and the clipping grew roots. I plopped the cuttings into a garden area and they took off.

Any chance you could provide photos of the leaves and/or canes of your ”banshee” rose, please? This flower does not match any of the clones of ”banshee” I’m familiar with.

Petalique I sent you a message. Do you happen to know what pink Rugosa you have?