Roses...David Austin and others

binnylou, thanks for the info. I hadn't thought of bringing rose cuttings inside, but I like that idea. Maybe I'll put them someplace where I don't clean very often, as an incentive to do so!

Have they ever bloomed while inside under lights? Wouldn't that be a wonderful cheer-up during the cold days of Winter?

Multiple rose cuttings have been growing and waiting for better digs. The cuttings were taken last fall, growing in 16/20 oz soda bottles. Today was the day. I think I’m going to let them get settled in to their gallon pots, subjected to Mother Nature. When the weather turns chilly, they will spend the winter in the garden shed or the unheated garage. Since the rose cuttings and the dahlia tubers will be clamoring for the same garage space, I’d like to put the roses in to the garden shed. The garden shed would be the better choice, except for hungry mice. 🤬

When does a rose cutting become a rose Bush

I've never tied up canes, either. Roses should not be pruned in Fall/Winter in cold climes. Even dead heading spent blooms is not good to do as it promotes new growth and so interferes with the bush storing energy in its roots for the next season. I do a light prune around late August and leave it at that. And I stop deadheading around mid September I've never tied canes as all my roses are against the house and are somewhat protected. But the advantage is to prevent canes from snapping from the weight of snow /ice and from winter winds. I figure, if a cane snaps it's nature's way of pruning. And I clean those out when I do a spring pruning. But , actually, I rarely have a snapped cane.

All the rose cuttings taken fall of 2020, potted up and kept in cold garage over the winter have survived. Some were hauled outside yesterday…the remainder of them will be relocated to the potting bench today.

I really didn’t intend to leave them in the coldest part of the garage, but after they got moved inside, days turned in to weeks…weeks turned in to months, and now Spring is knocking on my door.

I hope my Dahlia tubers have survived on such neglect.

emmsmommy, watch your miniature roses carefully. I bought some and planted them on the S side of the house, either along with or after my David Austin roses all died. (I can't remember the timeframe specifically.) They didn't last long, perhaps a year or 2 years at best.

Eventually I realized that that spot wasn't appropriate for roses. And it's probably less appropriate now because of heavy traffic and the drift of any exhaust toward the area. A grapevine has also moved to that area and is trying to muscle out even the yews. The only plants that survived in that area besides a climbing rose growing well when I bought the house are some volunteer daylilies which last year numbered over 100 in an area perhaps just a bit less than 200 sq. ft, and some very hardy sedum. Oh, and a mullein volunteered to occupy the site as well.

binnylou, no, I don't want the grapevine, especially since it chose to plant itself there and escape the area in the actual garden. It's slated to come down, but today is a rainy day and I'd prefer to wait until I can take it down w/o holding onto an umbrella or wiping rain from my glasses!

I wish you luck stopping the grape vine encircling the tree. Mine spread like wildfire in the garden, and no matter how many I pulled out, they kept spreading.

Unfortunately, I've never gotten a harvest from the vines b/c the critters beat me to it. They were an excellent source for wreaths though, and at one time I sold a few and considered making that a side business. In the meantime, I have wreaths all through the house, most with dried herbs such as Oregano, thyme and a special one with Artemisia Sweet Annie, one of my favorites. It dried nicely and made a beautiful herbal wreath.

desertwoman, when I took cuttings, I used pieces that were 9 to 12 inches long. I used disposable water/soda bottles and I did use hormone powder on them. Cuttings were taken in the fall and were overwintered in the laundry room. One of them bloomed. If you use the hormone powder, be sure to pre drill a hole in the soil so that you don’t remove the powder when inserting the cutting. Cuttings were up potted to gallon containers prior to last fall and are currently sitting on the potting bench, waiting for resident gardener to make a decision about what is to become of them.

I think there’s easier ways to do this. Some people just stick them in the ground. If you use clear plastic containers, you can monitor the root growth.

My question is…when does a cutting become a rose bush?