Mini Ground Roses
19Saturday 10 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Three years ago we bought a few rose plants, not many, just 20 or so to get us started. Since then we’ve propagated a some 400 hundred new plants from the original batch, just by taking cuttings and shoving them into the soil – so not bad value in the end.
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A couple of them were these miniature ground roses.
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These ground roses are easily the best to take cuttings from, with literally 9 out of 10 taking root 🙂 This year alone I planted out 40 of these and there are another 60+ cuttings brewing nicely for planting out next winter.
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I can barely keep my roses alive so to say that I am so impressed with your rose skills is an understatement. 🙂 Your garden must be utterly utterly beautiful. I want to walk in your garden, in fact. 🙂
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Wow, thank you very much…!!
Roses love water and more than that, they love rich soil with lots of fertiliser, such as horse poo, goat, cow, chicken; all sorts in fact. I’m no expert at all…. But check out another blog for roses… http://herladypinkrose.wordpress.com/
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Mini doesn’t mean less beautiful, right? Lovely roses. I love white roses very much.
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They are quite hardy too, and seem to handle the heat much better than their grown-up cousins.
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Roses are so romantic! Even mini roses.
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Especially for those only ‘slightly’ romantic then 🙂
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Lol!
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Your white rose picture is specially gorgeous. We have rain here (again ) and more to come so nice and cheery to see your lovely rose garden! I can’t believe they will all be frizzled when your sun has got going.
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Rain here too – last lump before October probably. Summer hits 115F, so yes, anything with a high water content ‘cooks’ 🙂
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You can simply cut off branches, stick them in the ground and new plants will grow?!
Please tell me it’s a bit more complicated than that and I’m not a total dunce when it comes to gardening.
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Exactly that Joanne. In winter, which here means mean daytime temps of +10 to +16 and nights of -2 to +6, I snip away to cut the rose bushes down to almost nothing, then cut up the offcuts and literally shove them into a patch of soil. Over 90% grow, and within a few months they have basic roots, but I don’t transplant until the following winter so they are stronger and able to handle chickens scratching and dustbathing around them.
https://unclespikes.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/roses-beds/
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Are those temperatures in Celsius? If they are, you are describing our current May temperatures. I like your version of winter better than ours.
Maybe I’ll have to give roses another chance. The previous owners of our home had beautiful rose bushes lining the entire fence. Within 2 years I had killed all of them. Apparently they don’t like neglect.
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Celius, yep.
Roses love good quality soil with lots of manure, compost, etc. Clip then early winter down to 20cm high and that’s a fair start…
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I’ve already picked the spot for my spring planting 🙂
Thanks for the advice!
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I simply cannot believe that I’m “liking” pretty flower pics Spike. You’ve emasculated me sir. That’s what you’ve done! Emasculated me! 😉
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…and I can’t believe I’m posting them either. Crap, me thinks I’ve started to grow up.
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Keep this under your hate Spike but your flower pic brightened up a very overcast and drizzly London morning. I’m not gay you know! 😉
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lol
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pretty, and the whorls are so hypnotic 🙂
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