Rose cutting
Hello everyone,
Last Autumn I took some cuttings from one of my rose bushes, a lovely mauve one but whose name I don’t know as the label has long since been lost. The mother plant grows quite high, so I keep it pruned to a manageable height.
My question is this - one of the cuttings survived and is thriving really well in its pot, giving out new growth, and I’m wondering when I should plant it in the ground. (I’ve never taken cuttings before). Would I be better leaving it in the pot a little longer, one more season for example, to establish even further or plant out now? It’s about 12” tall with more than a dozen leaves. I’m new to this taking rose cuttings business!
Thank you in anticipation.
Last Autumn I took some cuttings from one of my rose bushes, a lovely mauve one but whose name I don’t know as the label has long since been lost. The mother plant grows quite high, so I keep it pruned to a manageable height.
My question is this - one of the cuttings survived and is thriving really well in its pot, giving out new growth, and I’m wondering when I should plant it in the ground. (I’ve never taken cuttings before). Would I be better leaving it in the pot a little longer, one more season for example, to establish even further or plant out now? It’s about 12” tall with more than a dozen leaves. I’m new to this taking rose cuttings business!
Thank you in anticipation.
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It's what I do with my own rose cuttings but also with newly bought bare root and potted roses as I find it helps them when they finally have to face life in the borders with everything else competing for light, space, nutrients and water.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw