Signs of life!
Well I'm so pleased with myself
I took a couple of rose cuttings during the summer just for practice really to see if they would take (I have done this successfully before).
Well up until a few days ago I thought they were dead as they had gone brown on the top. I went to throw them in the bin earlier today and found this shoot coming from one of them! I'm always amazed when these things just start to grow and seems strange that in a few years time this should be quite a good size shrub!


Well up until a few days ago I thought they were dead as they had gone brown on the top. I went to throw them in the bin earlier today and found this shoot coming from one of them! I'm always amazed when these things just start to grow and seems strange that in a few years time this should be quite a good size shrub!

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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I took rose cuttings earlier this year too but between storm Miguel and then the seering heatwave and drought they got blown out and dried out. Going to try again in a week or two and this time in the ground, not pots.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Hopefully you will have better luck with yours later in the year
I did everything the same aswell.
Needless to say, many failed but Queen of Sweden gave me 3 babies and I think I have Teasing Georgia and one other. Needless to say also that the indelible pen I used on the pots wasn't so I'm guessing at TG and waiting for the third and waiting for it to flower and reveal itself.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
So it’s great to read everybody’s success stories.