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I'm not sure if this is where I post a question?
I have 2 beach rose plants in my yard. Is it possible to take cuttings from the original bushes to make more plants? Kristin Holland |
| 7/8/06 Kristin, Beach roses can relatively easily be started from cuttings given the right conditions. Take a cutting that is six to eight inches long from underneath a flower that has recently bloomed. This gives you a young cane. Strip all but a few of the top leaves and place it in a potting mix. You can cut vertically through the bottom of the cane to the interior or cambiam (wound the cane) to aid root development. I would make as many as ten of these since not all will root. Water well and keep watered. Now here are some problems. We have done this mostly in a cold frame greenhouse where moisture can be ensured even around the leaves. The weather is hot now, so this may be hard on the cutting and if it does not work, I encourage you to try again next year when cooler. You might take some of your cuttings and put a soda bottle over them to make a kind of greenhouse where moisture is ensured. Do not allow these to be in the sun or it will cook the cutting. Beach roses (Rosa Rugosa) also sucker easily where a new plant grows from the root and snakes underground to start a new plant. For an established sucker, you might be able to cut off the connection between a sucker and the mother plant with a shovel and get a separate plant that you can dig up and transplant later. I am pasting a link to articles from the American Rose Society that contains more and probably better information than I have give you. http://www.ars.org/About_Roses/propagation.htm You will see that timing is important in this process. Best of Luck with this and have fun. We have done a number of cuttings in our garden and enjoy the new plants.
Jerry Cinnamon |
