How to take a rose cutting

[WinterNightStars]

Hi all. We have a well established rose by our front door & I’d love to take a cutting to grow elsewhere in garden. What’s the best & most successful way to do this please? I’m not a natural gardener so the easier the better! I’ve recently taken a 2 cuttings from a hydrangea & both are doing well. Thanks 🙂

My dad swears by rooting balls. I order them for him on Amazon but B&Q etc. sell. I think you scrape off the bark type cover near some nodes, pop on a soil filled rooting ball and it just grows roots and takes. He’s done it to several of my plants that he liked. It good as it’s easy- the plant nourishes rhe new roots etc. as it grows.

You need a 10cm cutting of the stem, including a node, then dip the end in rooting powder and put in a seeding tray or small pot.

We took cuttings of about 16 of the roses from a loved ones funeral flowers, and 2 have grown. Not flowered yet but hopefully by next year they'll be ready.

I said on another thread:

I've done them into a fairly poor nutrition earth/used compost/leaf mould/grit (good drainage is important) mix and have placed the cuttings four to a pot round the sides. Cut straight across below a node at the bottom and diagonally at the top, above a node.

They took a while but did work and once they were growing fairly strongly leafwise I transplanted them into their own pots. You can do it straight into the ground too but I haven't tried that.

That method has worked really well but I'll always take quite a few if I can to allow for failures.

Remember, if it's a DA rose, it's err illegal 😏

What’s a DA rose?? I really am pretty clueless lol. The rose was there when we moved in so I’ve no idea what it is! 😂

DA = David Austin.
They make their living by inventing new hybrids and selling them, so they protect new varieties with a patent. You are not allowed to make money by selling their (or any other such company's) hybrids but nobody is going to sue an amateur for the odd bit of propagation for their own garden.

Lurk