Propagating Roses Update

About four weeks ago I had blogged about my new hobby, planting roses and “propagating roses”, out of the three that made it only one is really doing well. You can see the picture on the left was taken July 6, approximately 8 inches high with no new growth yet.

Today, the same rose that I had propagated has a new growth and it grew to about 1.5 foot high and has a flower bud.

Too bad for the other two, but this is still exciting!

Propagating Roses

Back in May I started what might be a new hobby, “roses”. Planting roses that is! So far so good, and some of them are even blooming already.

To make it a little bit more challenging I also started propagating roses. You can click here to see what propagating is all about. I propagated 6 stem of roses which we got from the rose show at the botanical garden. Three stems didn’t make it and the other three, nine weeks later have some roots. Yippee . . .  I’m so excited about this!

When you grow roses from cuttings, they are identical to the original plant. So, imagine the possibilities, if I see a beautiful rose around your garden I might cut a stem and start propagating your rose.

 Images taken using the new iPhone 3G S