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| In cleaning up my garden this year I uncovered a volunteer rose. I've never heard of such a thing. It is about 3 ft away from a climbing rose I've had about 7 yrs & in a spot close to where I tried to grow a rose tree about 5 yrs ago but had to pull it up, roots & all, after the first yr, so I don't know if it could be from one of those.
Anyway, it is not in a good spot, overwhelmed with other plants around it, so I'm thinking of moving it. Is this safe for it? It is about the size of a gallon of milk. |
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| Most likely rootstock. Rootstock most likely 'Dr. Huey', a once-blooming (spring) semi-double red climbing rose. Easily moved. Some people like this rose, others do not. Your choice. |
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| Move it now and see if you like it. Like hoov said some people love it others hate it. It will get very large because it is a climber and a very vigorous grower. That's why it was used as root stock in the first place. It also has a tendency to send out runners and spread. So where ever you decided to put it give it lots of room. If in the end you don't like it you can always yank it out. It may take a couple tries to get it all but eventually it will go away. |
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| Or it could be a seedling. After next spring, you'll know if it's Dr. Huey. You would know sooner if it were Rosa multiflora. Do the leaves look like your Hybrid Teas? If so, it's not multiflora. But if the leaflets are smaller, and if it blooms with small white fragrant blooms that each last a single day, then it's multiflora and we'll need to help you decide. Or it could be something totally new. |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Tue, Apr 17, 12 at 13:04
| It also could be another type of rootstock - I have had both rosa eglanteria and that "IXL? " thornless rootstock come up after removing roses. That one is used for rose trees (actually for the stem) a lot. If it is that one, the flowers are gorgeous - it is an offspring of Veilchenblau, and has those lovely violet colored blooms. Anyway, you can easily dig it up and put it into a 2 gallon pot somewhere in the sun, and as everyone says, post pictures of the flowers next Spring, and find out what it is. I love doing that- it is so fun to solve the mysteries. Jackie |
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| IS anyone still using IXL? I agree, Jackie. I think it's striking. Jeri |
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| Thanks, everybody. I think I'll move it & see what happens. I don't think it will make it where it is, so what do I have to lose? I really hope it is from that tree rose. I loved the color of the roses on that but it just didn't last for me. |
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| Patty, There is nill chance that the roots of a (US produced) tree rose will produce the blooms of the uppermost aka grafted part of a tree rose. A tree rose represents either two or three different roses. Two years ago there were tree roses with grafts at two or more elevations. Today at a nursery I saw a tree rose with was (according to the photo on the bush) budded with two different roses' buds: one deep purple and the other white. Those are things that happen up on the trunk of the rose. That trunk may be a single rose, or it may be the result of rootstock having a strong conducting stem grafted on top of it- and that stem would then have the desired bloom buds grafted on the top of it. Were a rose to emerge from the roots, its blooms WOULD look like the rootstock. |
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