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Here in the fair city of Lawrence, KS, I would say that Dr. Huey is the second most common rose to be found, and second only because of the large numbers of Knockout roses planted around various parking lots. And yet, of course, no one ever actually bought a rose labeled Dr. Huey. Why people persist in selling roses grafted onto this monster is beyond me. This is why I am such a fanatic about own-root roses.
You have to follow the canes down and dig down to where they originate at the roots. Do not just cut them off. That only seems to encourage the Doctor to grow more. You want to rip off the canes at the roots so that you cause some cell damage and the canes will not grow back...at that point anyway.
Doctor Huey was chosen as a root stock for precisely this reason. It's VERY VIGOROUS! With it's strong desire to grow it pushes other varieties that are grafted to it to grow that much faster. Rose producers can get bigger plants to market faster and make more money. The less time and money a grower has to spend raising plants for sale the more they can make on them. Simple as that.
Up here in the North Country we don't have as much problem with DH showing up. I only have him come up when I've neglected to take out an already dead grafted rose. Even then it's pretty rare because it's usually because the whole thing, roots and all, froze to death over winter.
I have a few David Austin roses; someone recommended Queen of Sweden and I agree its Blackspot resistant. I have in my yard growing Tamora, a small apricot colored rose; Molineux, a lovely medium height golden yellow rose (my favorite) and Alnwick Castle, now renamed The Alnwick Rose, a medium pink rose with medium height. and finally Pat Austin a medium height orange/coppery colored rose. Most of the DA roses in the US are not BS resistant so buyer beware.
If I had to add roses again to my garden I would chose Kordes roses because many are BS resistant.
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I noticed today while driving that everyones forsythia are in bloom here...But a lot of roses around just have the small swollen leaf buds so far... Ours are a bit more advanced than what I seen today...
Most people around here buy a rose stick it in the ground and forget about it... I seen so much dead wood last year sticking out of peoples roses I wanted to run into their yard and prune the poor things...lol
It happens occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's a normal characteristic. I have an own root rose I got from Heirloom about 12-15yrs ago called WONDERSTRIPE. It has at least 4 separate plants all in a big cluster. I really should remove some of them. I also have an own root STOKES I got from Roses Unlimited over 20yrs ago, and it shot up a second plant almost a foot away. Good thing tho, because the original plant died.
As George Carlin (aka "The Hippy Dippy Weatherman") said: "Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning".
I'll post more pics when I can again SEE the rose by dawn's early light. (It's 7:52 PM, PST now)
Update: This rose doesn't have any new buds now but it should have in a couple of days. I'll post more photos then.
I only have it with Abraham Darby and Gemini. Both are "newer" in my garden. 10 years instead of 20. Different sources for each. So I can't pinpoint why these two.
I remember reading years ago, in Sunset, to plant with the graft well above the soil line > in mild winter climates only. This was thought to discourage suckers. I have usually followed that practice.
In a previous garden I did as Seil says. Rip, don't cut! And it worked great. Don't wait another minute Sara_Ann. Remove a shovelful of soil so you can see the base of the Huey sucker and pull it down, out and away.
PS. 'reverting' would be used for another behavior.
I've only had it happen once, with Burning Desire, a J&P HT that wasn't very popular. I ripped off the sucker and never had the problem again.
Puttng the graft below the soil line usually hasn't been a problem, except once when the plant was completely buried and decided it wasn't going to leaf out. Fortunately I remembered where it was and replanted it--it is doing fine now.