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Ok thanks Ann. These are softwood cuttings. There is one plant that has leaves unlike others but this is my first rodeo at cuttings. The mother plant has not shown any signs. I will post a photo soon. What I see may be entirely normal. I hope you know what a help your knowledge and willingness to share is for all of us. I'm truly grateful!
Susan

Kate your 'Eden' is stunning. I bought her own root from Heirloom last year. She survived the winter pretty much unscathed but only had one flower this year. But I've read that she's a bit stingy at first so I'm willing to be patient with her since her flowers are so gorgeous and she has been disease free.
I also have Clair Matin and Compassion. Both are own root from last year. Compassion died back to the ground and seems to be putting all her energy into growing canes this year since she only flowered once so far, but I'm hoping some of the new growth has buds hidden within :). I hope she'll get more cane hardy with age since her flowers are gorgeous and have such a nice scent and she has hardly any thorns so perfect for an entrance arbor. Clair Matin was very winter hardy with little cane damage and is on her second flush while being grown in partial sun so not the best conditions. She is very healthy so far, the flowers are a beautiful soft peachy rose with dark buds, are bumble bee magnets and have a wonderful soft scent. Overall I'm very happy with her.
New this year are Kordes 'Rosanna', 'Golden Gate' and 'Moonlight'. So far 'Rosanna' is growing the best and is now setting buds. 'Moonlight' and 'Golden Gate' don't seem very vigorous and have not flowered but they were both pretty small when I got them so I'm learning patience. These are all own root as well and none are sprayed for disease or insects.
Sharon

One more comment, is that cane receives sunlight and those bottom leaves don't start green up more than that fast. I personally would not wait long to remove the cane. No I don't run around my yard starring at all the red growth. Almost all of my roses have red new growth some vary dark red. I do thou notice one that has to many red leaves on a cane and will make a note to watch for it to begin to green up. Why think about taking off a healthy cane when I know it's growing fast and the leaves haven't had a chance to green up yet. I won't but I won't wait to long because I have 100 others roses to protect. Better to lose a cane than the whole bush. Having lost many roses to rrd sometimes I go with my gut instincts.

I hear ya Patti! I took out the cane. Healthy new growth or not. After the Clair Matin experience it's just not worth waiting. Not at this time anyway.
For me, removing a cane is far better than removing a bush!
Just something weird about it. Doesn't mean it's RRD.
Susan

Thanks irisgal. When my granddaughter was two she watched a video over and over and over and.....well you get the idea, that was titled Rascal the Rabbit. She'd come into the den and ask to watch Wascal Wabbit so anytime I think of rabbits I think of her talking before she could say her Rs.
The rabbit hasn't been back and I haven't seen anymore symptoms of him eating my roses so I'm hopeful he moved on across the field into someone else's yard.

I have a really polite rabbit that lives in my extremely old/big boxwoods behind my front and side rose gardens right by the house. He rarely eats any roses or their leaves at all! It's very nice of him/her :) I do have a bunch of clover and violets right nearby, so maybe rabbits prefer those for salads?
His cousins in other parts of the yard, however, are not so nice to the small roses. Has anyone ever tried Tobasco sauce? I have one poor rose that gets eaten down to twigs every single spring!




Well, that's the thing. John Walden visited my garden shortly after PT was released. I asked him why they foisted such a dawg on the public. His response was, "if you think it's bad NOW, you should have seen it before we 'cleaned it up'. " He said J&P bought Armstrong Roses just to get their patents as things like Double Delight were still under patent. He also said their stock was "so badly virused, it had to be burned in the fields". From what John said, PT IS RMV free, or was when released. He also said there was "a better one in the pipeline". It was released. Remember Tigress? Yeah, very few others do, either. It was stronger but no "better". Fortuniana MIGHT improve it, but it just is not a decent plant.



We have so much poison ivy here that preschoolers can accurately identify it! Great idea, though! And I think my yard is a favored pass - through bcs for some bizarre horticultural reason, my wild area is poison ivy-free and blackberry free! I tried encouraging the holly back there to into the "bald" spits, but it just won't. Holly has a mind of its own, preferring to grow up under my screened porch and garage wall ; )
The wild blackberries refuse to be managed, too. Have tried to get them to grow up the paths, but to no avail. And they are fierce! I usually look like I have been in a multi cat fight after tangling with those thorny beasts.
Am hoping to get a former Youth Group kid to dig up a bit on the hill before he leaves for college, and then supplement with Christopher's wheelbarrow recipe and get a couple of Darlow's Enigma in before a couple of weeks are out. I am hoping that will at least give me an idea if this will work. I'm planning on putting tomato cages over the young plants to prevent trampling. Have an email into Long Ago to see if she has any DE. It's a 4hr drive, but might be better than stressing a plant by shipping it in August heat.






Cool experiment!
I got 13 in the little bucket on the front porch yesterday. LOL! I haven't checked the others today.