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How to grow roses from cutting

Propagate Roses :

1. Cut 8 to 9 inches of a long stem rose at 45-degree angle. 

2. Remove spent blooms, leaves, or rose hips. 

3. Dip stem in cinnamon. 

4. Take a potato, remove any "eyes". 

5. Cut it in half and bore a hollow for rose stem. 

6. Plant about 4 inches into the ground or pot with moist soil. 

7. Cover with a glass jar. 

8. Planting on the north side will give the roses soft morning sun. 

9. Water to keep the soil moist, but do not soak soil. 

10. Transplant in about two months.

Make Home Remedies for Pests and Diseases

If you are losing the battle with bugs and disease, try these environmentally friendly alternatives to pesticides. Many problems can be managed with cultural controls before they get out of hand (like pruning off infected leaves or physically removing pests), but sometimes you need more – especially during cool, wet weather.

Natural solutions require more frequent application to achieve control, but do not pose significant health risks like traditional chemicals. As an added benefit, they are generally inexpensive to prepare. Don’t forget to spray the underside of leaves as well as the upper surface during application.

Aphids, Mites, Scale & Whiteflies

• Orange Oil Cleaner – Dilute 1 teaspoon per gallon of water. Use as needed by spraying on leaves. Good coverage is important: Wet leaf surfaces to the point of drip.
• Soap Spray – Mix ½ teaspoon mild dish soap and 1 teaspoon cooking oil in a 1-quart sprayer filled with water. Spray liberally over entire plant.
• Bring in Ladybugs – To keep aphids in check, release ladybugs on the affected plant. They will stay as long as there is shelter and host bugs to feed on.
• Blast with Water – Aphids may also be dislodged by a strong jet of water.

Slugs & Snails

• Beer – Pour an inch of beer into the bottom of an empty tuna or cat food can. Set it in the garden. Slugs and snails, attracted to the yeast in beer, crawl in and drown.
• Handpick – Collect at night and remove from the garden area.
• Coarse Sand, ¼”-minus Gravel, or Hazelnut Shells – Apply sand or gravel in trails around roses, or topdress beds with crushed hazelnut shells. Slugs and snails prefer not to cross abrasive surfaces.

Powdery Mildews, Blackspot & Rusts

• Baking Soda Spray – Mix 1 tablespoon baking soda and 1 teaspoon cooking oil in 1 gallon of water. Place in spray bottle or tank sprayer and apply liberally. Repeat as needed.
• Sanitation – Remove infected leaves and destroy. Do not compost. Keep the ground surrounding your roses free of leaf debris and weeds.
• Cold Water – For Powdery Mildew, spray affected leaves with cold water early in the morning and allow leaves to dry in the sun.

Yellow Leaves

• Leaves fall when tapped - Too much water.
• Leaves stay on when tapped - Too dry.
• Crunchy leaves - Too dry and too late to save. Cut back as needed to promote regrowth.
• Exceptions: Some rose leaves turn yellow in the fall. This is normal coloration.

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The Easiest Roses You Can Grow

Knock Out

Perhaps the best-known landscape rose, 'Knock Out' bears masses of cherry-red blooms over dark red foliage. It's disease resistant and blooms all season long.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Little Mischief

Don't let its name deceive you; 'Little Mischief' is a perfect resident for any sunny garden. It produces masses of red flowers (that fade to hot pink as they age) all season long. And this variety isn't bothered one bit by disease.

Size: To 2 feet tall

Flower Carpet Scarlet

A flamboyantly colored groundcover rose, 'Flower Carpet Scarlet' will fill your landscape with color all summer and autumn thanks to its clusters of bright scarlet-red blooms.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Rainbow Knock Out

An easy-to-grow rose perfect for any sunny landscape spot, 'Rainbow Knock Out' produces cute, coral-pink blooms all season long.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Snowdrift

It's tough to beat 'Snowdrift' for an easy-growing, white-flowering rose. This hardy shrub produces full white flowers all season long and isn't touched by disease. The gorgeous blooms are great for cutting.

Size: To 4 feet tall

Paint the Town

Incredibly disease-resistant and easy to grow, this great rose produces tons of red flowers all season long. The flowers are perfectly shaped and its mounding habit makes it an ideal ground cover for sunny spots.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Home Run

Bred from the 'Knock Out' rose line, 'Home Run' offers single rich-red blooms from late spring to fall. The beautiful blooms also offer a slight fragrance.

Size: To 4 feet tall

All the Rage

This gorgeous rose is all about color. The buds start out a charming shade of coral, then open to apricot-pink flowers with bright yellow centers. As the blooms age, they turn a lovely shade of pink. Even better, though, is the plant's disease-resistant nature, everblooming habit, and glossy green foliage.

Size: To 4 feet tall

Firecracker

'Firecracker' adorns itself with masses of bright cherry-red blooms. Each bloom has a cheery white center. This low-maintenance, disease-resistant plant is in bloom all summer.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Grandma's Blessing

Among the most beautiful of the new breed of low-care roses, 'Grandma's Blessing' offers gorgeous dusty-pink blooms that are packed with a sweet fragrance. And it blooms all summer.

Size: To 3 1/2 feet tall

Kiss Me

Grow this one for its incredible fragrance! 'Kiss Me' not only smells sweet, but it looks great, too, with its 4-inch pink flowers. This easy-to-grow rose keeps blooming all summer.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Mystic Fairy

An everblooming shrub rose, 'Mystic Fairy' produces loads of red flowers over shiny, disease-resistant foliage. Its tidy habit makes it great for a low hedge, even in tough spots.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Superhero

With a name like this, you'd expect it to be great. This ever-blooming 'Superhero' rose has large, beautifully formed flowers on an easy-growing, disease-resistant shrub.

Size: To 5 feet tall

Sunrise Sunset

This rose performs beautifully in just about every climate. It bears fuchsia-pink flowers that fade to apricot at the center. It blooms nonstop all season long and is a great ground cover.

Size: To 3 feet tall

Sweet Fragrance

It's hard not to fall for the luscious scent of Sweet Fragrance. This disease-resistant plant bears lots of coral-apricot flowers all season long.

Size: To 5 feet tall

Yellow Submarine

Add cheer to your garden with this super-easy yellow rose. The long-lasting flowers are great for cutting and appear throughout the summer.

Size: To 4 feet tall

Planting Roses from cuttings

Propagating roses by cuttings is easy, and it brings certain side benefits.

1) In an out-of-the-way part of the garden, which gets some shade during the hottest part of the day, dig a trench that has one vertical side. It should be around 6in (15cm) deep; place an inch or two of sharp sand in the bottom.

(2) Choose a stem – about the thickness of a pencil – from the rose you wish to propagate. The wood should be straight (no kinks), ripe (tell by being able to break a thorn off cleanly), and young (from this year’s growth).

3) The cutting should be about 9in (23cm) long. Cut just below a bud at the base. Then remove the leaves and thorns from the bottom half. You can leave a couple of leaf systems at the top of the cutting if you wish, but I’ve removed mine.

(4) Insert each cutting so that it is two-thirds buried, making sure that its base is well into the sharp sand. Firm the sand around the base, to exclude as much air as possible. Cuttings should be set about 6in (15cm) apart.

(5) Replace soil into the trench and firm it in place; don’t damage the cuttings as you do this. Keep the cuttings watered throughout summer. By November they should have rooted well and be ready for transplanting.

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