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Old 04-04-2009, 02:58 PM   #1
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Antique Roses

My antique rose bush is LOADED with blooms and buds!! It is a 1917 variety, Mrs. B.R. Cant. The roses are cabbage style, so not the beautiful cut roses that we see in the floral shops, but beautiful nonetheless. I trimmed the bush back severely in Feb. It will grow to about 8' X 8' if you let it, and I don't like it to get that big. It's the same bush in my avatar.
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Old 04-04-2009, 03:44 PM   #2
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Very pretty Gayle. I feel like such a dork now, but when we first moved here, we were young and we took out 3 or 4 rose type bushes and 2 lilac trees. We just didn't want to spend the time mowing around them all the time. Now 30 + years later...I wish we still had them.
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Old 04-04-2009, 05:12 PM   #3
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Yep, I know what you mean! I did some silly things like that when I was young too. I wish the rose bush was not quite so big. I like it because it provides a visual barrier to the yard next door, but I (stupidly) planted it too close to the chain link fence behind it, so I have to keep close watch on it or it will grow through the holes in the fence. We have great neighbors, and they've never said a word, but they have a five year old girl and I don't want her to ever get stuck by the thorny rose branches.

Janet, antique roses are pretty common, and they are very bug resistant and very easy to grow. You should find a couple and plant them - they grow very quickly
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Old 04-04-2009, 05:22 PM   #4
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Those are beautiful!! Do they smell pretty too?
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Old 04-05-2009, 04:32 AM   #5
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Gayle, your bush is beautiful!! My mother loved roses, so we had some of these as well as the cut flower variety. We had a pink antique rose like yours, and another that was more of a maroon color that was really pretty. We also had a miniature pale pink rose. It was grown from a cutting from one an uncle had. His was by his front door and he would pinch off a flower and wear it in the button hole on the lapel of his suit every Sunday. We've lost those plants & hubby isn't fond of cleaning around roses. Do miss them. They are so colorful and smell sooooo good.
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Oh Marilyn, what a great story about your uncle and the rose in the lapel every sunday! I love it!

I know what your husband means about cleaning around rose bushes, and also trimming them. I don't like the clean up after a heavy trimming. BUT I've learned to call someone to come clean up the brush, rather than trying to pick it up myself. I don't like having to pay for things that I can do, but it beats getting scratched to pieces.
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Your roses are very beautiful, Gayle!!! I can remember my Great-grandmother that lived right next door to us had several of those in her front yard and they were beautiful too.

FYI--I don't know if you know this or not, but to start a rose bush just cut a piece of stem (about 8 - 10 inches or so). Then stick it in the soil on the north side of your house next to the foundation. Next put a canning jar over it and leave it until it's well started. I've had them start but never left them long enough to get a good root base so make sure that you leave them for quite a while.
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They are so lovely Gayle! Make me want to sit on your lawn with a nice cold drink, admire them and listen to the birds and the children play
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FYI--I don't know if you know this or not, but to start a rose bush just cut a piece of stem (about 8 - 10 inches or so). Then stick it in the soil on the north side of your house next to the foundation. Next put a canning jar over it and leave it until it's well started. I've had them start but never left them long enough to get a good root base so make sure that you leave them for quite a while.

I knew you could start roses by cuttings, but I didn't know how - thanks so much for the info - I might try that just to see if it works!
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They are so lovely Gayle! Make me want to sit on your lawn with a nice cold drink, admire them and listen to the birds and the children play
I know! Our back porch faces that rose bush! We do sit out there quite a bit in the spring and fall. We love it!
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FYI--I don't know if you know this or not, but to start a rose bush just cut a piece of stem (about 8 - 10 inches or so). Then stick it in the soil on the north side of your house next to the foundation. Next put a canning jar over it and leave it until it's well started. I've had them start but never left them long enough to get a good root base so make sure that you leave them for quite a while.
I know this works. That's how we were able to start a cutting from my uncle's rose. Don't know if mother used the fruit jar or not, but it sounds like a good idea to hold the moisture in.

The antique roses can be propogated this way, I'm sure. I know my mother did it. Not so sure if you can start hybrid roses from a cutting. The people who propogate those usually graft them onto a hardy root stock, but it's definitely worth a try!!
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Your roses are beautiful and I love the stories. If I can get the cuttings to grow, I'll have 2 acres of roses in no time! Mine have made a couple of roses, but the g-kids always want to cut them for their mommies.

My Amaryllis bloomed out and lots of the daffodils are out. I'm going to throw some plastic easter eggs in their and make pictures.
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Those are beautiful Gayle.

You're just growing up a storm there, what with the veggies and the roses!

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I love roses, yours are very pretty Gayle, thanks for sharing!!
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