Dear readers,
I have been waiting for long, but finally my self-propagated roses opened their buds! I took many rose cuttings in spring and summer 2016, hoping they would produce roots and develop into plants. I must admit, propagating roses turned out to be quite a challenge. Many of my rose cuttings failed due to rotting. Nevertheless, it is such a wonderful feeling to see how some cuttings are little rose plants now. Six of them even produced buds this year and four are in bloom at the moment. Since I could´t remember which cutting is from which rose, it was a lovely surprise to see them flower for the first time. I am so pleased with their flowers and find it fascinating how such tiny plants can already produce such perfect looking flowers!
Gardener´s Propagation Week
As propagating roses was such a lovely experience for me, I would love to initiate a week every month in which I´d like to encourage other bloggers to post about the plants they propagated in their gardens or try to propagate at the moment. This, of course, could be about any kind of propagation such as taking cuttings, sowing seeds, dividing plants, or maybe some plants have self-sown in your garden. I´d be very happy if you were to participate in
Gardener´s Propagation Week, which will take place in the first week of every month from now on. I´d wanted it to be a week rather than just one day as this hopefully gives you more time to participate. After participating, please share the link of your post on plant propagation in a comment. I am sure there is so much to share about plant propagation and it would be lovely to hear about your tips and tricks and results. In case you would like to try yourself in propagating roses through cuttings, now is a great time to do so. After the first rose flush is over, we will probably all be busy cutting back our roses and I am sure friends, and neighbours as well as other gardeners will be happy to share some rose cuttings with you.
If you like the idea of
Gardener´s Propagation Week then please participate and share with other bloggers and gardeners.
I am looking forward to seeing your posts on plant propagation and hope you enjoy seeing my self-propagated roses!
Best wishes,
Lisa
