Rooting Roses for the Garden

    Feeling like the flowers were so wasted, (I mean they die and you throw them away!), I told Dave not to buy flowers for me. Imagine that!

    I have a whole new perspective on this now. Not only do you get to enjoy the beauty and fragrance of the bouquet, but then enjoy watching as they take on new life, rooting, planting, and then enjoying them in your garden! Imagine telling your friends and family how you received the flowers from someone and now have plants from those bouquets, growing in your garden!

    Obviously, I am trying this to see if I can actually create a plant for my garden!  If rooting roses is this easy, why have I not done this before?

   This is a picture of a single-stemmed rose, which was given to my daughter. When the bloom was spent, I cut off the blossom, cut the stem at an angle below a leaf node in two places, creating two potential plants.

    These have been in a glass in my kitchen window for about two and a half weeks now. As you can see there is new growth. Each day I look to see if roots are developing. I expect it to take a few weeks, but will keep you posted on the progress…