Rose ID Help Please

Hi All, the neighbour's shrub border on the front runs along our drive and has this lovely mature rose in flower at the moment, just wondered which one it is, can anyone help?

Also when and how is the best way of propergating it, I would love to make some more plants of this wonderful rose? (perhaps this question is better asked in another section, sorry)

Thanks in advance :thumb:

 

Hi Bilbo

It's always difficult from a photo but I think it is a shrub rose called Ballerina. If so, you're in luck because it is apparently easy to get cuttings to strike and the plant is strong enough to grow on its own roots. Have a look at this link:-

Ballerina Rose

Last year I tried many ways of getting rose cuttings to grow. With this variety, you might well get them to strike just by doing the following:

Take 9-12 inch cuttings of nice, strong shoots, dip them in rooting compound (freely available from garden centres, not essential, but it helps) and plant them somewhere which is partially shaded but not too gloomy (not under a large tree, for example). Free draining soil is best, so if you can, add a bit of sharp sand to the soil when planting. You should probably wait until later in the season, around August-September, when the rose canes are a little more mature.

If you want to grow cuttings in pots, I find the best way is to mix a good quality compost with vermiculite so that the plants have a nice light open soil to get their roots into. Be generous with the size of your cuttings: generally, gardeners are used to using small amounts of material, but roses seem to take better from large cuttings.

Hope this helps.

 

Many thanks, I've rooted all sorts of cuttings before but never roses so I will definitely be having a go.

Such is my impatience at times :D (don't know why when I've waited months for some seeds to germinate? ha ha) I might take a small batch now and then do some more later on in the year as you suggest :thumb:

 

Go for it, Bilbo - I'm all for ignoring the rules. You'll probably find that it is your least promising cutting which strikes and grows into a prize monster. A lovely old lady who used to live nearby grew her magnificent climbing rose simply by pinching a bit from her sister's garden, stuffing it in the ground and forgetting it.

 

looks like our bog standard dogrose grows wild all over the place here

 

Thanks bambooruth, don't think it's a dogrose, I've got them in the hedge at the back, their flowers are more sparse as opposed to these being in dense bunches and this 'shrub' rose is quite dense and a lovely goblet shaped bush of about 4/5ft in height...:thumb:

 

I agree with Clare, it`s Ballerina.

 

well its a very bonny ballerina and if the perfumes anything like a dogrose id want 1 ,i did have a dogrose that flowered like the above the more i hacked it the better the flowers,got sick of all the thorns and got rid

 

Ruth, if you want a highly scented, THORNLESS rose, then you can`t beat Zephirine Drouhin.

 

oh wow thankyou, everyones roses on here has me hooked on roses ,just where i had the dogrose and would love another climber rose is next door to my neighbour her bairns got badly scratched a few times :o so felt it was best to get rid will definately hunt this 1 down to replace the dogrose,:yess:

 

It is superb, you wont regret it.

 

just been looking it up on the net,its absolutely gorgeous will definately be ordering a couple,a million thankyous and i`ll let everyone know when they arrive

 

Well out of that first batch of cuttings (6) 3 have rooted and have new growth....happy days :thumb:

 

Well done Bilbo.:yess: