Propagation

Hi, does anybody out there do any rose propagation? I've tried a few cuttings with varying levels of success, usualy the more vigorous varieties seem to do fairly well, but rarely as well as roses bought from usual garden centre and plant breeders/growers, presumably they are all budded.

I've not tried budding myself, my father and grandfather did quite a lot though, grew their own briar stock too.

Anybody know of a cheap source of briars apart from raiding the hedgerows?

 

Yes, I have made cuttings of Iceberg that are doing fairly well, the other usually successful one is a bit older, one of my favourite red climbers, Ard's Rover. It was always a "family favourite", dad and his brother always took a cutting or two when they moved house, took me a few years to find one, finally got one from Peter Beales; since then I've taken a few cuttings, most have taken.