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WILD ROSES

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  • 03-07-2009 10:01pm
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    dh0661
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭


    Hi all - on a road that I regularly pass there are some beautiful wild roses growing on the ditches

    I would love to get some of these growing on the ditch that surrounds the back of our house, but I haven't a clue where to start - well actually I do, I know that I have to get cuttings from these bushes, but that is as far as my knowledge goes.

    Can anyone help, I would need A to Z help please.


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    old boy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭old boy


    best wait until there is a r in the month, then remove a complete item ie the root and re plant, dunno if removing wild roses is against regulations.


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    John mac
    Registered Users Posts: 5,118 ✭✭✭John mac


    you can also collect the seeds (rose hips) when they come out.

    plant then in small pots and watch them grow.

    I have done this and it works well.


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    JohnDeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭JohnDeb


    Don't even bother putting them in pots. Wait until the hips are soft and come off the plant easily and then just scatter them where you want roses.....


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    dh0661
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    OP back again - thanks for the replies, after a bit of googling I presume that I would have to take "cuttings"? and put them in a "rooting powder?, I have no idea how to go about this.

    Do you think that the local garden centre might be able to help?

    I don't like the idea of asking them to help me bypass their offerings.


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