Hi there
it all started when I saw a lovely, reasonably healthy tea hybrid at a neighbours garden. They would`t know which cultivar, only that it is "a very old plant", already there when they got the garden.

It has half filled, dark red flowers, has a strong scent and grows somewhat leggy, in part shade.

So first I asked a specialized nursery how much it would be if they grafted some buds for me (an arm and a leg)

so, then I read up on grafting/ oculating/ budding(?) and will give it a go.

Lucky me, I have to deal with a larg nursery in line of my work, and I just ordered 10 rootstock Rosa canina cultivars for the price of a medium tall coffee to go.

One detail question:
a very precise book described that one should not plant but bury the root stock plants in fall and plant them in March, when most of he frost is over.

Why is that, I just thought, the plants woulb be stronger if planted earlier?

Well, just curious, and quite excited (ok, it`s a long way till the actual grafting, but still...)

Thanks for your thoughts, bye, Lin

ps: and I found a rose very similar to that one in a show garden: Mister Lincoln, and ordered one, to be on the safe side

This post was edited by linaria on Thu, Oct 2, 14 at 5:32