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Best Thanksgiving day wishes to all that celebrate.
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Aphids revenge. Country queensland and the first little blighters were fat and happy on Reine Victoria, Oceane and Versigny (all early starters with red new foliage). As I sprayed the last of my white oil into the crevices of versigny, I fell over backwards, sideways, I don't know which ways but right into Oceane. So I have quit for the day in disgust. Am I a serious rose gardener now?
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Ouch!
A rose that never got aphids in my garden was "Mrs Heggie's Red Tea" (probably Beaute Inconstante, in commerce in Aus incorrectly as Papillon). But it can get very big in all directions: like "Rose Hedge Cottage" Tea it is not one I'd recommend if you have little birds that plant cherryplums or blackberry in the middle of things.
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29 AUG 22 by
 Lee H.
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I think the serious rose gardeners are asking “is Oceane OK?” ;-)
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Felichan novjaron: estu paco.
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And to you too Margaret. Peace most of all, to everybody who grows roses.
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Hi all,
I recently cut back a couple of climbers (white mama cochet, not sure of the rest) and buried the branches at the bottom of a hugelkultur bed to fill space. A few months later I'm finding many healthy rose shoots coming out of the soil! I'm wondering if anyone has propagation techniques that involve completely burying a cutting? The closest thing I can find is the "layering" technique of stripping part of an intact branch and burying the end. It surprised me to see so many shoots as most of my (intentional) attempts previously have failed using the technique of burying one node of a semi hardwood cutting below soil and keeping the top leaf node damp. Perhaps burying the entire cutting helps maintain even moisture?
Thanks for any insight.
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I had to look up a hugelkultur bed and found it most interesting - I gather it is basically a compost heap using lots of rotted wood. So I wonder if it was the extremely fertile hugelkultur bed you buried them in, and not the technique of burying the cutting that gave you success. Were your previous attempts putting the cuttings in a hugelkultur bed, or other soil? I would think that you may have needed more than one node below and one above.
Does wood have the magic touch, or was it the acidity?
I recall an article by Ralph Morris in the Australian Rose Annual 1997, p103 wherein he related the success at last “one factor which years ago boosted the strike rate of Fortuniana cuttings was the use of fresh Jarrah (eucalyptus marginata) sawdust as a striking medium. The sawdust has a pH of 4.5 to 5.0).”
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