Propagation: 2015 Seed Starting, Part 5, 3 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
I got my first Constance Spry from Pickering, but I got my second from Roses Unlimited. Although an own root, it is doing a quite nice job jumping out of the ground.

It arrived on May 2, 2013. It's the one on the right.

I put it in a pot, and by July 24, 2013, it was quite substantial. It's on my front parkway.

Early June of 2014, first bloom.

Mid-June, flowering in clusters.

In late July (the 26th), with Salvia 'Swan Lake'. lilium 'Anastasia' and lilium 'Silver Sunburst'. Those lilies are bullet proof.

Amazing that an own root rose could grow so quickly! I expected it to be slower, but it pretty much kept pace with my Pickering one, which was grafted. I have never lost a grafted rose from Pickering.