Hey, it's Jason here at Fraser Valley Rose farm. Well, I'm here with one of my favorite roses
This is Charles de Mills and I made an earlier video on this one under the title Five Purple Roses
So if you want to see how this one looks in bloom
You can look up that video. Now what I want to show you today is not something about its flowers
but about its growth habit and to do that I'm gonna have to pick up the camera
Okay, there's the foliage, and looking downwards
It isn't just in one big clump, in fact what you'll find if you start to follow along the ground here is
That it has something called
Suckers. Now, these are a good 2 to 3 feet away from the base of the rose
this one here is
even further and
It just continues to wander and it's suckering
Outwards from the base of the plant. So why is it doing that? What does it mean?
Well, it's just like I propagate roses in my greenhouse. I take cuttings and stick them and so on and
What the Rose does in this case is it's naturally trying to propagate itself
So from the base of the rose
It has a stem that runs underground some distance from the main rose. I've seen it on some roses here
It's 5 or 6 feet because I've kept it under control
But I've seen it on some roses go up to 10 or 12 or 15 feet
just a big sucker that runs out there and then creates a new rose if
You think about it roses are in the family with raspberries and blackberries and other brambles and not even that distantly related
so it actually has that tendency already to begin to sucker and
thicket
Now at this point I want to talk about the term
suckering because you'll hear it on roses as a universally bad thing and
There is a distinction to be made. I made a video on own root versus grafted roses
This one is growing on its own roots. And so all of the suckers that you see running out there. Those are true suckers
from the same genetic material
So each one is genetically identical to Charles de Mills an ancient Gallica rose with some exceptional qualities
what you may find in your grafted roses is that when you see a sucker emerge from the base of the rose it has
weird
Unremarkable flowers or a growth habit that you don't like at all. That's because the
grafted root stock is genetically different than the top stock of the rose and those you definitely have to remove and
typically
I mean
There are some that have some value but typically there have no value to hold on to and put into your garden
what I'm gonna show you how to do today is to take
The suckers out of the ground and make new plants out of them, which is something you can do with this
But first just really quickly some of the advantages and disadvantages of roses that sucker
So like I say this is an ancient and and very garden worthy rose, so I don't mind that
it's suckers around a little bit the
advantages are that like I say it's easy to propagate from but also
that if you have a
Neglected patch of your yard if some place you'd like a low hedge or you don't mind where a rose
thickets a little bit it can make a wonderful display quite quickly with very very little
Intervention on your part. It'll just do it all on its own
One of the downsides is exactly that if you don't have that plan for your garden
It's gonna take some maintenance to try to keep this under control and when I find in my garden here
I'll keep this one under fairly good control with about two sessions a year of about a half hour
Just going in there with a shovel
Separating out the suckers and pulling them out. Sometimes I propagate from it
Sometimes I don't so that's the that's the way to keep it under control
So what I want to show you now is how to propagate from it
And what I'm gonna do so just gonna pull up a section
Here and it was as easy
as that
what I have here is
A section of the sucker with some roots on it. You can see it actually has
little roots
at the base of the plant there and it has some some
Some leaves on it
so all I have to do I
Showed you this on my video on dividing perennials is all I'd have to have is a section with some
Roots on it and with some leaves on it and we're all set to go. Just stick that into a pot and
good chance like in my experience about ninety or ninety-five percent chance that this will make a
Viable rose and it does it quickly like in my case
I made this one here is a rose that I took from the ground. It's a different rose. This is Rose de Rescht
that I took from the ground about four or five weeks ago and if I tip this out
You can see
that it's already rooted and
That's as I say four or five weeks. This will be totally ready for sale in the spring
So one other quick discussion is which roses do this
Well, you're gonna find it more commonly in some of the species roses
So I find this in the rugosa roses quite commonly. I find this in Rosa davidii.
Some of the Scots roses or Scots bred roses. So the closer they are to wild roses more often
They have this suckering habit and a lot of times the more
Cultivated roses or more bred roses like the hybrid teas the floribundas the grandiflora. They don't have this feature of suckering
Well, I know this was a quick video, but I want to finish before the Sun came up and my light gets terrible
So if you have any further questions on suffering, please leave them below the video