This is what greeted me when checking things this morning.
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Showing posts with label Schmidt's Smooth Yellow. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
It's Lovely When Things Work "Just Right"!
March 27, I posted about Schmidt's Smooth Yellow, the thornless, yellow polyantha Jackie Schmidt rescued from a 1930's cottage to be torn down in her town. I removed the cuttings from their two week wrap and planted them that date.
This is what greeted me when checking things this morning.
This is a 16 oz. root ball from a foam cup.
The buds are beginning to swell!
It's lovely when things work "just right"! The cuttings arrived March 13. They were potted March 27. Eight days later, a root!
This is what greeted me when checking things this morning.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Keeping my fingers crossed!
It's been two weeks since receiving and wrapping the cuttings of Schmidt's Smooth Yellow, the thornless, yellow poly Jackie Schmidt rescued from an old cottage in her coastal California town.
I was excited to find they had callused and actually begun to form roots on one cutting! These have been potted deeply in new soil and placed with the other cuttings out front where they will receive part day, morning sun. Hopefully, getting this remarkable rose growing in more gardens will not only insure its survival, but assist in determining what its original name might be. Yes, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
I was excited to find they had callused and actually begun to form roots on one cutting! These have been potted deeply in new soil and placed with the other cuttings out front where they will receive part day, morning sun. Hopefully, getting this remarkable rose growing in more gardens will not only insure its survival, but assist in determining what its original name might be. Yes, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
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