Bloomin' beautiful...

Damon, I do have those roses and I have the bigger growing varieties they have, Guy Savoy, Grimaldi, Paul Cezanne , Grand Nord and the climber Nehema. Also I have Chartreuse de Parme, Chandon Rosier and Mitsouko which haven't grown as much. I lost some because of a dry year, also they have been moved once since.
I have found GreenEroses might be selling Smooth Ballerina and other Smooth roses. The Internet is a amazing thing ! Also I have a 2009 Hedgerow catalogue that has Smooth Angel and Smooth Lady.
I not into growing cuttings that much now, I know the disappointments as well as the successes of growing ownroots and getting them established. I would rather just buy the grafted roses now. I will grow certain cuttings in the future but I am having a break from it and the ones I do then will be well watered and cared for, kept in the shade house for a few years.

Hi David!

Thanks for that info! For some reason I thought anything that prevented the PBR holder from getting their cut was a "no no" so it's good to know this is not the case!

Karen, I had all the Delbards but lost a few during the drought. I will replace a couple of them but it's the newer varieties I am going to get this year! Some of them look really nice & unusual...

Glad you found some smooth roses and yes, the internet is an amazing thing (having said this I am thinking of getting it disconnected for a while though LOL).

I am hopeless at growing roses from cuttings; I think I water things too much & they seem to always rot! I am going to try to get it right though!!!

"Betty Prior"


"Ralph's Creeper" (perhaps a better photo than the previous one!)


"Ralph's Creeper" (from the other side! LOL!!!)

Damo wrote:Hi David!

Thanks for that info! For some reason I thought anything that prevented the PBR holder from getting their cut was a "no no" so it's good to know this is not the case!

It is the case I'm afraid this DOES extend to gifting plants AND propagating material.

Thanks for clearing this up Simon...it confuses me somewhat & that is why nothing with any hint of protection leaves my property! LOL

lol... remember.. if it's not on it's not on!

BTW - loving the colours of the back of 'Ralph's Creeper' - just beautiful!

I'm glad you liked the colours Simon...I thought you would!

I always look at my roses from every angle & I am often surprised at what I find! I get down low amongst them when weeding etc & I am often stunned by how a rose looks from underneath & backlit by sunlight or against a blue - or even grey - sky!

It reminds me of a watercolour painting

Me too! Off to check out your (25) pics!

Damo, I got looking at the Flower Garden site last night and have picked out a list of Delbard for this winter, so thanks for motivating me to do this. You are right, there are some nice new ones.
I have grown many roses from cuttings, I just got peeved off at loosing quite a few this year last Spring/early Summer. A few or more I bought from Hedgerow with great root systems and I lost them too. One Alba rose I had bought a ownroot and a grafted of it, they were put together on one side of a arch with mulch and fairly good watering. The grafted one is still there growing but the ownroot has long ago died.
Keep trying with growing cuttings, its a great feeling to grow a rose from a cutting and I am very proud of all the ownroots I have grown. To be able to graft and grow from cuttings is the way to go. Probably a young grafted rose might not have had much more advantage over a own root, its the bought grafted rose that has the advantage because of there advanced rootstock stage. It might be like buying a hot chook from the shop, they are tender and lovely to eat. But if you cook a young chook from your chooks running around at home, they are as tough as anything.
The rose nurseries must feed their rootstocks fertilizers etc and have that many kept in a proper growing set up, that they can make money off them even if they have to water them for two years. Bruce or Simon, do you know their secrets of how they grow them in bulk so they make a profit ?
Lynette has Ralph's Creeper. I grew it from a cutting once and thought it was a very cheery looking rose, but then I lost it somehow. I will try growing it again now. Simon I could get you some cuttings as it might be a larger plant than Damo's. Or perhaps have cuttings from both plants in case one of them has mosiac virus. I could send it with some Angela cuttings too.

Greetings from Mittagong!!!

You can never have too many roses Karen (well I suppose one actually can LOL) so buy up big I say!!! Are you getting a lot of roses this year? It will be great to compare how the same Delbard roses do for both of us - assuming we get the same varieties that is - but I think we have very similar growing conditions so I'm guessing there might be little difference! Mine will be grown in pots though...

I am going to try & grow all my roses on their own roots if possible. Re-doing my entire garden will give me the opportunity to do this. Those roses that obviously grow better on rootstocks can be grown in an out of the way place...or I will bury the rootstock!

Anyway, by reading everyone's experiences of growing cuttings on here, I will find the way that suits me best I am sure!

'About Face' (Such a pretty rose IMO...shame about the ever-present blackspot it gets here though!!!)


'Caramella'


'Paris 2000' (Again! LOL)