"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , Franz Heymann
writes
I have a few shrub roses of the Rugosa type. They are all throwng up
suckers by the dozen.
My question is whether such roses are customarily grown as cuttings,
or
are they grafted?
The reason I ask is to help me decide whether to remove the suckers
and/or to replant them, or whether I just leave them on the parent
bushes.
The latter will lead to trouble sooner rather than later, as my plants
are
spreading in width at about 2 ft per year.

Mine are on their own roots, and they do sucker pretty freely.

Can you not tell from the foliage? Is it rugosa type or dog rose type?

The growth is clearly rugosa type. But being a suspicious sort of a bloke,
I had wondered whether my roses were perhaps grafted on to wild rugosa
stock. I have a vague memory that rugosa is used for stock for grafting and
budding, but I may be wrong.

[Franz Heymann]