A walk along rows and rows of rose bushes at your local nursery is a wonderful sight, but you have to look at the price tags.Ye Gads!Visions of how nice that bare spot in your yard is going to look are frightening.Don't despair.You can get your rose bush for free.If you don't mind waiting for it to grow, you can fill that bare spot in your yard using a clipping from one of your existing rose bushes.Learn how.
Step 1: Prepare the area where you plan to plant your clipping.
If you use a pot, fill it halfway up with soil and add some water.If it's planted in the ground, you need to dig a hole, add potting soil and moisten it.
Step 2: If you want to grow a new bush from the rose bush, take a cutting.
It can be either a whole branch or a stem.Remove the outer covering of the clipping at the bottom with your knife.The rooting hormone can get into the stem.
Step 3: You can dip the part of the clipping that you just skimmed into rooting hormone.
To remove the excess, tap it a few times.
Step 4: Plant the cutting immediately.
It should start to put out roots within a week or so if everything goes well.