Own-root Roses and Bare-Root Roses - What’s the Difference

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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What are you getting when you buy a rose at a big box store? Usually a grafted rose. A better option is to purchase an own-root rose, which is not only hardier, but will live much longer. Ben Hanna of Heirloom Roses explains why here. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3KgskuN Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4aeyANW Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3wBpUDu EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4dyTdXY Learn More:How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Old Garden RosesConnect With Ben Hanna:Ben Hanna is the President and Owner of Heirloom Roses in St. Paul, Oregon, the premier nursery for own-root roses shipped directly to customers in the US and Canada. Ben’s love of roses goes back to his grandparents’ garden, and he even proposed to his wife, Kara, at the Portland International Rose Garden. Constantly expanding the company and improving systems and procedures, Ben keeps the customer’s experience and gardening success in mind. Heirloom Roses Shop Instagram Facebook YouTube Pinterest Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.8	If you're a new rose grower you may not even know what I'm about to talk about exists but in fact it does we're talking today about own root roses and we have probably one of the best guys out there to explain it for us.
0:26.9	We have Ben Hanna back on the show from Erloom Roses who produces own root roses and ships it directly to your door.
0:35.0	And I've got about four or five of them in my garden as we speak.
0:37.8	So yesterday, Ben, we kind of talked about the story, how you guys got into it and
0:42.4	acquired the Airlum Roses business and have
0:44.3	grown that. But why don't we just like go back to the basics? When you get a rose, let's say from a
0:51.1	big box store or a local nursery,
0:54.0	what are you actually getting there?
0:55.6	Many times you're buying a rose that's been grafted.
0:58.8	And so there's a root stock,
1:00.7	and then there's the actual plant that you want that's been grafted into the top.
1:05.0	And when they graft it's the root stock below and then they're grafting on this this plant that is going to grow on top.
1:13.0	And the theory is that it's a healthier plant below
1:16.0	or it's a healthy root stock
1:18.0	and it's going to push vibrant growth to the top.
1:20.0	Now the downside of that is that that graft union can be weak and there can be
1:27.0	problems with that with either disease or insects and certainly cold
1:30.8	temperatures that is a spot that if and you have a
1:35.0	have a freeze or a bad winter that will can freeze and you're gonna basically
1:38.0	lose your whole plant.
1:39.5	Another issue is that the root stock is extremely vigorous growing and so you're going to have that
1:45.9	root stock want to overtake the top plant.
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