Gardening Question of the Week
Can You Root Store Bought Roses?

Here's a question DGato asked on the About Gardening Forum and it's probably crossed you mind once or twice, when you received a particularly nice cut rose. "Can store-bought roses be rooted and grown? I have two stems with three segements each, and I'd like to try to grow them. I'm currently soaking them in water. What do I do and what am I currently doing wrong?"

They might root, but most cut roses are grown on plants that have been grafted onto the rootstock of a different kind of rose, for strength, disease resistance or hardiness. And cut roses that have been sitting in water have already expended a lot of energy in blooming. So there's no guarantee your rose will thrive, even it if does root. That said, you have nothing to lose by trying and here's how.