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Owensboro, Ky.

Any rose experts out there? My mom always says that the rose bush that now produces dark red roses (tons of them), originally produced yellow roses...I always sort of laughed it off, thinking that she had forgotten replanting a different rose bush in the same location. Slap me up and send me home, yesterday the same rose bush that is loaded with dark red roses, pops, you guessed it, a yellow rose!!!! How rare is this? I know I have never seen it!!! Thanks for any input. Peace, Wayne

5/12/2006 2:56:21 PM

Salmon Arm, BC

Wayne...sounds like an old graft to me. It is possible to have two identical flowering bushes produce different colored flowers when planted in soils with different pH. Not too sure about this theory with roses though and especially not on the same plant. Deb

5/12/2006 3:22:30 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Yep the yellow graft is slow recessing and dieing. Then allowing the dominant red root stock to take over over.

5/12/2006 3:29:35 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Yep....Gotta cut off the suckers from the red producing root stock. Chances are they were more agressive than the yellow producing scion. Now they've taken over by shading out the less agressive yellow. Winter injury or disease may have taken out the yellow producers too.

5/12/2006 6:58:50 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Maybe I should have explained this better??? For the first 5 or 6 years that this rose bush was in the ground it produced giant yellow roses...then in one season...3 or 4 years ago it started producing (only) smaller red roses. I have lived hear for the last 2 1/2 years. Now there is on a stem that I have tracked back to the ground, on which there are numerous red roses, a large yellow rose. I think I understand the recessing theory, but how come a single yellow rose on a stem with red ones??? Thanks for all the input. Peace, Wayne

5/12/2006 8:51:11 PM