Dogrose

Looking to bring a little of the countryside feeling to your outdoor? Look no further than Dogrose. It’s hardy, evergreen and will tolerate part shade. What’s not to love?

This is a week by week diary of the growing, maintenance and harvesting dogrose.

Quick tips

• Sow 3-4 seeds into each module of a seedling tray
• Grows well for most of the year
• Seeds can be sown in Spring and Autumn, directly outdoors
• Can be grown in part shade
• Hardy and evergreen shrub

Growing diary

I started this diary, and took the cutting, on the second week of December.

Week 1: Taking the cutting

The first step is to find yourself a dogrose, either out in the wild (like I did), or have a look on forums and ask around to see if anyone has one which you can take a cutting from. Just make sure you have permission if it’s obviously an “owned” plant.

Grab yourself some sharp, clean, secateurs and take a cutting.

Ideally, cut a section which had flowers on this year or has some hips growing. It should also have a few lengths of at least 8 inches which you can divide off into pots.

The next step is to take this home and prepare a few cuttings to place into pots. Start by filling a few small pots with compost.

Then, divide your cutting into shorter lengths. They should be at hands length long and should end with either a short side shoot or leaf.

Trim off any other side shoots or leaves. You should be left with a short thorny stick with a leaf or two on the end.

Dip the end, which will root into the soil, into some rooting compound and push into your pot:

Put these on a tray and place outside in a sheltered area.

Week 2 onwards: Now we wait

Now, we need to let the cutting do it’s thing, at it’s own pace.

Don’t let the compost dry out, otherwise, there’s not much to do at this stage.

I’ll update this page with the dogrose’s progress. If you have any questions or tips, please put them in the comments so we can all benefit from your experience.

Article written on Dec 08, 2020
Updated Jan 27, 2021