Valentine's day brought a deluge of beautiful long stemmed red and white roses to my door, which overflowed my two vases, and spilled over into several jam jars around the apartment. After a few days I noticed that the roses nearer the windows were beginning to sprout.
After two weeks of glorifying in an orgy of roses, I decided it was time to dead head them. I left about half on a sunny window sill, and the other half I stuck in some plant pots with some hatchling sweet peas on the balcony (if the roses die, I figure the sweet peas need something to climb on).
I'm not giving these roses high odds. Everything I've read suggests that the roses should have been treat as cuttings from day 1 if I wanted them to live. Well, they have a chance. If they thrive, I will make them some space on the balcony. At two weeks, there are no roots.
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