Seriously? My goodness I can’t believe this. I have got to try this out. Hmm. Aren’t roses patented or something like that? I can’t imagine David Austen roses appreciating having their roses so easily propagated like that.
All my roses were David Austin roses - all shades of pink. We drove to Tyler, Texas, to get them. There were bush types in the main part of the garden, then all across the back wall were his climbing roses. The summer of 2011 killed all of them except for two bush types that refused to die. They are on their second blooms now and your pink ones look very much like mine. Many petals make beautiful roses.
I have Jobe’s rose food spikes coming to give them some food. There are two of the climbing ones on the back trellis that died down to a few small limbs but maybe the fertilizer spikes will save their lives. There is a bit of shade at one time during the day that reaches those two that are hanging on and that probably saved those limbs during 2011. The temp. then was 105-107 for over a month or more with no rain at all.
When I saw that rose stalk in that potato, I thought of my two David Austin bush roses and wondered if I could “clone” those roses using that method. David Austin would never know I did it since I have those high brick walls around my garden. Of course, he lives in England anyway, so he will never know.
Think of it as an "archival copy"; that provision is always somewhere in the EULA. *<];-')