give it to me. one day, out of the blue, my husband looked at that freshly cut rose in my hand when we got home and decided that he was going to root that stem. well, it rooted in that glass of water after a good long time. it grew roots! my husband planted it in the back yard.
the original rose bush that belonged to his friend was planted in his friend's front yard back in 1978. my husband got that stem to root, grow and produce those beautiful flowers just a couple years ago. they smell beautiful too, but then, our bush is an off-spring of a bush 40 