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Rooting Lady Banks Rose: Soil Layering Is Easiest

Check for sprouts under the mother plant—dig and move. Or soil-layer: bend a long shoot down, wound 8–12 inches from tip, apply rooting hormone, bury in trench, weight with brick. Sever in 3 months. Rooted by June.

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