we have a wildly prolific rose plant in our back garden, which puts forth fuschia blooms. i know that the more you prune a plant the faster it grows, but even with moderate pruning it is spreading and branching at a remarkable rate. i've taken to weaving its branches through the wire fence to make a sort of matted rose fence. it looks extremely beautiful, but also makes me think of germanic traditions in which briar rose is hedged in by thorns. i'd like to grow more roses so that i can plant them at regular intervals along the fence to make a proper wall of roses, but so far my stem cuttings haven't taken. how does one properly propogate roses from stem cuttings? i know about finding a leaf note and making a forty-five degree cut just below, and that it should be a stem on which the flower has faded, but i mustn't be doing everything right or they would have taken root by now. or should i try layering? i hear it works more effectively than cuttings? has anyone experience in rose propagation?