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| After several months I just received my new Dublin Bay. I've only ordered and planted a dozen bare roots and this one is the first I've received with dead buds/no buds, two dead canes and I'm not sure what's going on with the marks on the cane (normal or signs of infection). I paid $28.50 (and another 15.45 S&H) to White Flower Farm. Yikes, I was really wanting this rose! Could someone please let me know if this is a quality bare root or if I should return it and look to another source. Edmunds has them in stock, would that be a better bet? For the price, I don't feel like nursing another plant.
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| It has several nice thick canes that look green on it. I would just cut off any of the dead wood and wait and see. It might just need some time to wake up. |
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| It's--decent, not outstanding. The graft looks solid, which is what you want, and it doesn't look slimy with blackened areas. Cut off the dead stuff. WFF, they have some kind of guarantee as I remember. Read what their guarantee is and contact them before it is expired if you are not pleased with performance. A guarantee is included in the price, so use it if you are not satisfied. |
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- Posted by farmerduck NJ (My Page) on Tue, Apr 8, 14 at 15:20
| To my untrained eyes, it looks a litte dried out and need some pruning/cleaning up. Otherwise, it has a good number of bud eyes and seem to have well-developed canes for a bareroots. For pruning bareroots for planting, take a look at Palatine's instruction video. http://palatineroses.com/planting-your-palatine-roses BTW -- The only DBs I saw in person are the several well-establisehd, gigantic (by local standard) DBs trained against the rose garden fence at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. They are breathtaking. As to prices, I have only ordered from DA US, Palatine, Pickering and Jung's. $28.5 per plant seems to put it at the higher end of the range, but WITHIN the range. |
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- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Tue, Apr 8, 14 at 15:50
| Thanks for posting the link to that video on planting. It was great. :-) |
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- Posted by farmerduck (My Page) on Tue, Apr 8, 14 at 16:21
| You are welcome. I realized that I have bought bareroots from Hortico and S&W Greenhouse (on-line) and Weeks (in a local nursery) as well. I think mid and lower twenty is the norm (or at least for the nurserise I have bought from). |
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| seil, hoovb, farmerduck - thanks for your input farmerduck - thanks for the link and I certainly hope my DB will be breathtaking too! The link was nice although I don't bury my grafts because I want the biggest bloom production possible and I can always cover with leaves during a rare cold blast |
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