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| Sorry I don't know how to post all pics in one post so posted them separately. I know nothing about roses and only bought this one because the nursery was closing it's doors (retirement) and it was on sale. It was healthy when I bought it and it spent the winter with the pot buried, in a sheltered spot. When the leaves started to show I planted it in full sun with a good compost and mulched and it looked great for a while but it's suddenly looking terrible. Lots of buds forming all over, but the leaves are rapidly turning yellow with brown spots and the branches seem to be turning blackish and dying back from the tips. Please help .. I love this little weeping rose and just spent a week building her the perfect raised bed where she could shine with no other plants to steal her spotlit glory.. |
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| I haven't grown it, but Renae has the reputation of being a good rose that is less winter hardy than most climbers. If you are in eastern zone 7, this year's unusually hard winter would have damaged the canes. Black canes are probably dead, others may be injured internally. By now you should have vigorous new shoots coming off every healthy cane and setting flower buds. Instead I think I'm seeing a lot of blind growth--shoots that stopped growing without making a flower bud. Look for any small flower buds at the tips. You can mark blind shoots because the top leaf has matured. On a growing shoot, the top leaves are small, crinkled, and a different color, or there is a flower bud. Blind shoots occur because they were injured by an untimely freeze, or because the underlying cane was injured back in the dead of winter. The plant just needs to be pruned back. Roses can recover from being pruned all the way down, as I had to do this spring. Prune to healthy white center pith. Red spots are probably cercospora or spot anthracnose (fungal diseases, but not a big deal). Sorry to be so long-winded! Best, |
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| Thank you so much, I didn't see your response until today. I'm in the Pacific NW and we are in such a funny location we are either zone 7 or 8b, depending on the direction of the wind, LOL! We had a mild winter but I still did as you suggested and pruned the branches back. I also found a fertilizer/fungal treatment and dose it with that. Thanks again for your advice. |
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