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| Hey there everyone, My parents' home is being fumigated next week and there are around a dozen roses I fear will be removed by the company Most of the roses in question are not yet fully mature save for a Night Owl and a Climbing Sun Flare. I bought some 15 gallon containers in case I would need to dig them up. They are planted very close to the home and will likely have to be either hacked back to the ground or removed. What would you do in this scenario? This is a frostless zone, so there is no problem letting them grow the rest of the year into winter, but would they survive being cut back so severely now when they're already reeling a little bit from the warmer, summer conditions? Should I go ahead and dig them out, keep them in 5 gallon or 15 gallon pots, and plant them again soon/in the fall/when? I'm unsure how I should deal with this scenario. I will only be able to dig them out this weekend, but my mom can prune them back next week sometime before the tent goes up if that is a better strategy. A few in question would be difficult to replace and it would be sad to lose the mature climbers, but worst comes to worst, it just means a chance to redesign with other varieties. My instinct is to cut back the hybrid teas (probably half of the dozen) close to the house, pot the climbers into 15 gallon containers, and pot the others into 5 gallon containers. The hybrid teas were all grafted, 5 gallon sized shrubs when planted. Thanks for your advice. I'd love to hear from people who have had to move roses in less than ideal conditions. Jay |
This post was edited by ArbutusOmnedo on Tue, Aug 19, 14 at 4:26
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| I have had to pot up many of my roses this year. The county is doing a drainage project and digging up a lot of my yard. Depending on the size of the roses, a 5-15 gallon pot would work. I have staged these roses in a part of the yard that is not going to be dug up. It was a lot of work to dig up some of the older, larger roses, but I was able to do it. You will probably want to cut back the roses as they will have some transplant shock. I have two that I'm watching, but the rest are doing just fine. For the climbers, you can cut them back and they will grow back. I've done that when my house was being painted and they were fine. As far as replanting, if they are in pots, watered regularly, they should be fine. I will probably replant some of my roses this fall. But some won't happen until next year. |
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| I would go for a little pruning back and potting up myself. My fear is that even with severe pruning back their may get stepped on or otherwise damaged by the crew. I lost a couple of rhodies that way when a window installing crew wasn't at all careful about where they stepped or put things like ladders and such. If you pot them you can keep them well out of harms way. |
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| I never heard of a company coming in and destroying plants like this, not to mention telling you to remove them. I would threaten them with their lives if they harmed a plant of mine. I would say cover the plants with tarps and tell them to work around them. In Texas, digging up and repotting this time of year would be very hard for a rose. I have had a fence by my air conditioning units repainted that had a gorgeous climbing rose on it - I put a tarp over it after I had tied the canes up as well as I could and told them if they hurt that rose, they were not going to like the outcome. They were very careful! My experience, for the most part, has been that if you don't get your point across to workmen in the strongest terms possible, they wont care. If you can keep an eye on them, so much the better. Unless this work involves tearing out part of the house, I cant imagine what fumigating [which to me means spraying] could involve to have to remove or whack back roses. Maybe you could cut out all but the biggest canes.......still - you [or your parents] are paying them, not the other way around - they should take care to protect what is there. Good luck to you.......hopefully it wont be too bad....oh, and maybe you should water really well before they start.....Those guys should consider themselves lucky they aren't working for me........ |
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- Posted by ArbutusOmnedo (My Page) on Thu, Aug 21, 14 at 2:29
| The issue is that their house is being tented and certain plants right up against the house make securing the tent down either impossible or very difficult. I can't imagine the plants would cope well with being exposed to whatever chemicals are involved either as they would be enclosed in that environment if nothing is done. I was surprised by this policy as well, but it seems to be somewhat standard from what I've found. My mom is certainly invested in the plants at risk and has voiced her concerns to the company. I'll be there this weekend if it's determined any need to come out. A few camellias are close enough that they may be at risk as well, but I think they should be fine. The company does advise watering any plants near the home very thoroughly before fumigation both because you won't have access to them for several days and because it apparently helps limit the effects of any chemicals leaching into the soil...or something like that. I couldn't tell you exactly why, but that will be happening. They've had a lot of work done on the house of late including painting, so last weekend I took all the climbers off ties to the house and tarped them to make painting easier Jay |
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| We had this done, years ago, and yes -- they said plants right up against the house would need to be removed, or might die as a result of seeping chemicals. The only thing we had in jeopardy was creeping fig, which I WANTED to kill. In fact, I cut the d*mned stuff off at the "roots," to make sure. I figured that, when the tent came off, the fig climbing on the house would be dead. NO SUCH LUCK. The chemicals didn't bother the stuff at all. In fact I believe they fed on it. Jeri |
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| I was told when we tented Mom & Dad's house was to absolutely soak the soil around the plants, as the gas getting to the root system is what kills them. Wet soil prevents the gas from going much into the soil. We did soak. The established plants were all fine. A few newly planted ones were dead within a day. I have no conclusions about that to offer--just my experience. |
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