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Sat, Sep 29, 12 at 18:27
| "Penelope" has not responded to pegging (which I initiated about six months ago); beautiful big canes held down horizontally did not produce new shoots.
Suggestions? or do some varieties simply not respond to pegging and I should give up? |
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- Posted by floridarosez9 10 (My Page) on Sun, Sep 30, 12 at 3:04
| The canes on my Penelope are so stiff it would be impossible to peg them. How did you manage it? Or are we talking two different Penelope's here? |
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| yep, mine are stiff but also, it does throw a couple of quite long canes which can be tied down early enough in the season. I wouldn't recommend doing this to penelope though as it is a rose which does better pruned into a more compact bush, to my mind. For a hybrid musk, I have always found it to be a little ungainly and best disguised with other plants such as clematis and tall foxgloves. How old is yours? I ask because it can take 4 years to attain a generous framework if you do want to let it grow on to look a little 'wild'. For the first 3 years, mine was quite embarrassingly clunky and is only now, at 5, beginning to develope a fuller graceful outline. |
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| I'm sure you'll get bloom on laterals next spring, and then some strong laterals that will need cutting back. Maybe it hasn't had enough water to grow much this summer. |
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| Thanks, all. My three Penelopes are mostly in the shade, so the canes don't get as huge as some I've seen--which is probably why I can peg them when they're still limber. Will do as you say and wait till next year: maybe it'll happen then! |
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