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If the leaf is still green, even though it has holes in it, it is still capable of feeding the plant so you can leave those. If there's nothing left but a skeleton you can remove those since there isn't enough left to do any good really. Anything that has begun to yellow can be removed because it's no longer functioning. Clean up anything on the ground to keep things neat but it doesn't make much difference as far as preventing diseases. When you dead head you can prune a little deeper to take off some of the damaged areas. The plant should begin to regrow quickly at that time anyway.
What Seil said. Anything green continues feeding and shading the plant. A rose bush (like most other plants) is the perfect "commune". As long as any part contributes at least as much as it requires and benefits the entire organism, the plant retains it. Once any part requires more resources than it provides, the plant sheds it. Thinking of the entire this way should also make it easier when thinking of "blind growth", those shoots which form leaves but no flowers. Every leaf feeds the plant. If the plant forms leaves but no flowers, doesn't it stand to reason it's because the plant needs FOOD or shade, rather than attempts to reproduce? Kim
John Davis. It will be tip hardy for you in your zone and it is very nearly thornless. In addition, it wants to grow more as a large mounding shrub that wants to be wider than tall, although it can be tied up to a support for greater height if desired. Once established, it should have little issue covering the 8-10ft area of fenceline.
Thanks rross.
It not sunny anymore here for the last 3 weeks. I hope this helps my rose.
I was worried about the fused leaflets.... Hope its not some virus! Do you see it with Bellaroma/ Love & peace? I've heard of blind shoots with these 2 roses... but fused leaflets???? And many of them, on different branches!!! I wonder what that means.
I have 3 cl pinkies around my arbor and at least one is in partial shade. They were planted this past spring and have taken off like gang busters. I am amazed at how fast thy have grown, they were in one gallon containers when planted and now are getting close to six feet tall, seems like I am constantly tying a new cane that sprouted up overnight. So far I have had only one big flush of blooms but I figure that's because it's so busy growing. It's supposed to bloom non stop once it's established. Good luck on picking a climber, I really am impressed with cl pinkies vigorous growth and so far have no complaints.
I have a fence with quite a few climbers on it at the edge of my part shade garden, and some of those are worth a try. On the lighter pink side are Blossomtime and Compassion, medium pink would be Madame Bovary, and dark pink so far are Laguna and Cherryade. In another part of my yard, Nahema is reasonably happy in part shade and the blooms are to die for - medium pink and Austin-like full blooms. Clair Matin also seems to like part shade, but she's at most a semi-double. If you want to see at least a few of these in action, I have a thread about my "back 40" circulating with the first picture showing the shade climbers.
As for hybrid musks, they do well in shade and part shade, and Lavender Lassie is by far the best of them for large fluffy blooms. Many of them are pink, and they might climb in your zone - Heavenly Pink is a white/light pink variation as the flowers fade, and Gartendirektor Otto Linne and Excellenz von Schubert are a more bright pink color. They seem to want to climb and all bloom at least off and on for me all season. Wilhelm is a darker pinkish red, but I have mine as a large 6-7 foot shrub - I don't know if it would climb. Awakening definitely climbs, but it tends to go white as it fades and you already have its counterpart New Dawn.
Hope this helps!
Cynthia
How wonderful! A mow and blow guy stepped on a band of Belle Epoque about two months ago that I had planted in the ground for my mom in January. I noticed some shoots popping up from that spot a couple weeks ago. Since no other roses -especially grafted roses- have been in that spot before or are close enough to be a sucker, I assume it is Belle Epoque showing new signs of life. There's always a slight glimmer of hope with roses!
Jay
Thats so great!
Had a similar thing happen w/ me with my new john davis rose this summer, dog stepped on it and broke the cane clean off to the ground. I dug it up and potted. It's already set up new growth from the roots. I am so happy and glad yours survived! Yay for strong rose babies. :o)
Take a look at Ascot, which is highly perfumed dark red. The best thing about the bloom is not "classically" highcentered (which does not appeal to me for purely random personal preference) and is cabage-like. The bush (mine on multiflora rootstock) is extremely vigorous, but does get blackspot. The growth in its two year residence in my garden shows it is mixture of small climber, ht and shrub, which, to me, makes it more interesting. It is cold hardy here in Essex County.
Nadadoll posted spectacular Ascot photos. She faces different disease pressure than us, but the pictures show the potential of this rose.
The only other red HT I have experience growing is Firefighter. I cannot seem to be able to get it going. Still a one cane dwarf after two seasons. Other than not cold hardy here, it ought to be a good HT here, at least on paper.
Don't know the answer to you question. BD is borderline hardy here and my own root plant died to the ground last year. You might want to plant a bit deeper just in case yours is grafted. It seems to be heat lover, and my guess is that you will get better performance if it is in full sun (and perhaps near a wall?). Don't think mine is getting as much heat as it wants.
I bought it in Spring and I do not like it sitting in the pot. I just planted near my shed, facing the west side. On the east side of the shed, I planted some other roses. I know west facing is not ideal, but the rose has to go somewhere.
I'll wait to see how it grows. I may want to move it later on to a more permanent location and that is a different story.
Thanks Sharon. I wasn't comfortable it wasn't viral. I shared the photos with Malcolm Manners, whose Fortuniana it is, and he confirmed it was something it could do during extreme vegetative activity. It was growing very quickly due to the temps and available water. I doubt it would have continued because while the temps remained, the water didn't. Kim
I just found this one on HMF. Great Balls of Fire. Kim
Here is a link that might be useful: Great Balls of Fire
michael is right. Get a pair of long handled loppers and start chopping. It's the fastest way. You may even find that after you lop off a lot of top growth, you want to keep both rose bushes. They look very healthy, but are a bit overgrown.
Painting RU on a stump is not going to poison anything (except the stump of course) You can try to dig up the root ball, but if that is not possible, RU can help.
rross,
What about the Kordes Fairy Tales? I have Kosmos and it is a champ in 9B . About 18 to 24 inches, very disease free, very full with shiny green foliage, and it blooms like crazy for most of the year. I am so crazy about this rose that I have ordered Floral and Elegant for September delivery. It does well in the hottest part of our year.
andreark
Peter, I had Pink Peace many years ago and it died off one winter. This is the one I bought this spring to replace it with.
Yes, it is blooming now. In Michigan it's the height of rose season and most of my roses are blooming. Things are doing pretty well considering the long cold spring we had.
As far as I can tell I do not have spider mites on any of my roses. I do have some pretty big spiders that like to make webs between the pots though. I don't bother much with them because they help keep a lot of the bad bug populations down. But I don't see any in that picture.
You are right, Seil!
After I zoomed 200 % to see more clear the picture,the web like white dots on the petal are water drops.
Good job! Congratulations!
This post was edited by gardentiller on Tue, Jul 15, 14 at 14:27