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Oh, generally speaking, it's best NOT to feed a new rose until after the first flush of bloom has come and gone.

I took a couple of photos of my SH today.

I should have taken a closeup of one of the tips, but they are all the same, not a sign of a bud in sight.

Few of my roses get routinely fed every year, and I have quite a few of the closely spaced HTs that get pruned to the ground every spring that Michael mentions. I'm basically a lazy gardener, and while I have the intent of fertilizing my (now nearly) 1000 roses, by June I'm just too ready to sit back and enjoy the roses without a lot of work. What I definitely AM diligent about, though, is feeding the soil everywhere in the yard. I keep a layer about 3" thick of leaves on the beds all the time, which adds texture if not exactly a ton of nitrogen to the soil. I also distribute alfalfa hay around the rose beds once a year for a shot of nitrogen, but I'm not 100% systematic about even that. If I'm really diligent, I'll throw some 10-10-10 fertilizer and Ironite around the well-established roses once a year, but that maybe only happens every two years.

I do water once a week if it gets dry in August, though heaven help us I'd like to "un-water" the yard this spring (wettest May ever in recorded history here). I can get by without the fertilizing because I have good loamy soil that retains nutrients, and the newly planted roses are always supplemented with a handful or so of manure, compost, and alfalfa, so some of that probably supports the surrounding established roses everywhere. As others have mentioned, this all changes with sandy soils or very dry climates.

By all means, if the roses you have bloom well without feeding, it's not a necessity, but the usual rule of thumb for most roses is they'll bloom better if we add some nitrogen to them periodically during heavy bloom seasons. In many places, they'll also bloom fine without it just not perhaps as much, it all depends. In my world, the fewer "have-to" things I keep about my roses, the more fun they are. I "have to" get them planted, keep them watered and mulched, and cut out dead and diseased canes. Anything else is gravy for me.

Cynthia

You can probably get away with benign neglect in a place that gets regular rain but in arid places that's not going to work. Yes, there are roses growing all over the world in abandoned plots for centuries with no care but unless those types of roses are what you grow you're going to have to give them some minimal care at least. I think you'll find that with a little bit of watering and fertilizing your roses will bloom and grow even better!

I have the same problem with my knockout roses! They're not new transplants and seem to get plenty of sun and water. Not fertilizing yet this year. Blooms look great but leaves are totally brown. Would like some advice as well...

What growing zone and state you in Gretchen Weaver? Thanks

Can you post clear pics of your problem?

Have you had a lot of rain recently?

Soil to dry?

Was anything sprayed on your rose leaves lately?

Anyone spray weed killer recently that may of drifted?

Thanks Beth, I had Pink Gruss but had to shovel prune. Couldn't keep her clean when I went no spray. At one time I had a good 600 roses but I wasn't getting any younger. RRD or the shovel for disease took out most of those. Lost some due to Dr. Huey root stock which won't grow for me. This rose and Rosarie d'hay are the last 2 left from the early days.

Much appreciated guess ozmelodye, but not a flower carpet. I have the flower carpet series.

I'm nearly positive it is a polyantha. At one time I had many of them, The flower is semi double but many singles at the end of the year, No sent, shiny foliage a mix of larger leaves and small. The color is variable from this lighter pink to much darker but always has some cream in the center. The flower matches La Marne perfectly but I'm not seeing any smaller leaves mixed in with the larger leaves on help me find. She grows up but very full so that you can not see the ground underneath.

Hi everyone! New to this forum but everyone seems so knowledgeable. Feel free to chime in on this one. Welltraveled-I am in zone 5 mid mich also and am trying to grow the eden rose for the first time. It's my first rose so all of this is new to me. Do you do anything to help it winter? Cover or mulch over? Haven't planted it yet, debating on a spot. Does it spread out much and how much climbing do you get?

There is a Pink Eden Climber just being introduced, and a thread recently discussed it with the man who discovered Pink Eden (patent name is Margaret Mae, or something similar; named for his mother). I don't think he hybridized this rose, so it may have been a sport. It's on HMF with a few recent photos. It's being sold by Meilland, and they are starting European sales and on to Japan, I guess. Diane

Very true, Conserve SC is one brand, but it is the one with the higher concentration of Spinosad. Most other cheaper products are much weaker and less productive.

If brand A has 2% active ingredient, and brand B has 4%, the label for brand B will call for twice as much water per TB of product, so you end up with the same concentration of active ingredient in the tank.

My vote is Livin Easy. I have one and it looks very similar.

'Heaven on Earth' will bleach out to pink and then cream as it ages. The buds are globose before opening. Blooms are very large, blowsy, and nodding. It is usually very fragrant. Foliage is glossy like that. 'Livin Easy' is more colorfast.

Easy elegance Roses are great. I have Centennial which is a bit hard to find. All of their roses are own root and have a two year guarantee. The Centennial Rose went through this brutal New England winter with literally no damage, even under five feet of heavy snow and cold temps and over wintered in a pot sunk in the ground. It has a ton of buds already and the flowers are gorgeous. The only drawback is lack of scent. I bought several different bands from Northland Rosarium who seemed to have the best variety. Macy's Pride is another which gets rave reviews as do others in the line bred by Pim Limg. I purchased Music Box, Sweet Fragrance, Champagne Wishes and others from NR, they were adequate size for bands and very healthy. These are breeder photos of Sweet Fragrance and Centennial Rose.

Sharon

Marie Pavie is quite reliable and low care:

Heat will quicken the change from tan to lavender. I wouldn't worry about the color of koko loco just yet, because it is likely to behave differently according to weather.

James, how old is your plant? Are you actually sure they sent you the right thing?

As Ann says, it's possible to have an outbreak of downy mildew at a garden center in cool weather, when plants are crowded and sprinkled too much. But you say you don't see any dark spots or disease symptoms. If the plant started shedding within a week of planting, maybe it is just transplant shock.

Also, for no apparent reason, RU can develop a scattering of leaves mottled yellow and green and then dropping.

It does looks like it. I start dropping and leaves turn yellow but otherwise the canes looks healthy. The lady at the nursery noticed it too and didn't know why since this is the only variety that did that. Now that you mentioned it, it did start dropping a few leaves when I left it in the pot for 2 weeks and continued when I planted it. I will wait and see what happened. Thanks for the info.

Thanks, Nick! We are warmer than you because of the big lakes. I'm on the water and that effects my weather a lot. We've had some day in the 80s already and this week will be steady in the 70s. Not saying we don't get our ups and downs, we do, but I think we're still a tad warmer than WI.

Congrats! It's been a longer-than-usual wait for blooms this year in many parts of the country. I do feel for those growers who've had to wait so long.

Seil, Elle was first to bloom in my NJ garden as well. :-)

Does it go back to when there were no photographs, only text and that text was un-correctable....once you type something, it's there or you start over?

Apparently gardenweb was first registered on "Creation Date: 28-oct-1995"

http://www.whois.com/whois/gardenweb.com

The oldest message on the first web page saved is dated Jan 4, 1996 (at the bottom you have to do many "next 30 posts to reach the one below).

http://web.archive.org/web/19961205054355/http://gardenweb.com/forums/roses/nph-ind.cgi?n=781

I grow 23 Knock out rose trees in pots, they're doing well. You can alway grow KO rose trees in pots . :-)

With some deeper pruning when dead heading they should be fine. The pots will need to be BIG if you want to keep them in them for a long time. Use large pots with lots of drainage holes, no trays under them please, and a good quality potting soil and they should be fine.

The one I just ordered is La France Cl. Sara-Ann, Is yours a Climber?

Yea sorry, hybridized does sound much better lol. I just think that it's fascinating we've bred different roses to have traits of our liking. Some cultivars that we'd never find in the wild, and that would have a hard time existing in the wild on their own too. That thought and effort were put into the cultivar's creation to have specific characteristics, that's what I find most luring about them.