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In my garden, the general rule for spacing roses is 2-3 feet apart (from one base to the next base)--depending on how wide the rose will supposedly grow when mature.
Never prune roses so severely unless they are suffering from freeze damage after a severe winter.
Fortunately, reasonably healthy roses will jump back (if allowed to) and start growing and blooming (with time) like champs again--so you have some beautiful roses to look forward to.
Let us know how it goes. : )
Kate


La Reine
I thought I would go ahead and post some of my babies from bluegirl here since others are :) They seem really happy here. I just potted up pink clouds and cecil brunner spray (not pictured) into 3 gallon pots. They all have such awesome root systems and outgrew the bands that I mail ordered from nurseries. I think bluegirl should start her own nursery!

Archduke Charles

Pink Clouds

summers rhythm makes a good point that the first flush needs deadheading if you want good repeat. You can do this casually with hedge shears, so it's not a terrible chore unless you have to get on a ladder. Don't worry where you snip, just get rid of the hips.

Wow that looks very cool Elks. Beautiful and healthy too. Good choice growing against the red bricks because it made the rose really pops out. Love the way it grows over the window, so the rose can be appreciated on the inside as well. If it does well in London, Ontario than Toronto shouldn't be a big problem. Thanks!
Thanks guys, I will write all your important points down so when I do decide to grow this rose, I will have a good start.

Ttrying to grow roses in sandy Florida soil. I am starting to see Ken's point....I'm quite sure I would have time to enjoy them once I have the watering system set up..I think...or..maybe after I buy the fertigation thingy..or maybe after I amend the soil a little more so that I do have a bloom or two to enjoy...

Considering that your rose is already fully leafed out, I assume that you are in a warm part of the U.S. Please keep us informed if the symptoms disappear in hot weather (i.e. is this a temperature sensitive virus) and what the dealer reply to your inquiry is.

It's impossible that you could get enough of a rootball to support all that foliage. It would have to be cut back a whole lot anyway.
Just think, wouldn't you be happy to be receiving a bare-root standard in a big box from Edmunds? Cut it back about half-way and strip the leaves before digging.


I found Gene Boerner in Home Depot. They had a bunch of bagged roses.
I should add that I bought Golden Showers about 12 years ago as a bagged rose. It's still going strong and is one of my best performers. It's always the first to bloom and this year was no exception.

If you sign up for their weekly emails you can find out the moment they arrive. That's what I did and when I arrived they had not even set them out yet. The guy went to the back and rolled them out for me and I got first pick. I was very excited!
I got Tiffany and so far it looks amazing. She's given me a few flushes and is budding again already. Oklahoma is doing really well too. Looking huge and very healthy. They have all bloomed at least once. Ore gold is going on her third flush now as well. Sun downer is the only one that seems to be struggling a bit. But I think it's from lack of water. I need to put her in a bigger pot. Things are pretty dry here right now so I have to water every other day or so. The ones in the ground look great though.


Glad someone mentioned toxoplasmosis! As a pregnant gardener, a neighborhood cat using my yard would outright stop me from any gardening for at least a season. It is not something to be messed around with and I'd be furious if I was banned from my garden because you can't be bothered to keep your pet off my property!

If the cats are wild, trap them and send them to SPCA. If they're your neighbors, trap them and give them to the animal control cops, the owners have to pay a fee to get their cats back, I think it's $45 each for my town. It's easy to say, hard to do. One of my neighbors cat always in my yard, they're good people, so the cat just becomes part of my garden......still not a cat person.







Plants can't use fertilizer until they have a good amount of green foliage open. Since available nitrogen is transient in the soil, it can be wasted if applied too early. If you just have red shoots now, you can apply organic fertilizer, but I would wait a couple of weeks to apply manufactured fertilizer.