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I once saw a show about how they 'make' florist roses. It was that 'how it's made' show. The roses are grown in a greenhouse. They are constantly fed fertilizer (probably a miracle gro type) through irrigation. The workers wear hazmat suits and spray them constantly. They are all about 8 feet tall when they cut them. It was quite interesting, but also informative as to why these roses, for the most part, would not do well in a garden.
FYI the 2g pots are on sale at HD for $8. At the apt complex we are pulling out our side bank lawns (not just not watering them) to put back some color at the top we are doing salvias and pops of Iceberg (mostly white but once I find a deal on brilliant pink those too)
Congratulations on your new rose! Looks totally rescuable! I would NOT bare root it, or trim it at all until it recovers a bit - it needs all of the energy from leaves and canes it can get, and it needs its little feeder roots which would be destroyed by bare rooting. I would dig a hole the entire pot sized root ball it has now can fit in, plant it in the ground (or in a very large pot with potting soil if you cannot put it into the ground). I would just cut off the dead bits right now, and give it plenty of water (no food, no sprays). I would put some sort of shade cloth over it for a week or two.Then it will just sit there for a while, hopefully growing more roots. When it starts to put out new growth, after a few weeks, you can feed it gently. I see no reason why it would not recover completely and grow.
Jackie
I agree with everything Jackie said. If you decide to repot it instead of planting it in the ground do not use "grit", use a good quality potting soil. A gritty soil will not hold enough moisture and what this plant needs most right now is water. Go with a bigger pot with good drainage holes, good potting soil, keep it well watered but not soggy and find it some shade, particularly for the hottest part of the day.
Yes, you still need to keep the proper ratio for each fungicide. If you are great at math, you can probably mix them in one container at one time. I would have to use seil's method. I have enough trouble figuring out how to mix one. I used to have a certain measuring cup and marks on my sprayer and now I'm using a different product and I have to start from scratch....
Oh wow Kublakan, Thanks. I totally will. What great advice. I'll stop by sometime this week (eeeekk :)
Our Lady does not have big flowers Jack, they are small but they are plentiful. They also hold their form for a good amount of time and last well as a cut flower. As I recall they she also had few bug problems. But I guess that may depend on where you live/put her/how many pests you have in your garden, etc.
Our Lady is one of those roses that gets so full of flowers that you have to stop and ask what kind of rose it is.
I'd like to share about an Intrigue! This was 2 Springs ago, but hang on - it gets better.
Anyway, I got one and planted it in a large decorative pot. That beautiful perfum-ey wonder bloomed about 5 times. I'm in the desert southwest, long growing season. She was so beautiful. Grew her on the morning-sun-side of the house.
Well the following Spring the aphids came, as they do, and I don't use sprays anywhere here and usually Nature takes over and either birds, or enough ladybugs, etc. take care of the aphids. Well, I didn't watch closely enough, and be darned if they didn't kill that rose.
So here we are 2 years later and after 2 years of lamenting (I truly missed that rose), today I found 2 of them at Walmart. Both had blooms on and oh how I have missed that fragrance. These will go into the ground this time and for the first time this year, we had to spray a couple of things due to aphids. Hated to do it but I will not lose another plant to them.
Tried the Dawn treatment, hosing them off daily, nope. They were still winning. I won this battle!
Yep, we had a long coolish spring and the daffodils lasted forever - long enough to overlap with the early tulips for quite a while. Then May hit, with torrential rains so far, and WHOOSH all the tulips disappeared almost overnight, even the ones that are usually May bloomers. We counted a dismally awful 12 inches of rain starting at 8 pm and lasting all night. I was up all night wet-vacuuming the basement (my husband had to call it quits at 1 am), and the news has said at least half the basements in town are flooded, even ones that don't usually get anything. Sure wish we could send some of this rain to California - particularly with more rain expected this weekend.
Cynthia
Compared to the hardened roses that I've bought on Dr. Huey, this is a normal occurrence for an older bush. It always amazes me when basal breaks shoot from old wood like this.