22,152 Garden Web Discussions | Roses

whatever you decide, I found that horse manure helps to lessen the problems so I put a good layer down in the spring after removing old leaves from the ground.

I noticed a significant improvement, too, when I started using horse manure.

I've posted photos of some of the "untagged" roses in the ROSES forum.

As soon the other roses bloom, I'll post their photos, too.

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

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...

Planting morning glory from seed. I'm still paying for that little fiasco 10 years later.

Great picture!

An annual here in WI :(

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.

I haven't had a reply yet, but I will definitely keep you updated! And yes, I am in warmer weather, Florida 9a. I will let you know if the symptoms disappear.

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 know it's tough but it's for the best. They will grow back!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I turned them over and def small bugs with some white fuzzy webby substance on them. I'm going to try neem oil on them and see if it helps.

Washing the bush every day for three or four days would be more effective than neem (and doesn't have the potential to burn foliage in hot weather vwhen mites are most prevalent). Good luck.

Joe - that's a relief to read that your problem isn't like mine. That cold snap you mention could have done it. Hope you see new growth soon!

Update: Yes, it was the cold front wrecking havoc. The bush is filled with lil' shoots of green, so yay! Thanks for all of your help. :D

Amazing advice. Thank you!

I got a very ripe hip from our Paradise bush, and the seeds have been well-scrubbed and now in the fridge for stratification. Hopefully, I'll get a rose or three out of it. *crosses fingers*

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.

I have Stormy Weather it is in a prime spot but I am not to thrilled with this one, maybe this will the year for it but it is very stiff, tons of thorns and no rebloom. It is puting on some mass this year so maybe it will improve

Here's another update: The biggest of the three Purple Splashes that I planted last year is growing LIKE CRAZY. Seriously, its branches started to really spread a couple weeks ago, and it's now winding its way through the chain link fence I planted it next to. The second biggest is doing fine, but its branches aren't nearly as long as the biggest one--yet. And, of course, the third one...well, it died. :(

I'll take and post pics soon.

The bugs don't bother me and I just flick them away when they come close. They do lay a lot of eggs of very voracious eating larva and they are the problem. I just want to keep the larva from becoming bugs.

If you are talking about using Grub X or Milky Spore I don't think it would be a problem in a pot. Just read the directions very carefully and don't use too much. Because of the nature of pots things get flushed through quickly so it shouldn't be any problem.