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DA Emma Hamilton Rose dropping in pot / some flowers dying before fully opening
OxfordColour
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Hi Everyone,
I'm after some advice / reassurance on a rose we bought earlier in the year. It's growing well and has bloomed 2-3 times but the shape wasn't as I had expected. It started off upright but as it's grown it's dropping and starting to look untidy.
I'm not wondering if I need to move it to a bigger pot and stake it? It's currently on a south facing patio and had some rose feed at the beginning of summer. I've also noticed that 2 out of the 3 blooms the flowers haven't properly opened and seem to die before they fully open.
I've attached 2 photos.. 1 to show that the flowers when they were blooming well and the plant as it is now.
Any advice would be most welcomed.
Kind regards..
I'm after some advice / reassurance on a rose we bought earlier in the year. It's growing well and has bloomed 2-3 times but the shape wasn't as I had expected. It started off upright but as it's grown it's dropping and starting to look untidy.
I'm not wondering if I need to move it to a bigger pot and stake it? It's currently on a south facing patio and had some rose feed at the beginning of summer. I've also noticed that 2 out of the 3 blooms the flowers haven't properly opened and seem to die before they fully open.
I've attached 2 photos.. 1 to show that the flowers when they were blooming well and the plant as it is now.
Any advice would be most welcomed.
Kind regards..
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I have DA roses in pots awaiting new homes in the ground in this new, to us, garden and give them a spring feed of pelleted chicken manure and then a dollop of organic food for flowering plants and occasional liquid feeds of tomato food between waterings. Have to remember that in a pot they are entirely dependent on your for food and water.
Thanks for posting such a good photo... I can tell you exactly what has happened there, and I'm sorry but your rose has suckered and you are nurturing the sucker... your original rose 'Lady Emma Hamilton' is still in there somewhere, if you look right in the middle of the pot you can see the foliage and a single bud from that rose.. all the rest of your rose is the wild rootstock, rosa canina 'Laxa', which all roses in this country are grafted onto....
You must cut out all that growth in order to keep your original rose, or it will die off completely...
Marlorena thank you so much for your diagnosis and suggested treatment . I'll carry these out over the weekend and keep my fingers crossed for a full recovery!
Thank you both again
..oh wow, you've got your rose back ! well done,... and you've got more left than I thought there would be... onwards and upwards for 'LEH'...
..just a word of further advice if you're still about... and there's no need to do anything about it now, but in future, it's best to bury that graft union, even in pots, because it encourages to roots to sucker if you leave it exposed...
..next time you'll know the difference.... take care...