Just a quick rose question, i'm new with roses and would like to know why you only buy bare root roses up until March. What happens if you buy and plant after March.
..because it's best practice to plant bare root roses while they are still in a state of dormancy... they will already be coming out of dormancy by early March time, so the end of the month is the usual time to finish bare root planting.. any later and they will be growing away and all that growth will die off if uprooted and replanted.. there's also more of a risk that the roots will dry out quicker... you can actually plant bare root roses any time of year if you are careful with them, but it's too much of a risk for vendors to sell them later than March, as more likelihood of failures and they wouldn't offer a guarantee on them..
However, with David Austin Roses you may notice they offer bare roots right up till the end of April .. This is because they keep them in cold storage.. when you receive them they will look as though they've been kept in the Arctic Circle with no leafing out whatsoever... this helps them to maintain a longer bare root season than other suppliers... these roses will catch up eventually but they will be well behind your other roses at this time of year...
I bought roses from DA at the end of March, perfectly dormant (just tiny buds) and from C & K Jones last Sunday, also perfectly dormant. On the other hand, I bought a rose from Peter Beales (end of March) and it arrived partially leafed and with roots almost dry. It doesn't do well at the moment, some leaves died, some are OK, there is also some cane dieback. I think it will be OK but I am not happy.
My earliest flowerers will be those with Tea rose ancestry.. they can be a bit odd or different looking from other roses... but some early roses to flower here are some specie types like the huge yellow 'Canary Bird'.. or those with 'Fruhlings...' in the name, which means Spring in German.. also large climbers like Banksian roses are early bloomers but not many people have these..
My earliest Austins look like being Munstead Wood, Vanessa Bell, The Herbalist or Desdemona...
Madame Alfrede Carrierre, this is the start of her second season, I didn't expect her to be quite so forward. I tried to count how many buds there are but lost count after 20. I hope she will be flowering all summer. This is an unknown one which we inherited growing in the driveway. It gets terrible blackspot and has been hacked down to the ground before now but this year it's looking quite healthy, it must have liked the heat last year. The flowers are large and bright pink (not my favourite colour but it looks good against the wall ) and it has buds already.
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..because it's best practice to plant bare root roses while they are still in a state of dormancy... they will already be coming out of dormancy by early March time, so the end of the month is the usual time to finish bare root planting.. any later and they will be growing away and all that growth will die off if uprooted and replanted.. there's also more of a risk that the roots will dry out quicker... you can actually plant bare root roses any time of year if you are careful with them, but it's too much of a risk for vendors to sell them later than March, as more likelihood of failures and they wouldn't offer a guarantee on them..
However, with David Austin Roses you may notice they offer bare roots right up till the end of April .. This is because they keep them in cold storage.. when you receive them they will look as though they've been kept in the Arctic Circle with no leafing out whatsoever... this helps them to maintain a longer bare root season than other suppliers... these roses will catch up eventually but they will be well behind your other roses at this time of year...
My earliest Austins look like being Munstead Wood, Vanessa Bell, The Herbalist or Desdemona...