@owd potter ...yes very good news... that's not rootstock... you have a bona fide cultivar coming along there... looking forward to blooms.. thanks for the pictures to clear that up..
@Marlorena My thoughts exactly. If Nollie got his from TCL as well I suspect we were sent duds. The roses I bought from the various U.K. suppliers, while considerably more £££, all had much more robust canes. Well, a case of you get what you pay for?
@Omori ..I wonder if you were both sent 'own root' roses.. I remember Nollie asking me if his rose was own root, and I thought at the time it was grafted, but a weak looking graft, small roots.. could be it was own root after all, or, budded onto a different rootstock that we don't normally use here... you never know quite what you're getting with TCL that's the drawback..
@Omori, @Marlorena, it was twice the height with twice the canes and budding and leafing up nicely, then we had a very cold snap and rain, since then, well, you can see (and yes that’s another bit dying off). I certainly don’t think it was laxa and there was no obvious graft, so it could very well be own root, I did wonder. It was from TCL, but I must have have had 30 roses from them and this is the first I’ve had problems with. Oh well, it was free, a replacement for another rose which was in stock, then suddenly not. Since they didn’t charge me for it, I can’t really complain!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
A quick update. Crocuses and hellebores: The front garden - I tidied the edge of the border and added new mulch. Souvenir de St. Anne's. Reine des Violettes. Pots: Blackberry Nip and Eye of the Storm. New growth from the base - Paul Transon and Purple Skyliner. Most progressed - Saphir and Chippendale.
@Marlorena sorry to hear you had such a horrid time after your jab and hope you're fully recovered now.
@Omori thanks for the warning. One of our dogs is the main culprit for getting into pots that smell. The ones I have mixed manure in he actually climbs into to go toilet and the others he leaves alone.
I picked up some rose specific Vitax this weekend and as the weather was so good I managed to top dress and fertilise all the pots at the front of the house. Was nice to see that a couple of my climbers have basal canes coming up.
My biggest job will be the flower beds in the garden and digging up all the acorns that have rooted there. I should have done them all in the Autumn but had already filled a 140ltr garden waste bin with acorns. There were just so many last year and we couldn't even sit on the decking as they were coming down constantly.
Acorns and subsequent oak seedlings are a particular bete-noir of mine too @poppyfield64, being surrounded by oak forest. Even the tiny sproutlings have such strong, deep roots!
Decided to defy the drizzly rain this afternoon and fed my potted roses with miracle grow granules, mulched my oranges and lemons bed, edged the new rose bed and raised the level of the core-edge metal edging, which the rampant grass and weeds were laughing at - barrier, what barrier?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I feel for you @Nollie....one tree is bad enough and overhangs a lot of the garden. I was really surprised at how long the roots were. At least 7 inches or longer!! Apparently we had a mast year so hopefully will be a few years before we have another. It's a shame what I want to root doesn't do as well as the acorns.
@D0rdogne_Damsel ...you won't get it all out in one piece, so just dig around it and sever any long tap roots aiming to get at least a foot or two of root left... you will be bare rooting the rose, so there's rarely much of a rootball to be had.. leave the rest of the roots behind, they're not worth bothering over.. make it easy for yourself, there's no need to attempt to get too much out.. .. soak the rose in bucket... prepare new hole... cut back top growth to about 3 feet.. and wait until it shoots out again, then you may have to prune back a bit more to where the new good shoots are.. ...some bone meal or mycorrhizal [not both] would help, but I don't always use either..
..effectively you are starting out again with the rose... there's still time to do this even in your area I should think..
Thank you very much for such detailed advice. I shall attempt it tomorrow.
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...yes very good news... that's not rootstock... you have a bona fide cultivar coming along there... looking forward to blooms.. thanks for the pictures to clear that up..
..I wonder if you were both sent 'own root' roses.. I remember Nollie asking me if his rose was own root, and I thought at the time it was grafted, but a weak looking graft, small roots.. could be it was own root after all, or, budded onto a different rootstock that we don't normally use here... you never know quite what you're getting with TCL that's the drawback..
Crocuses and hellebores:
The front garden - I tidied the edge of the border and added new mulch. Souvenir de St. Anne's. Reine des Violettes. Pots: Blackberry Nip and Eye of the Storm.
New growth from the base - Paul Transon and Purple Skyliner.
Most progressed - Saphir and Chippendale.
@Omori thanks for the warning. One of our dogs is the main culprit for getting into pots that smell. The ones I have mixed manure in he actually climbs into to go toilet and the others he leaves alone.
I picked up some rose specific Vitax this weekend and as the weather was so good I managed to top dress and fertilise all the pots at the front of the house. Was nice to see that a couple of my climbers have basal canes coming up.
My biggest job will be the flower beds in the garden and digging up all the acorns that have rooted there. I should have done them all in the Autumn but had already filled a 140ltr garden waste bin with acorns. There were just so many last year and we couldn't even sit on the decking as they were coming down constantly.
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