Or build a planter around the pot, leaving the pot intact. Rose fertilizer inside the pot rim, regular fertilizer in the rest of the planter soil. Keeping the rose roots slightly restricted still may stop it from growing into one of those house-sized roses you see in older gardens.
How will the feeder roots, which start just below soil level, spread out or access the nutrients in the surrounding soil of the planter through a pot?! Sorry, pot has to go. Good tip re the towel @B3, don’t want any trips to A&E.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Thanks for all the replies! Basically I cant remember what it is exactly as it was given to me in that pot when my mum died 10 years ago, that photo is actually about 5 years old - I have attached one that shows it last year - it was cut right back in winter just there with thoughts of moving it. It does seem to like where it lives! Its not a climber though I know that, it became an out of control rose tree basically!
I think I will leave it where it is just now and consider the lovely idea of building the planter round it where it sits and that way its still able to thrive - but in a less wild way (my fault for being a terrible gardener!)
thanks for the constructive input
if anyone can identify the rose from the photos let me know! It was bright orange when it was small but its now cream
The rose is definitely preferring the ground to the pot. TheVanguard said:
I suppose the other option would be to break the pot and build a wood decking planter around it and leave it growing into the ground
Or build a planter around the pot, leaving the pot intact. Rose fertilizer inside the pot rim, regular fertilizer in the rest of the planter soil. Keeping the rose roots slightly restricted still may stop it from growing into one of those house-sized roses you see in older gardens.
See attached pics it was starting to go that way!!
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I think I will leave it where it is just now and consider the lovely idea of building the planter round it where it sits and that way its still able to thrive - but in a less wild way (my fault for being a terrible gardener!)
thanks for the constructive input
if anyone can identify the rose from the photos let me know! It was bright orange when it was small but its now cream