Thank you for reassuring me ,I couldn’t bear it if he’d done them a mischief! As it is he said he’d composted what he took off and some of them were still flowering so they are worm food now . He does make lovely cheese on toast but 😀
Hi rose folk, Can I get your views on something? I have just lifted and relocated my Tuscany Superb which was a new bare root in Mar this year planted with the graft buried as usual. It has done well and seemed reasonably happy where it was. I didn't really want to lift it but felt compelled to as I'd planted it too close to a large hardy fuchsia, the size of which I had underestimated, which was crowding it out and forcing it to grow with a list. So I lifted it, rotated it 180 deg, and replanted it barely 2 ft further away, but with the graft now just above ground level. So my question is, have I replanted it too high and maybe should I lift and replant it lower as it was previously or will be OK like this? ETA: perhaps I should add that I planted it higher as I understand that Gallicas are prone to suckering readily to form a thicket, which I'm not sure that I want it to do
@Mr. Vine Eye ...thank you ! and the same to you, I meant to say earlier.. nice to have sons, I often wish I had a son come visit, dig the garden, put a new kitchen in, that sort of thing..
Im a bit behind here but just reading through the last few pages. Good news Marlorena!
Foul weather here, LOS, brother Cadfael, the hulthemias, rhapsody in blue and a few others have blooms, but im mostly picking for vases as the foul weather is turning even the toughest of them to mush. LOS really is outstanding though... ive got it as a short climber up an obelisk and its covered in flowers and shrugging off the rain. Ive been pruning any whippy long shoots that have finished as its rather windy out. Ive got green steel canes in most of mine to help protect them as well.
@bcpathome it is said not to compost any rose leaves as it could harbour the fungal spores and return it to the ground if we mulch roses with the same compost.. Now I am not sure if those compost can be used for other plants...
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He does make lovely cheese on toast but 😀
Can I get your views on something?
I have just lifted and relocated my Tuscany Superb which was a new bare root in Mar this year planted with the graft buried as usual. It has done well and seemed reasonably happy where it was. I didn't really want to lift it but felt compelled to as I'd planted it too close to a large hardy fuchsia, the size of which I had underestimated, which was crowding it out and forcing it to grow with a list.
So I lifted it, rotated it 180 deg, and replanted it barely 2 ft further away, but with the graft now just above ground level.
So my question is, have I replanted it too high and maybe should I lift and replant it lower as it was previously or will be OK like this?
ETA: perhaps I should add that I planted it higher as I understand that Gallicas are prone to suckering readily to form a thicket, which I'm not sure that I want it to do
...thank you ! and the same to you, I meant to say earlier.. nice to have sons, I often wish I had a son come visit, dig the garden, put a new kitchen in, that sort of thing..
.. the graft is no problem at all.. I might want to secure that tall cane from windrock though..
Foul weather here, LOS, brother Cadfael, the hulthemias, rhapsody in blue and a few others have blooms, but im mostly picking for vases as the foul weather is turning even the toughest of them to mush.
LOS really is outstanding though... ive got it as a short climber up an obelisk and its covered in flowers and shrugging off the rain.
Ive been pruning any whippy long shoots that have finished as its rather windy out. Ive got green steel canes in most of mine to help protect them as well.